There's no such thing as four tons of pressure :/ Edit: Although they really proved my point about not understand literally the most basic physics on the planet :)
This is one of the funniest conversations I've ever read on this site.
Impressive or not, incorrect is incorrect. I can forgive Han Solo doing the Kessel run in twelve parsecs, because well, light sabres. Someone making a point about how awesome their engineering is without knowing the correct unit? Doesn't pass muster. You have Google. Use it.
"Here in America, we measure pressure in pounds, goddamnit. Fuck the metric system." The odds overwhelmingly favor someone having said that over not. I'm a dynes guy, myself.
And when you study engineering in America, you get to do problems in dynes and slugs and lbf so that your professors can say "and this is why the entire scientific community is behind the metric system." Inches/feet/yards/miles is one thing. it's all fun'n'games until you have to invoke dimensional analysis and suddenly the entire system of measure explodes in a pyrotechnic nightmare of single-use coefficients.
Studying engineering in Canada means that you will use both the imperial and the metric system pretty much arbitrarily. If during first year they at least pretended like the metric system was the one they were sticking with, as time went by I realized that we have been tricked with no hopes of escape.
One of the confusions between English and metric is the whole force/mass thing. Pounds are a force measure by default, not as a special edge case. One can talk about pounds of mass, but only if it is specifically mentioned. The slug, though rarely used, is the default mass measurement in English units.
In the part of space over America, you still weigh many pounds. 'cuz yer fat
Edit: I blew it (see b_b's response). Been up all night writing. Huge paper. Forgot you aren't even remotely American. Stop being better at English than 90% of my country, Devac. Edit2, proper response edition: Yeah, that's exactly the pound we're talkin' about. Pound it dawg. And I wouldn't be a very good am_Unition if I didn't feel compelled to tell you that slugs are large diameter shotgun bullets, where I come from. ^ Nah, I made that up, but you can't tell. My favorite real thing, still. It had a few thousand upvotes before it disappeared from the subreddit, I can't find it there anymore. Gonna be hard to beat a visualization already on the cutting edge so far ahead of its time. Aaaand I'll bury the only meaningful b1ts in the middle: I will be doing outreach soon. Significantly more outreach than talking mad shit, at least. It's on the calendar now. I've also kinda been practicing on accident. thread is A++ 100.1% yessers thx bwah Now get back to work, everyone.As you can see here, in the top rated post for a 5 year period on /r/dataisbeautiful, a Tootsie Pop is coated in 47 licks of candy, on average