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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Did you mean pounds per square inch? The foot-pound is a unit of torque. That number would make more sense for the force generated by its wings.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's a japanese bird, that should be Pascal.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Unless you mean the specific individual in the photo, it's not Japanese.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

No non-metric area in that picture, the core of my joke still stands :P

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

think of the bird's claw as a small torque wrench ... similarly, when we unscrew the cap of a jar, we notice that our hands have a limited torque capacity.