Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

magnoliasmanor t1_j0kg6dn wrote

Reply to comment by Roscoe_P_Coaltrain in NASA's DART asteroid smash flung 2 million pounds of rock into space by shellystarzz

Honestly have never heard of the slug unit of measurement?

1

Roscoe_P_Coaltrain t1_j0l9p96 wrote

It's a unit of mass. Pound is technically a unit of force, though for everyday use we treat it as if it was a unit of mass. Sometimes we used lbf and lbm to distinguish the two, but IIRC slug is the fundamental unit of mass in the Imperial system. Honestly, haven't had to deal with it in 30 years so it's all a bit fuzzy.

3