Weight gravity experiment

Myself ^ | October 2nd 2011 | Myself

[plenipotentiary]

Could anyone interested in weight and gravity do the following experiment and post the results back on here in pounds.

Weigh yourself at the middle of your ground floor, weigh yourself again immediately outside your building, and then again finally back at the middle of your ground floor.

Thanks in advance. Mark

[6SJ7]

IBFNPWTO

In before a flurry of naked posters weigh themselves outdoors.

[gorush]

You’re trying to prove that the earth sucks, aren’t you?

[Blueflag]

Well if I weigh myself with a spring operated scale, accurate to say 10 significant figures, the reading will vary.

But if I use a balance weight scale, I’ll know I ate too much BBQ yesterday.

[Berlin_Freeper]

SCIENCE!

[isthisnickcool]

I did what you asked. I got problems. BIG problems. Excuse me but I'm so distressed over the numbers that I won't post them here. They depress me so much that I need a burger, maybe two... A couple of milkshakes, fries, onion rings... BURP! Thanks, much better....

Signed,

Chris Christie

[bigheadfred]

dagnubbit. Oh...wait... I thought you said furry nekked posters...

[ToxicMich]

Wait at the middle of your ground floor for my results...

[Cicero]

The sky is falling. That proves that gravity exists.

[sodpoodle]

Just post your findings and we’ll understand your panic.

[ol' hoghead]

I tried it. The scale read “one at a time, please.”

[matt1234]

Sorry, I no longer attend Sunday mass.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Weigh yourself at the middle of your ground floor, weigh yourself again immediately outside your building, and then again finally back at the middle of your ground floor.

OK. I followed the following procedure:

EQUIPMENT:

1. One Digital Bathroom Scale, WeightWatchers Model.
2. One Reciprocating Saw
3. 5-foot Heavy-Duty step ladder.
4. One Shop Vac
5. Small Fire Extinquisher
6. One pair wire cutters
7. One roll Electrician's Tape
8. Video camera, Panasonic.
9. Duct Tape.

Procedure:

1. I purchases a new Reciprocating Saw at the local Home Depot.
2. Using the Saw, I cut a 40-inch diameter whole in the ground level kitchen floor.
3. I accidentally hit a power line to a basement overhead light, igniting a small fire.
4. Put out the fire with the extinguisher.
5. Cut and splice the electric wire, wrap with electrician's tape.
6. Set up step ladder in basement.
7. Put scale on top of stepladder.
8. Duct tape videocamera to ceiling of basement so it sees the readout on the scale. Start recording.
9. Let self down through hole in floor, onto scale.
10. Wait 10 seconds.
11. Get up, watch tape, write down weight.
12. Wife wanders into kitchen, sees floor.
13. Take scale out to front yard.
14. Wife comes out, beats me senseless.
15. Weigh myself outside.
16. Come back inside. Wife hands me shop vac.
17. Vacuum up mess from cutting hole in kitchen.
18. Put scale back on stepladder.
19. Turn on video camera, step on scale, wait 10 seconds.
20. Wife runs into ladder in basement unloading laundry.

Note, at this point I was stuck in the floor. However, since the experiment was essentially complete, I have left out the items required to remove myself from the floor, and repair the floor; also the medical supplies.

Results:

My results were inconclusive, because apparently when my wife knocked out several teeth, plus there was a lot of bleeding, so my outdoor weight was somewhat less than the indoor weight.

Then a lot of the sawdust stuck to my wounds when I was trying to clean up. Plus, I couldn't see very well so I didn't focus the videocamera correctly for my second indoor measure. And the scale broke when it fell to the floor when the ladder was knocked over.

But it was an excellent learning experience. I would however recommend that next time, we try the indoor measurements standing ON the ground floor, rather than centered in the middle of it.

[weeder]

180.....205.....146.

[Paradox]

Brilliant.

[count-your-change]

O.K., not exactly as you asked but close.

I weighed myself indoors standing on the kitchen table. Then I went outside and weighed myself. Ten pounds difference!

‘Course I did put on my boots (I don’t walk around outside in socked feet), had my wallet in the bibs but it doesn’t weigh much anymore), had the double barrel with extra loads (never know when vermin like stray dogs, etc. come around) but they was light loads so they don’t count for much, plus the ground in the yard is so rough what with the moles that I had to stomp them little scales dowm flat to work.

What was all this supposed to be for anyway?