Lose Weight the Slow and Incredibly Difficult Way
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This seems simple enough. Your weight comes from the Earth’s gravity pulling you down. The Earth’s gravity comes from its mass. Less mass should mean less gravity. Remove mass from the Earth, and you’ll lose weight.
You decide to give it a try.
Removing lots of mass from the Earth will take a lot of energy, so you start by seizing the entire planet’s oil reserves.
You process the oil into fuel and use it to launch several hundred billion tons of rocks into orbit. This shaves off an average of 0.2 mm of rock from the Earth’s surface. You hop on the scale.
Okay, it didn’t
