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No it's real! I can't verify the exact rating since it OL's my meter, but with some circuitry it can power my Pi for a few minutes. I got them from element14, so it's unlikely to be a fake product.

Lmao what makes you think i didnt understand the joke? We're talking about units of measurement. And yeah i dont need an excuse to say America Bad. It is bro, have you been paying attention?

Edit* my comment was meant to be a reply to another comment about the metric system, not top level. Not sure how that happened aince i clicked reply right from my inbox. Stick by what i said about america

I was in the building when when a 3F 1200V capacitor, part of a multi-rack mounted capacitor bank (powered a magnetohydrodynamic modeling experiment), failed. It ripped the rack's 30cm mounting bolts out of the floor, launched the three-tonne rack hard enough to crack the ceiling and shattered every window in the facility. I want to say that afterwards I never broke the rule about not being allowed to enter the experiment room until the banks were discharged, but I'd be lying. Undergrads are idiots, and holy cow don't fuck around with those caps...

Depends on the voltage it's charged with, but household current would give it more energy than a shotgun has.

Realistically one would not do that unless you were dealing with something industrial. You would use them otherwise for things like dampening lower voltage systems that need a lot of current.

Closer to the danger level of someone holding two exposed wires plugged into the wall.

The kilogram is just a thousand grams, so if they're tied together, they would still be tied together.

That's similar to saying "Auf Wiedersehen" translated to English is "until I see you again", therefore "Auf Wiedersehen" is technically English. Just because there's a recognised translation to a thing, that doesn't make it that thing.

I would argue that a legally defined conversion to a meter or another metric value does not make a unit metric in and of itself. Those units have to adhere to the system, which is clearly based on decimal values, not just some arbitrary conversion with an absurd precision that was only signed into law to minimize the inconvenience caused by non-standard units.

Randall hasn’t bothered to name any of them so the community has given them unofficial nicknames.

Megan is actually named in multiple comics though, ~~so is Danish (Black Hat's girlfrenemy)~~ (actually that was picked semi-arbitrarily by the community). Cueballs also have different names occasionally but they're all drawn the same.

And actually I do believe that certain non-named characters are the same comic-to-comic. Black hat and Beret guy almost certainly are.