Are weight-loss drugs technically weapons of mass destruction?
This is a very serious question. Since what we usually refer to as "weight" is actually mass if we use weight-loss drugs are we technically using weapons of mass destruction? :3c
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Using the law of conservation of matter and extending your own logic, matter (mass) can never be created or destroyed, only transformed, so weapons of mass destruction don't exist.
MASSive disappointment :<
Nuclear bombs do a pretty good job of destroying mass.
That's mass distribution, possibly state alterations.
I can't believe the people replying to me...
Einstein is famous for E= mc^2 . That's literally the equation that describes how much energy you get from destroying mass. It's the core of why nuclear power produces so much energy. A tiny tiny amount of mass is converted directly to energy. Mass gone. Energy here.
Fwiw, I was just just trying to be funny, and I think many, myself included, are thinking about the results of setting off such a bomb and the effect it would have on the surrounding mass.
I probably should've switched my two replies then. This one is funnier
https://lemmy.world/comment/25430430
No they don't
Am I a joke to you?
They literally function by converting mass into energy (thereby destroying the mass). What is that if not mass destruction?
Mass reduction
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They’re weapons of ass reduction
Nope. They don't destroy the mass, just move it away from your body
Yes. So it's mass transport.
The ones that suppress appetite by reducing the intake of new mass so less of the prior mass is replaced as part of the normal bodily functions. The drugs themselves don't remove anything.
Laxatives move the mass away from the body.
Fun fact, most of the weight you lose is exhaled through your lungs :3
Not exhaled through your spleen? The human body truly is amazing
Common misconception :3 the spleen actually exhales the spleen juice
The more you know, I've always assumed most weight would be lost though heat absorption via the skin 😮
The "mass" in "mass destruction" is referring to the quantity of the destruction, not what is being destroyed.
The definition of mass being used in this context is an "a large quantity, amount, or number"
Think of it like, "massive destruction"
So, you'd have to be thinking of an amount of weight loss beyond what anyone has seen before.
Weapon of mass reduction.
Ridiculous. This would violate the law of conservation of mass. WMDs are not physically possible.
Another question, should we be using weight loss drugs when we're already concerned about the amount of carbon being released into the atmosphere?
Everyone should get fat as a carbon sink? Maybe, if at the end we can have natural burial, but if we are cremated isn't it all going to be released into the air anyway?
Now that is something. If everyone in the world just put on 10kg we'd lock up about 83 mega tones of carbon. Then we just need to bury people in a way that gets that carbon locked up on the ground.
Decommissioned salt mines, next to the iron barrels of un-bound toxic waste that Germany for some reason decided to store there.
It is radioactive waste in iron barrels, we Germans only do the most idiotic things!
noooo noooo
WMD's are in the middle east only