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Subject: Just a tiny mistake, really

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Disclaimer: It's pretty much my job to be a nerd, so I apologize if this thread annoys you.

I was reading the ODST bios off the front page just a minute ago. I noticed that the squad members' weights are given in units of kilograms. Doesn't Bungie know that the kilogram is a unit of mass? Mass and weight are not the same thing. Anyway, I notice these kinds of things. Did any of you notice?

  • 06.02.2009 10:16 PM PDT

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It would be in kilograms because that is their Mass wherever they go, not their weight on their home planet.

I mean, look at it like this:

My mass and weight on Earth is 58 Kg. If these guys are from different planets, with different levels of gravitational force, it makes sense to judge them on a universally identical scale rather then something that would change from location to location.

/physics

[Edited on 06.02.2009 10:21 PM PDT]

  • 06.02.2009 10:18 PM PDT

So what if I have a low K/D? I enjoy the game more than you do.

Now that you point it out, it is kinda' funny. Also llamalizard is likely correct.


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  • 06.02.2009 10:18 PM PDT

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llamalizard has quite a point...

  • 06.02.2009 10:21 PM PDT

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Hooray for all the Math teachers who have lied to me saying that its just the metric system's measurement of weight.

Lets go with llamalizard's answer.

  • 06.02.2009 10:22 PM PDT

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Yes he is correct. You can't have different methods of judging weight. Well you can but it's confusing and wastes time. Using mass is definately the right way to do things.

  • 06.02.2009 10:23 PM PDT
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Maybe the measurements have been defined to use mass, so there is a standard. Otherwise it would be impossible to compare weights of objects from different planets and such . . .

[Edited on 06.02.2009 10:24 PM PDT]

  • 06.02.2009 10:23 PM PDT

question everything...truth has no pedigree

Yeah, I get why they would use mass instead of weight. Because the mass of any object is the same regardless of the local gravitational field strength. But why not call it mass then? I guess they have better things to do than worry about details like that.

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Posted by: wu haoxuan
Yeah, I get why they would use mass instead of weight. Because the mass of any object is the same regardless of the local gravitational field strength. But why not call it mass then? I guess they have better things to do than worry about details like that.
Possibly to make it easier for the younger fans to understand? Or just how generally mass isn't used in normal speaking.

  • 06.02.2009 11:17 PM PDT

I wish I was still legendary.

Posted by: wu haoxuan
Yeah, I get why they would use mass instead of weight. Because the mass of any object is the same regardless of the local gravitational field strength. But why not call it mass then? I guess they have better things to do than worry about details like that.


Probably a few reasons:

Not everyone knows what mass is, so it's easier to say weight.

Kilograms are also a unit of measurement in the Metric system, so if that was their weight on earth in KG it is also their mass.

  • 06.02.2009 11:19 PM PDT

Were it so easy.

Posted by: llamalizard
It would be in kilograms because that is their Mass wherever they go, not their weight on their home planet.

I mean, look at it like this:

My mass and weight on Earth is 58 Kg. If these guys are from different planets, with different levels of gravitational force, it makes sense to judge them on a universally identical scale rather then something that would change from location to location.

/physics


Smart catch there!

  • 06.03.2009 12:07 AM PDT
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Posted by: llamalizard
It would be in kilograms because that is their Mass wherever they go, not their weight on their home planet.

I mean, look at it like this:

My mass and weight on Earth is 58 Kg. If these guys are from different planets, with different levels of gravitational force, it makes sense to judge them on a universally identical scale rather then something that would change from location to location.

/physics


Seriously, that may have been the most intelligent thing ever said in the bungie.net forums. Well done, sir.

  • 06.03.2009 12:11 AM PDT

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Posted by: llamalizard
It would be in kilograms because that is their Mass wherever they go, not their weight on their home planet.

I mean, look at it like this:

My mass and weight on Earth is 58 Kg. If these guys are from different planets, with different levels of gravitational force, it makes sense to judge them on a universally identical scale rather then something that would change from location to location.

/physics


This is true. If my memory is correct, not one of them is from Earth. Dare might be, but it's classified.

  • 06.03.2009 12:18 AM PDT

Weight is measured by the force of gravity. Mass X ForceOfGravity = Weight
In a intergalactic universe, you didn't think that there would be different weights of objects due to differing gravities?

  • 06.03.2009 12:20 AM PDT