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From: "Brian N. Handy" <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com>
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>> You would weigh about 6 foot 9 inches.  (That's 173 cm for the
>> units-challenged out there....)

Actually, when you get to futzing with relativity, everything is measured
in terms of meters...so a standard white dwarf weighs in at XXX m, one
earth mass is YYY m, and so on...so when you get an answer, about 1/2 of
the total work goes into melding back in appropriate c's and h-bars until
you get an answer with the right units!

Brian