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Re:Lose weight the slow and incredibly difficult way by elil17 on Thursday September 22, 2022 @04:03PM (#32943931)
People are always going to make these arguments. Yes, I know that there's scientific evidence that your mass effects your weight and that hunger, metabolism, etc. effect your mass. But we have to look at effect sizes. Whatever diet you try, you are only every going to have, at most, a modest effect on your own mass which will indirectly lower your weight.

I challenge people to go out there and start launching chunks of matter on escape trajectories from Earth. Yes it is hard, yes it takes a lot of energy, but you will start reducing the force of gravitational attraction acting on you. These are real results, not just a temporary change.

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Re:Lose weight the slow and incredibly difficult way by idrios on Thursday September 22, 2022 @04:32PM (#32944246)
I'm inclined to agree with the parent comment on this, maybe argue they're being conservative. I'd say closer to 99.999% of people would struggle with this weight-loss plan, and hurling chunks of matter from your backyard to out of earth's orbit doesn't sound simple to me. But I'm not gonna knock an idea before I've tried it.
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Re:Lose weight the slow and incredibly difficult way by elil17 on Thursday September 22, 2022 @04:36PM (#32944295)
Fair, but if just 1 person can do it, it works for everyone on Earth.
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Re:Lose weight the slow and incredibly difficult way by EGreg on Thursday September 22, 2022 @05:01PM (#32944584)
Have you personally shown people how to do this? Can you link to some testimonials or endorsements from former clients?

After all, anyone can say anything, and even point to lottery winners, but I want to learn from the best what it takes to actually win the lottery. I myself am not a success coach but the other day, someone very successful told me that anyone can succeed at a startup. All they have to do is get their billionaire parents to give them a small loan of 10 million dollars, and let them iterate through and fail a few times. The key is to go back to the family trough and then you can get bailed out multiple times. If your parents are not billionaires then there are ways to fix it. This can work for anyone. He showed that such an approach actually pays off because in the end you make back everything you lost AND you can now afford an amazing car and TV!

His friend said he was “reducing a hard problem to a much harder problem”. But what does his friend know, he is poor by comparison and seems bitter

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Re:Lose weight the slow and incredibly difficult way by idrios on Thursday September 22, 2022 @05:17PM (#32944743)
True. And I suppose it does get easier the further you go, what with escape velocity going down as you remove more mass..
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Re:Lose weight the slow and incredibly difficult way by floppydisc on Friday September 23, 2022 @07:57AM (#32950693)
This is very reasonable
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Re:Lose weight the slow and incredibly difficult way by checkyoursudo on Thursday September 22, 2022 @05:18PM (#32944746)
Wouldn't it be easier for me to go live on the moon instead? Or better yet, a nice, comfy asteroid?
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Re:Lose weight the slow and incredibly difficult way by tsimionescu on Thursday September 22, 2022 @05:51PM (#32945087)
Easier, but far more selfish. By helping reduce the Earth's mass, you not only help reduce your own weight, but the weight of all current and future inhabitants of the Earth!
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