Originally Posted by
Dan Schocke
Rod, you hit my point exactly... Kilograms are units of mass, not weight. Weight is mass multiplied by local acceleration due to gravity, and the unit for that in the metric system is Newtons. Pounds, on the other hand, are units of weight, not mass. As human beings cannot sense mass, the kg is somewhat useless as a unit of measure in everyday life.
The poundal is a unit that was really invented to make force calculations simpler in the English system of units, so not sure how that applies here.