The Kilogram Isn't What It Used to BeIt's Lighter

Within a high-security, climate-controlled vault in France, the perfect kilogram is getting ever so slightly less massiveand no one knows why.

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." -- Thomas Jefferson

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. - Carl Sagan

I believe that every right implies a responsibility, every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty. - John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

I'd like to think some hot French chick is licking it......

but then it would be gaining---oh never mind, I just posted it so the kneejerk mush skulls would accuse me of fear mongering once again.

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." -- Thomas Jefferson

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. - Carl Sagan

I believe that every right implies a responsibility, every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty. - John D. Rockefeller, Jr.