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		cubicle67 on Sept 5, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dreadnoughtus, a 130,000-Pound Dinosaur That Wasn’... which I thought was odd when I read the arstechnica article and saw the chart which showed the beast at ~59,000kg, or 59 tons, but then I remembered that our tons (tonnes) are 1000kg and the US ones are about 907kg

Tloewald on Sept 5, 2014 [–]

Luckily the imperial system has at least two different kinds of tons to help people with their intuition.

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