sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoCanada just cut a hole in the roof of a working nuclear reactor, hauled out eight steam generators weighing 100 tons each, and lowered new ones into the same hole, bringing the reactor back online se…www.autonocion.comexternal-linkmessage-square47linkfedilinkarrow-up1263arrow-down114
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minus-squareValmond@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 days agoWhat the fuck is a US ton…
minus-squareotp@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 days ago What the fuck is a US ton… I dunno, like two American football fields?
minus-squaremic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoAh, so ~0.909091 furlongs if we only count the play area. 1.090909 furlongs if we count the 10 yard infields.
minus-squarecorsicanguppy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·3 days agoIt swhatbwe call the things Yanks and north Koreans use to measure weight since ‘ton’ is assumed to be a metric ton for the rest of the world. (Yes, I’ve seen the Canadian weights and measures flowchart but this is still a funny jab)
minus-squareHeydo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 days agoOr 907 kg. So almost a metric ton, which is 1,000 kg (or 1.000 kg for some). This shit isn’t at all confusing /s
minus-squareRailcar8095@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoThat was more surprising to me than the actual article.
What the fuck is a US ton…
2000 lbs
I dunno, like two American football fields?
Ah, so ~0.909091 furlongs if we only count the play area. 1.090909 furlongs if we count the 10 yard infields.
It swhatbwe call the things Yanks and north Koreans use to measure weight since ‘ton’ is assumed to be a metric ton for the rest of the world.
(Yes, I’ve seen the Canadian weights and measures flowchart but this is still a funny jab)
2000 lb
Or 907 kg. So almost a metric ton, which is 1,000 kg (or 1.000 kg for some).
This shit isn’t at all confusing /s
That was more surprising to me than the actual article.