Lerner wrote: Duke, no name-calling is allowed on this forum.
Also, you are wrong. All units of weight–kg, metric tons, pounds, grams, etc. are also used as units of mass. Objects have mass and thus inertia, no matter where they are. An object that weighs one ton on Earth has a mass of one ton wherever it is, including in space.
Exactly. 2000 lbs. weight on Earth is the result of having 2000 lbs mass (colloquial/usual use of “lbs.”) The point of this discussion is disputing the remarkable statement that 1 ton of mass represents a “weight” of 32,000 lbs. in, e.g., the hold of a 747-400F air freighter.
