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Quixote1818

(28,988 posts) Fri Aug 3, 2012, 05:43 PM Aug 2012

Your weight on other worlds

http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/weight/

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Your weight on other worlds (Original Post) Quixote1818 Aug 2012 OP

So I gotta go to Uranus to be inline with the BMI table. Scuba Aug 2012 #1

We did this when I was a kid. Graybeard Aug 2012 #2

The good news is: I'm not overweight. Recovered Repug Aug 2012 #3

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

1. So I gotta go to Uranus to be inline with the BMI table.

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Fri Aug 3, 2012, 05:51 PM

Aug 2012

Hope you don't mind.

Graybeard

(6,996 posts)

2. We did this when I was a kid.

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Fri Aug 3, 2012, 06:04 PM

Aug 2012

I remember going to the Hayden Planetarium here in NYC where they had a group of scales lined up that you could stand on to get your weight. But each scale showed not your real weight but what it would be on the other planets and the Moon.

Recovered Repug

(1,518 posts)

3. The good news is: I'm not overweight.

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Fri Aug 3, 2012, 06:12 PM

Aug 2012

The bad news is: I'm on the wrong planet.

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