Re: Figg Newtons?

["Clive Liddell" <cliddell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jack,
I liked your story!

However, just for the record, 1kg = 9.8 Newtons at sea level, on Earth...(10
is a good enough conversion)

Keep well!
Regards
Clive Liddell
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
'96 R850R   73k.km
'01 R1100RT 47k.km

- ----- Original Message -----
From: Jack Bunce <jackbunce@xxxxxxx>
To: <oilheads@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <PLPKLT@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: Figg Newtons?


> On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 09:37:51 -0400, PLPKLT@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 09:37:51 -0400
> > From: PLPKLT@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: Figg Newtons?
> >
> > does anyone have the conversion factor to convert from the
> > Newton-meters which seems to be given in all the manuals.  I would
> > like to turn them into cookie-ft lbs....
> >
> >
> > And why isn't it Kg-meters.  What does a newton weigh anyway?
> > and while we are at it, why isn't milk included in any of the
> > formulas....
> >
> > Paige
>
> To answer your other question:  A Newton weighs exactly that, i.e., 1
> Newton.  Here on planet earth at sea level 1 Newton has a mass of 1 Kg.
>
> In the older days we used to use the term "slug" for the unit of mass.
> So it was real simple: 1 slug multiplied by the acceleration of gravity
> was equal to one pound.... and everybody was very happy because only
> ones were involved.
>
> Then we went to the moon and when we got there we noticed that the
> acceleration of gravity wasn't a one any more. That started to make
> things get pretty messy.
>
> And, at the same time, the flower children, who stayed behind here on
> planet earth, didn't like those slimy things that ate their flowers so
> they invented the word icky.
>
> So, then when we came back from the moon and started talking to the
> flower children again we noticed that the things that ate their flowers
> and our mass units had the same name, they were both slugs!
>
> Well, since the flower children thought slugs were icky and we really,
> really liked the flower children; after all they wanted to make love,
> not war... we decided to get rid of our slugs.
>
> But how were we to do it? We couldn't kill them because our slugs
> weren't alive.
>
> Then we noticed that the flower children not only had their own names
> for things but that lots of their things had the same name!  How did
> they do this? Well it turned out to be simple.. they invented the
> concept of like...as in you know, like.....man.  This was awfully
> appealing; fewer words, more things. So modern.
>
> We could just change the name of our slugs to something simple, elegant
> even and sort of like mass. So we did!  We changed the name to lbs,
> There were some of us who wanted to change to lbm and lbf but they just
> didn't like get it, you no what I mean.
>
> And the best part is that when our friends overseas saw this and
> realized how friendly and easy to get along with we really were they
> decided to help us out just like we helped them out before and they
> decided to give us, free of charge, the metric system where everything
> is ones!  And everything since then just keeps getting better and
> better.

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