Comment on With the amount of microplastics we're carrying around in pretty much every tissue in our bodies, is our weight measurably different as a result?

NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• awwwyissss@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve been eating plastic straws nonstop for days and I’m pretty sure I just levitated for a couple seconds

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  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So what has brought you back down?

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    • BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What goes in, eventually comes out the other end.

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    • awwwyissss@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I ate some hippies, plastics’ natural enemies.

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• angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This only applies if there’s plastic INSTEAD of tissue. In case there’s plastic IN ADDITION to tissue, then it makes you heavier, but it still makes you less dense, so you can float better in water.

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• nous@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This logic is flawed. If you stand on some scales and pick up a credit card, the scale will measure you are one credit card heavier. You don’t get lighter by adding mass (at least when that mass is also denser then air). And what evidence is there that this plastic in our bodies is additional mass or replaced mass? That is the assumption your logic is based on.

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  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The example was about plastic in your brain.

    Now, the volume inside your skull is limited. I had assumed that this was a matter of course. And that’s why I was talking about density.

    Same goes for the rest of the body: I always assume that the microplastic is replacing body mass.

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    • nous@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Your brain is not rigid though - it can collect fluids and swell a tiny bit. Which essentially increases pressure inside it and if happens too much can be fatal. But that means you can squish a little bit more into without replacing mass - at least for a little while. Bones also regrow constantly, and with genital pressure and a lot of time you can reshape them.

      I always assume that the microplastic is replacing body mass.

      I dont think this is a valid assumption to make. I would see it more as your body working around the microplastics to do what it needs to do as best it can it does not have some limit as to the amount of mass it can use at any one point.

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      • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I dont think this is a valid assumption

        You are free to think so.

        But if you say that my logic were flawed because you do not agree with my assumption, then it is rather your logic that is flawed.

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