Dr Karl

Mr. Biscuit.

Oh, my God.

Did you even do a social media post on this and become famous?

Well, maybe I will be able to find some friends to measure their biscuits with me.

Short answer, the weight measured on the scales, if you're standing on scales, is the same, but it's better distributed.

But just before we dive into it, so you're in the Pilbara up in that top left-hand corner of Australia where I believe they have the world record for the world's longest train of eight kilometres?

And they did have the world's longest train.

They did it for the record.

Yeah.

Wow.

And they could do that thing that's been done with horses where they can get energy for free.

So they're loaded with iron ore.

They go downhill for free just using electric motors running backwards to catch the energy, and they can go back uphill again for free, but they haven't moved to that thing.

Okay, to answer your question, so the number you've got, water is molecules of H2O.

They don't just vanish suddenly when you drink them.

They're just redistributed from the container, right?

where you're holding it, maybe a kilo or half a kilo, awkwardly in one hand while you're trying to do something else, into your body and very quickly from your stomach is then redistributed into your bloodstream and evenly over your whole body.

So the weight as measured at your feet is the same, but it's better distributed.

So you don't feel as though you're carrying this weight.

You're only carrying just a little bit spread through your whole body.