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Official Kilogram Prototype
Filed under: Asides | Tags: Humor (8) | September 17th, 2007
Official prototype of kilogram mysteriously losing weight. If I was kept at a chateau in a triple-locked safe I would too. (15)
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John | September 17th, 2007 @ 4:17 pm | Reply
But … if the original kilogram is loosing weight …. that means we are all going to start weighing more! There goes the diet.
Lapper | September 18th, 2007 @ 9:16 am | Reply
I wouldn’t be too concerned. Even the weight of hundreds of finger prints wouldn’t come even close to that of a single gram.
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Patrick Havens | September 18th, 2007 @ 11:28 am | Reply
I read about this a few days ago… I wonder if they’d bother perhaps thinking that all matter changes. Given enough time I bet they’d disappear. Now if these where examples of aton denigration… that’d be cool. But no scientist has come forward with that.
I wonder what they’ll explain away the loss as. Especially since it is different samples by different amounts. And none of them are consistently the same. And they said all where losing size, I don’t think they mentioned. Did any stay the exact same weight. (I think they would of mentioned if any grew).
And since I live in the funky country that doesn’t use Metric… I can still lose weight.
Marco Richter | September 18th, 2007 @ 2:22 pm | Reply
As easy as it goes, John.
Will they have to replace it then, or do I have to reconfigure my weighs to measure correctly in the future?
Matt G. | September 18th, 2007 @ 3:04 pm | Reply
Interesting post Matt.
So I guess we should find out the secret of losing weight while sitting still for long periods of time. This might be helpful for us while were doing Wordpress all day and night.
lulando | September 18th, 2007 @ 4:32 pm | Reply
In comparison we all weigh more now, don’t we?
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That is not necessarily good news for some of us
lulando | September 18th, 2007 @ 4:33 pm | Reply
Some people should read other readers comments first, shouldn’t they…
(Sorry)
Haochi | September 18th, 2007 @ 6:09 pm | Reply
Some Australian scientists are working on a new kilogram - “weigh a perfect kilogram. Give or take an atom.” [Wired]
carl | September 18th, 2007 @ 7:36 pm | Reply
This isn’t exactly news. I heard about this a couple of years ago in chemistry. As to Patrick’s question/comment, the article said that the prototype was losing mass in comparison with the average of the national standard kilograms. That means that some could be gaining mass as well. Or all are losing mass at different rates.
Here’s an interesting thought: if all the standard masses were to lose mass at exactly the same rate, would we know the difference?
ShaolinTiger | September 18th, 2007 @ 9:59 pm | Reply
It’s not new news, the material they made it out of is strangely fairly radioactive (platinum-iridium alloy), so it loses mass due to particle decay plus oxidization and other factors.
And it’s a unit of mass not weight.
People just don’t understand the gravity of the situation!
joshuasbones | September 18th, 2007 @ 10:01 pm | Reply
*rimshot*
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carl | September 22nd, 2007 @ 12:32 am | Reply
*requisite groan at the horrendous pun*
Esme Vos | September 25th, 2007 @ 8:16 am | Reply
It’s on the Atkins Diet.