Reply to post: Re: Weight

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veti Silver badge

Re: Weight

I disagree. When people say something "weighs" 1kg, they are making a statement about how much of it there is. That's what's important when, e.g., baking a cake or doing the shopping.

Scales will of course be calibrated to local gravity (as happens here on Earth, gravity is not the same - 1kg in, say, Greenland is about 0.5% heavier than that same kg in Ecuador). But it's still "1kg".

On the Moon, I'm guessing 1lb is quite a bit more than 1kg.

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