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by zen death robot
blaise pascal was such an egomaniac that he put it in his will that if they named a unit after him it had to be called the mega pascal. the regular pascal was a back formation

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by zen death robot
blaise pascal: if you strike me down i shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine

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blaise: i call it the mega pascal
scientific community: thats stupid we're not calling it a mega pascal
blaise: it's called a mega pascal
scientific community: its not happening dude
blaise (final words): remember my greatest invention...the mega pascal
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scientific community: fine.....

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by zen death robot
blaise "mega" pascal

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in the pascal family everyone called blaise's dad big pascal and blaise was little pascal. the mega pascal is actually named after blaise's grandfather

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TWIST FIST posted:

pascal: so then when you divide by the area the result is 1 killerpascal
other scientist: dude we've been over this. its pronounced "kilo"
pascal: dont make me kill you

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by zen death robot
lol

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posting smiling posted:

18th century italian play boy, alessandro volta, used to sing the song "danger! high voltage" to pick up women in clubs. later, scientists pioneering the study of electricity drew a comparison between the sensation of being electrocuted and the song's "electrifying" attitude, and named the famous unit in his honor

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