Happy Halloween!
In keeping with the spirit of the day, I thought we might try to raise some answers to questions that haunt all of us. Namely, how much does my body weigh? Its easy enough to figure out how much your corporeal body weighs, simply drag your corpse into the bathroom and stand on a scale. However, what you may not know is how much the parts of your body weigh, when separated from each other! A simple search on-line will reveal the various weights of your severed body parts, for example that your severed eye weighs in at around 1 ounce; your detached brain weighs 3 lbs (unless you are from Glasgow, DE, in which case the generous answer is closer to 2.3 lbs); your freshly removed skin weighs in at anywhere from 8-10 lbs on average, etc...
Ok, that's easy enough. But what you're probably wondering is whether or not there are other, more supernatural components of your body, and if so, what they weigh. You might be wondering, was there really a doctor who performed morbid experiments with the moribund at the beginning of the 20th Century? Did he really determine the weight of a human soul to be 21 ounces? Did he perform ghoulish experiments on dogs? Did he enjoy playing tennis? Only one way to find out (the tennis question is not answered in the article, you'll have to consult some other medium for that answer). Dr. MacDougal’s Ghastly Experiments
by File Boy
posted by File Boy & D.Tkon at 10:26 AM
6 Comments:
Interesting piece of medical research. I know a few people I would like to volunteer for future tests. I’m surprised that “your freshly removed skin weighs 8-10 lbs on average.” I wasn’t aware that freshness counted with regard to such matters. Almost sounds appetizing. Also, they’re dead wrong on the estimated weight. These figures must have been calculated 20 years ago. Have you seen how fat people are these days? I heard in a recent survey that one out of three people weighs as much as the other two! I’m thinking by today’s standards the average skin bag would be about 20-30 lbs (at least for a majority of the people working here). Nice job sir.
Well, as Dr. MacDougal found out freshness does matter. The body loses weight at a specific rate per hour due to evaporation of sweat and other bodily fluids. But don't worry, he took that into account when he performed his experiments, as evidenced in his statement: "The bowels did not move; if they had moved the weight would still have remained upon the bed except for a slow loss by the evaporation of moisture depending, of course, upon the fluidity of the feces. The bladder evacuated one or two drams of urine...".
I was surprised that the word "urine" has an "e" on the end. For some reason I thought it was "P".
>rim-shot<
It never ceases to amaze me how much time boys can spend researching and talking abt bodily functions under the guise of "medical research".
God dram it s'girl, don't you get it?
Hey S'Girl, what else would you expect from guise? At least we do medical research and produce something >cough< useful! You girls just TALK TALK TALK for the sake of Talking!!!! Now if you don't mind, I'll get back to work. I'm sure there's a shit or piss joke somewhere that needs my attention.
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