I'm having trouble figuring out how to weigh mine.

[lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social]

I'm having trouble figuring out how to weigh mine.

[transitionalaspect@fnordon.de]

@lowqualityfacts I think you use the same strategy you’d use for weighing your cat: weigh yourself with your shadow, then without your shadow, subtract the second number from the first.

[farah@beige.party]

@lowqualityfacts First measure yourself with light on. Then with light off. The difference is your answer

Sorry I’m a certified nerd

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@lowqualityfacts

time to creep everyone out

there were once *shadow-traders*

they would get the measurements of someone's shadow for an architect, who would bury the measurements in the foundation of a new building in order to give strength and durability to the structure

it was believed anyone whose shadow was immured in this way would soon die

this was a substitute for a much older practice where a living person would be crushed or buried alive in the foundation

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[avincentinspace@furry.engineer]

@lowqualityfacts So from this, assuming the correlation is linear, we can compute that "Weird Al" Yankovic, whose shadow famously weighs 42 pounds, himself weighs 32.318 times more than the average person, or approximately 2.5 tons

[mrrmot@oldbytes.space]

@lowqualityfacts Swap shadows with a duck, weigh both yourself and the duck before and after. Assuming the weight of the shadow is proportional to the weight of the object, it's a simple calculation. As a side effect, you also learn whether or not you weigh more than a duck, though for personal safety reasons you may want to keep this knowledge to yourself (unless, if course, you also happen to be a bint with a sword to give away, thus combining two concepts).

[jaspercorydon@mastoart.social]

@lowqualityfacts

What's really dope is that your shadow really would affect weight. But the ground it covered would weigh less.

E = mc^2, b*tches

[varx@cybersecurity.theater]

@lowqualityfacts I actually did the math on this at one point.

Turns out a strong shadow cast by an adult in sunlight might weigh about negative 1/4 of a milligram.