King Kong Lived?

Agent Provocateur writes "McMaster University recently announced the discovery of the remains of a gigantic ape, measuring over 3 meters tall and weighing up to 600kg, that supposedly co-existed alongside humans." From the article: "Jack Rink, associate professor of geography and earth sciences at McMaster, has determined that Gigantopithecus blackii, the largest primate that ever lived, roamed southeast Asia for nearly a million years before the species died out 100,000 years ago. This was known as the Pleistocene period, by which time humans had already existed for a million years."

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Re:So we metric system users...

[microwave_EE]

Yeah, but notice that TFA said that the gorilla "weighed" 600Kg.

Kilogram isn't a measure of weight. It is a measure of mass. You need acceleration to have weight. Weight is force, not mass.
F = m a

Might as well talk about how a resistor dissipates 2.3 Amps of power, or say that the speed of light is 3e8 meters. It's gibberish. You gotta keep track of your units.