It’s the Cowboy Bebop future. Earth will have so much shit orbiting it that debris strikes will become commonplace.
Didn’t have that on the radar!
K-pound? Really?
Yeah, it’s really shitty writing by someone who probably got the job for favors.
Just say 1,000…
Half a ton, if you really want to stick to imperial…
What next? Centigallons? Megafurlongs?
It goes by kip in more professional settings, but yes.
Yep. Lots of kip feet numbers in engineering. Moments are everywhere and they usually dominate.
kilopounds. really‽
As the other comment says, 1000 is often shortened to 1k, not just in America. It comes from the Greek kilo (meaning thousand), represented by kappa, which far predates the Metric system that borrowed it later.
If I hurled an 1100-pound object indiscriminately into the air, the government would hunt me down and put me in jail for years.
But nothing will happen to the government or corporation responsible for this.
In all likelihood if it was you then there is much Kenya could do anyway
I’m sure it has been identified days ago, why are they not finding the information?
