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Bothered by Slugs? (LOL: not garden slugs)
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Posted on 09/14/2019 5:54:08 PM PDT by mrsmith
Why the British system is, well, horrible for physics... It's called the slug.
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TOPICS: Hobbies; Science
KEYWORDS: 14poundsperstone; clickbait; doofuses; drone; nonsense
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Doing drone thrust/HP calcs and am ensnared in this LOL!
Gee, always liked the non-SI units.
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posted on
09/14/2019 5:54:08 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
To: mrsmith
Don’t mind science having a little fun with me (after all, it’s even older than I am) but WTF?
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posted on
09/14/2019 5:59:43 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
To: mrsmith
You mean the Imperial system?
On the earth’s surface, one slug = 32 pounds. Just like one kilogram = 9.81 newtons. (Just to compare mass with weight on our planet’s surface, because both one slug and one kilogram weigh nothing in space.)
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posted on
09/14/2019 6:03:17 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: mrsmith
OK, my head is swimming after that. Trying to figure whether this satire or not?
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posted on
09/14/2019 6:04:59 PM PDT
by
caver
To: Olog-hai
But it’s nuts!
Or, it’s wrong of people to use pounds when they mean mass...
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posted on
09/14/2019 6:05:50 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
To: caver
Know what you mean, feel the same.
But this is real.
And it’s a real problem for me.
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posted on
09/14/2019 6:07:39 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
To: mrsmith
Good luck to you my friend.
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posted on
09/14/2019 6:10:10 PM PDT
by
caver
To: mrsmith
Walked out into my shop one day one of my workers was sitting on top a 18 wheeler airspring and fix'n to hit the intake with a air nozzel.
We had a 200 gal, 200 psi, 440 volt compressor, 2" plumbing for air routing and a 1/2 in fast fill air hose.
Stopped him and got my pocket calculator out.
Standing next to him we calculate the surface area of the top of the airspring, guessed 1/2 flow of the air discharge of the air gun, the lbs of force that would be exerted to the top of the airspring and his weight...
He would have shot almost 25 ft into the air.
He declined to continue his misadventure quest.
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posted on
09/14/2019 6:15:21 PM PDT
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
To: mrsmith
He uses the abbreviation of “sg”. When I see “sg” I tend to think in terms of “specific gravity”.
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posted on
09/14/2019 6:15:27 PM PDT
by
2111USMC
(Aim Small Miss Small)
To: mrsmith
To: mrsmith
So, it’s possible to have a slug of salt?
To: mrsmith
To: mrsmith
I had physics and two years of algebra in high school, and after reading that, I feel like those courses were a complete waste of time.
I thought British people measured their weight in stones. Do their scales actually show pounds?
To: mrsmith
Wow, don’t know why that end parentheses is not copied when I pasted it. Just type it in.
To: Deaf Smith
Bless you, it’s craziness!
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posted on
09/14/2019 6:22:39 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
09/14/2019 6:24:14 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
To: mrsmith
About 15 yrs ago.
Not my hire.
That 2 inch air routing did fail once. It was loud when it blew.
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posted on
09/14/2019 6:28:39 PM PDT
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
To: mrsmith
I love the slug. My wife and I had a blast firing off the 12 ga and 20 ga kind last night.
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posted on
09/14/2019 6:30:18 PM PDT
by
Azeem
(There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo.)
To: Verginius Rufus
Yes they show pounds. 14 pounds to the stone.
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posted on
09/14/2019 6:35:08 PM PDT
by
Pikachu_Dad
("the media are selling you a line of soap)
To: Deaf Smith
“mot my hire”.
Jusi curious, did thst do you any good?
Was never good at cotporate politics...
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posted on
09/14/2019 6:36:21 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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