Saw a box watching Good Omens that had "Maximum Weight 15kg" printed on it.
Kilograms don't measure weight.
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ReplyDeleteMaybe they were confused in thinking the "Godless Metric" ?
ReplyDeleteYou are correct in that it is defined as "mass" but in the quotidian world, everyone (including moi) use it as a measure of weight when buying things sold by such measure.
ReplyDelete10 Kg is about 22.04 Lbs. So if Lbs are a measure of weight, then so is teh ole Kg.
The local deli counter would not understand if I asked for a mass of 1/2 Lb of ham, the brain would freeze at the word "mass".
I learned enough German to be able to buy food when backpacking there, zwei hundred funftich gramme (and points at the ham, cheese or whatever) bitte! Worked every time, back in the good old Deutschmark era. ;-)
But only at one gee...
DeleteMetric doesn't seem to have an actual unit for weight.
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DeleteSign your posts! It was a good reply too.
DeleteMetric unit for weight (force) is a Newton. 9.8N have a mass of 1kg on earth.
ReplyDeleteSenseless American unit of mass is a slug. One slug weighs 32 lb on earth.
Bert in Ohio
Considering that The Made it to the Moon and Back Measuring (M2M) has both a unit for weight (Pound) and force (Pound Force) can we really consider the Godless Metric unit for force the same as weight?
DeleteNever mind that a pound force is the force exerted by a pound at one gee... Imperial measurement makes more sense than Godless Metric because the definitions are perfectly circular arguments!