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[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 days ago (4 children)

What is heavier, one ton of meteors or one ton of hydrogen?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Only if you use imperial units. The article uses tonnes, which is a unit of mass, not weight.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yes but I would interpret “heavy” to be a function of weight, not mass.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Steel is heavier than feathers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Well meteors are heavier than hydrogen