Ah - common mistake. It's a fairly recent creation, so the "fuckload" already IS metric. It's "assload" vs. "buttload" that're confusing. For reasons that are not entirely clear, the European "assload" is about 10% larger than the American/British "buttload".
A fuckload, or even several fuckloads, will never do it. You'd need at least 1,000 fuckloads per mile to make a decent cable (possibly even 2,000), so that's 44,000,000 fuckloads minimum just for one Space Elevator.
I hate it when people can't keep their units of measure straight. Obviously not an engineer.
You think Cygwin is easy to install??? What planet do you live on? Okay, maybe the core utilities, yes, but I defy you to install PostgreSQL correctly on the first try!
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Ah - common mistake. It's a fairly recent creation, so the "fuckload" already IS metric. It's "assload" vs. "buttload" that're confusing. For reasons that are not entirely clear, the European "assload" is about 10% larger than the American/British "buttload".
A fuckload, or even several fuckloads, will never do it. You'd need at least 1,000 fuckloads per mile to make a decent cable (possibly even 2,000), so that's 44,000,000 fuckloads minimum just for one Space Elevator.
I hate it when people can't keep their units of measure straight. Obviously not an engineer.
You think Cygwin is easy to install??? What planet do you live on? Okay, maybe the core utilities, yes, but I defy you to install PostgreSQL correctly on the first try!