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 | |
# ¿ Jan 10, 2016 11:53 |
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# ¿ May 22, 2024 04:01 |
blaise pascal: if you strike me down i shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine
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# ¿ Jan 10, 2016 11:53 |
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 [...] scientific community: fine..... ---------------- |
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# ¿ Jan 10, 2016 11:56 |
blaise "mega" pascal
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# ¿ Jan 10, 2016 11:56 |
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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# ¿ Jan 10, 2016 11:59 |
TWIST FIST posted:pascal: so then when you divide by the area the result is 1 killerpascal ---------------- |
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# ¿ Jan 10, 2016 12:29 |
lol
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# ¿ Jan 10, 2016 21:42 |
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# ¿ May 22, 2024 04:01 |
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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# ¿ Mar 17, 2016 17:55 |