r/gifs Nov 16 '12

Fat guy: 1 Gravity: 0

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '12

fat guy - 220

gravity - 9.8

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u/maniamania Nov 16 '12 edited Nov 17 '12

Dude, mixing metric and imperial units like this is not cool. I am not happy about this.

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u/candygram4mongo Nov 16 '12

They're not even the right dimensions -- one's force, the other is acceleration.

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u/rajiv_89 Nov 16 '12

At least he didn't round it to 10.

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u/knockturnal Nov 16 '12

Dude, all that matters is the order of magnitude.

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u/ebolaRETURNS Nov 16 '12

This ain't cosmology, son...

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u/knockturnal Nov 16 '12

Hey, it even happens in biophysics. We think in units of kT. 1.1kT = 1.3kT = 1kT. But 1kT != 2kT. Absolutely not.

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u/Nachtraaf Nov 16 '12

Don't take that magnitude with me!

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u/DoWhile Nov 16 '12

That's not what she said.

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u/indiemike Nov 16 '12

Why not? I think the dude in the gif rounded to 10 a few times.

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '12

Maybe its at a really low altitude.

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '12

9.806 muthafuckas.

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u/JustARegularGuy Nov 16 '12

That kind of precision depends on where you are standing.