POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Body math : Re: Body math Server Time
5 Sep 2024 23:14:43 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Body math  
From: scott
Date: 17 Apr 2009 07:12:36
Message: <49e86424$1@news.povray.org>
> That's pretty special, right there. And you're telling me you engineer 
> stuff for a living? ;-)
>
> That's almost as broken as the logic in Braniac's weight experiment. They 
> got a girl, weighed her, and then made her eat a quarter pounder. 
> Afterwards, she was less than a quarter of a pound heavier. This is 
> because of "the energy used by eating the burger". And not because, say, 
> 1/4 lb is THE UNCOOKED WEIGHT OF THE BURGER or anything like that... :-P

You're talking about the instant weight change due to the mass of food. 
Compare consuming 3kg of water with 3kg of cheese.  Both will cause you to 
instantly "put on" 3kg, but guess which one will cause your weight to be 
higher (by 500g per 3500 calories apparently) a few days later?


Post a reply to this message

Copyright 2003-2023 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.