Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted in

Re:Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes vote... by k_sze on Saturday November 19, 2022 @12:08AM (#33667149)

I believe you are correct. Within the gravitational field around it, the whole Earth is in free fall and has no weight.

The Earth has a mass, however.

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Re:Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes vote... by Jedd on Sunday November 20, 2022 @08:02AM (#33680580)

Thanks for rephrasing. This was the crux of my observation.

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