A tonne is 1000kg any other measurement sounding like it is mental illness
A ton of bollocks, more like
Submitted 4 months ago by Gork@lemm.ee to science_memes@mander.xyz
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9point6@lemmy.world 4 months ago
abominablecosmonaut44@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Isn’t that just a megagram?
thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yes
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 4 months ago
We’re talking about a ton, not a tönnnèê
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Ñ
aulin@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The British spelling also looks a bit mental to be honest. But I’m sure it’s France’s fault.
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m just mad kg is the base unit, inconsistent with the rest. The prefixes for mass are all wrong (in my opinion).
Bring back the Grave.
For example then a joule could be G m^2^ s^-2^, no prefixes 🥹 (I dunno what the symbol for Grave would be)
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
kilogram isn’t a base unit, the gram is
like, look at the word kilogram
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 months ago
Victim blaming!
Like most things, this is Britain’s fault.
Zorque@lemmy.world 4 months ago
And Reagan, don’t forget Reagan scrapping plans to officially switch to metric!
bricklove@midwest.social 4 months ago
I bet Reagan made “soccer”, the British slang for association football, popular among Americans in his youth.
Buckshot@programming.dev 4 months ago
No, an imperial ton is 1016kg. America made up this all on their own
Malgas@beehaw.org 4 months ago
The long (British) and short (American) ton are both 20 hundredweights. The American hundredweight is exactly 100 pounds, while the British hundredweight is 112. You tell me which of those is more reasonable.
That said, both units did, in fact, come from Britain. The old Imperial system often used the same name for different units depending on what was being measured and for what purpose. Both countries passed laws to simplify and consolidate these measurements in the early 19th century, but in many cases chose different versions to standardize on.
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I mean, sort of. TIL this particular unit came from different definitions of hundredweight. Though, I’d argue this is still kinda of British origin (and the pound).
My favourite unit to pick on when someone doesn’t want to switch to metric because it’s “European” and they’re proud Americans, is BTU.
Why yes, how American, British Thermal Units haha
Don’t be me started on tons of refrigeration 0_0 that’s nightmare fuel
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
You want long tons which are 0.9979 ton.
pupbiru@aussie.zone 4 months ago
no, we want metric tons - or tonnes
a long ton is also not 1000kg; it’s 2240lb… a metric ton is 2204.6lb
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
late_night@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Good thing they gave the easy method below of multiplying by 907.2
sepi@piefed.social 4 months ago
Bro they don't teach that in Meth class
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Metric is just as bad. 2200 lbs. Why couldnt they make it 1000 of someting /s
enbyecho@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No no. That’s 907 and 46/249ths
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Makes perfect sense once you learn that a hundredweight is 112 pounds.
passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Anime name?
prex@aussie.zone 4 months ago
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