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>> 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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