On 9/8/2009 6:27 PM Puckdropper spake thus:
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> > Morris Dovey snipped-for-privacy@iedu.com wrote >
> >>> Actually, volume and weight is where the metric system really shines. >
> >> Really? What is the metric unit for weight?
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> >>> Just yankin your chain. ;~)
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> >> Bakatcha :)
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> > Newtons. But no one uses Newtons (except certain PDA users). Mass is
> > usually confused for weight. Just wait until we find life on other
> > planets and go there, just wait!
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> > We'll probably be using a different measuring system by then. :-) >
> I know there's a certain amount of chain-yanking going on here, and that
> I myself am contributing to it. Nonetheless, it seems to me that this
> distinction here between weight and mass is a bunch of irrelevant
> nitpicking by pointy-headed scientist types. To *most* human critters on
> the planet, they're the same thing, practically speaking. Sheesh. >
> Who cares how much a bucket of cement weighs on the planet Snorlax? >
A: 1123 fnorgs.