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"I feel rough now, and I probably gained 100,000 pounds, but it was worth it."
And we all feel that way when we get into that vehicle ans strap into those million pounds of rocket fuel and go up to space.
On average days, wind can exert up to 17 pounds of force per square meter on a high-rise building– as heavy as a gust of bowling balls.
His one mistake is he's a Tibetan mastiff, and a few months later, he weighs, you know, 80 pounds.
The pressure here is 4,000 pounds per square inch.
Well, you need about 75 pounds of it.
So, what I'd like to show you is what it would take to hold 75 pounds of highly enriched uranium.
Now, plutonium, 10 to 13 pounds: this.
It was 9.8 feet long, weighed 8,800 pounds.
I'm guessing that he's at least 1,600 pounds.
One of my favorite facts is that U.S. agriculture uses 1.2 billion pounds of pesticides every year.
Or like the computer programmers at the aerospace giant Lockheed Martin, who have now written a program that uses 420,000 lines of near-flawless code to control every aspect of igniting four million pounds of rocket fuel and putting a 120-ton spaceship into orbit.
But we do know that in the last days before the Brexit vote, the official "Vote Leave" campaign laundered nearly three quarters of a million pounds through another campaign entity that our electoral commission has ruled was illegal, and it's referred it to the police.
Over a year-long period, participants lose an average of five pounds.
The second lie is I can make myself happy, that if I just win one more victory, lose 15 pounds, do a little more yoga, I'll get happy.
The average North American last year ate more than 200 pounds of meat.
Which means somebody out there ate 400 pounds of meat.
Maybe 25 pounds, or 10 kilograms.
And this stuff is moving very quickly, and by the way, that thing can carry about 350 pounds of weight.
The CAR T cells had attacked the leukemia in these patients and had dissolved between 2.9 and 7.7 pounds of tumor in each patient.
For every pound that goes to market, more than 10 pounds, even 100 pounds, may be thrown away as bycatch.
Half of each year's 100 billion pounds of thermal plastic pellets will be made into fast-track trash.
If there's a plumber, he's 300 pounds and he's got a giant butt crack, admit it.
There you can see, it's weighing in at 27 and a half pounds.
It's only three pounds, or 12 if you install Microsoft Office.
They distributed last year 70,000 packets of seeds and a quarter of a million transplants, and as a result of that last year, 550,000 pounds of produce was grown in the city of Detroit.
But if this McLaren were to run into a wall at 65 miles an hour, the entire crash energy would be absorbed by a couple of woven carbon-fiber composite cones, weighing a total of 15 pounds, hidden in the front end.
We did it, it reduced waste by three million pounds a year.
We measured it during the decade of the '90s, and over 10 years we reduced 300 million pounds of waste.
And over the last two years, we've worked with over 200 business to divert more than two million pounds of edible food from landfills into the hands of people that needed it most.
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