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Right, but when you lose weight you don't necessarily lose mass. You may have just gone to the moon (or Everest, I guess).
by StavrosK 6y ago
Right, but when you lose weight you don't necessarily lose mass. You may have just gone to the moon (or Everest, I guess).
- TeMPOraL 6y agoFair enough.
- andi999 6y agoOr simpler boarding an airplane. If I remember correctly the effect is around 0,5% which can be measured with a normal scale.
- StavrosK 6y agoI don't know if you can measure that, the airplane would have to be flying perfectly level (to at least within 0.5%).
- andi999 6y ago0.5% is around a pound for a lot of people.. should be ok, isnt it?
- StavrosK 6y agoIt's not the magnitude of the measurement, it's that if the airplane is descending at 1 degree when you measure, you'll get around 1% less weight than your actual mass. If the airplane is descending at 90 degrees, you weigh nothing.