>> 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
> 
> That refers to a very classical experiment where someone measure his 
> weight while sitting on a platform for some time and became lighter all 
> the time. That was the first time they got a clue that perhaps we are 
> breathing out CO2 and that takes some weight. I can not find a reference 
> unfortunately.

It strikes me that this would take a really, *really* long time to 
happen though.

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