Comments by "Dr Gamma D" (@DrDeuteron) on "The world depends on a collection of strange items. They're not cheap" video.

  1. like V said: it allows companies to calibrate their equipment.
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  2.  @lucretius8050  its not about matching their PB to NIST's PB. It's about matching their machine's measurement of NIST's PB to NIST's measurement of NIST's PB (which is defined as 'reality'), so when they measure their PB with their machine, they believe the answer.
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  3. I was in an old nuclear physics lab once and found an NBS (old NIST) jar of Standard Human Liver... perhaps the greatest wtaf? moment of my life.
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