▲ 673 ▼ Need a AI update (thelemmy.club) submitted 4 months ago by VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world 167 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (2 children) Hummm ackchuly, lbs is a unit of mass, it is not used to measure force, they ackchuly mean 136N 🤓 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] pigup@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago lbf permalink fedilink source parent [–] midribbon_action@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 3 months ago Pounds is force, newtons is also force. You even converted it correctly; you wouldn't be able to do that with like grams or any other mass unit. The only reason we use pounds and mass interchangeably is that we all experience pretty similar gravity all over the world, so a certain mass will generally exert the same amount of force regardless where it is on the Earth's surface or what it's made of. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] midribbon_action@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 3 months ago Pounds is force, newtons is also force. You even converted it correctly; you wouldn't be able to do that with like grams or any other mass unit. The only reason we use pounds and mass interchangeably is that we all experience pretty similar gravity all over the world, so a certain mass will generally exert the same amount of force regardless where it is on the Earth's surface or what it's made of. permalink fedilink source parent
