Cecil wrote,

Gene Nygaard wrote:
You can, of course, choose not to call this quantity "weight." You
can call it mass instead, if you want to.

Here's an interesting quote from _University_Physics_ by Young and
Freedman: "On the moon, a stone would be just as hard to throw
horizontally, but it would be easier to lift." It also says weight
is a vector and mass is a scalar.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp


You better watch out, Cecil, Gene is liable to write a scathing indictment
of your intelligence, integrity, and job fitness, for quoting that. By the way,

what ever happened to the old idea that the attraction between two masses
was directly proportional to the size of the two masses multiplied together,
and inversely
proportional to the square of the distance between them - sort of like positive
and
negative charge (Coulomb's Law and all that).
73,
Tom Donaly, KA6RUH