A 1,100-pound piece of rocket debris plummeted to the Earth this week and smashed into a village in Kenya, officials in that country said on New Year's Day.A metallic ring measuring about 8 feet "fell from the skies" and landed in Mukuku Village in Makueni County on Monday, the Kenya Space Agency sa...
  • @NOT_RICKEnglish
    22•1 month ago

    Here in yankland we frequently use k as an abbreviation for thousand.

    • @[email protected]English
      18•1 month ago

      Aye, everyone does, not just you. But here in the other 97% of the entire fucking planet, nobody knows what a pound is

      • @NOT_RICKEnglish
        7•1 month ago

        .45 kg, or since (I assume) you’re a Brit, 1/14th of a stone which I find is an even crazier unit of measurement.

          • @NOT_RICKEnglish
            6•1 month ago

            It’s a unit commonly used to measure weight in the UK and Ireland

            • atro_city
              2•1 month ago

              Imperial units were really dreamt up by the consanguins. Goodness me. And somehow the US Americans just inherited the system.