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If your BMI is precisely zero then you are probably a ghost. Your health rather a moot point now.
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282 – A weighty comic

by Luke on March 1, 2010 at 12:00 am

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  1. alcarithemad
    alcarithemad
    June 8, 1352 at 8:40 pm | # | Reply

    Negative matter has negative mass, and can be used to fuel time machines.

  2. P-Nuts
    P-Nuts
    March 1, 2010 at 1:44 am | # | Reply

    Antimatter still has positive mass.

    • Sinny
      Sinny
      March 4, 2010 at 12:23 am | # | Reply

      True but it has no body mass.

  3. Silfedac
    Silfedac
    March 1, 2010 at 3:29 am | # | Reply

    Ha, this is brilliant. Excellent work.

  4. Nate
    Nate
    March 1, 2010 at 6:27 am | # | Reply

    I gotta say, I’m somewhat surprised that this graph is not inverted, with a yo mama joke at the end.

    • Fatman
      Fatman
      March 3, 2010 at 12:37 am | # | Reply

      That makes two of us! =P

  5. Daniel
    Daniel
    March 1, 2010 at 7:38 am | # | Reply

    Oh, I’m not made of anti-matter. It’s just that my weight is… complex. Calm down!

  6. JR
    JR
    March 1, 2010 at 10:19 am | # | Reply

    In fact it’s rather a complex height that would give a negative BMI… A complex mass would yield a complex BMI…

  7. Teho
    Teho
    March 1, 2010 at 10:24 am | # | Reply

    Wonder how high your BMI have to be before you need to start worring about going supernova.

  8. Giorgio Sironi
    Giorgio Sironi
    March 1, 2010 at 10:50 am | # | Reply

    I agree, it is a misconception. Antimatter has positive mass.

  9. Greg
    Greg
    March 1, 2010 at 3:10 pm | # | Reply

    Anti-matter doesn’t have negative mass. The term for that is exotic matter, which isn’t theoretically destructive.

  10. Dan
    Dan
    March 1, 2010 at 4:50 pm | # | Reply

    It has yet to be shown if antimatter’s gravitational mass is positive or negative: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_interaction_of_antimatter
    (scales measure gravitational mass, as opposed to inertial mass)

  11. Andy Hey
    Andy Hey
    March 1, 2010 at 5:06 pm | # | Reply

    I love mass debating.

    • JustBen
      JustBen
      April 17, 2010 at 1:08 pm | # | Reply

      that, my good man, was pure genius

  12. Dylan
    Dylan
    March 1, 2010 at 5:06 pm | # | Reply

    If your BMI is 0 you may not be a ghost, you may just be infinitesimally tall!
    Well, technically you’d be √∞ units measurement tall, but that amounts to the same thing, right?

  13. Rich
    Rich
    March 1, 2010 at 5:56 pm | # | Reply

    @Andy – don’t we all…

  14. Daniel
    Daniel
    March 1, 2010 at 9:40 pm | # | Reply

    JR: ugh, you’re right. I just peeked at the BMI formula and misread “height”. My bad.

  15. mrmeval
    mrmeval
    March 2, 2010 at 6:42 am | # | Reply

    “Fantorexic”

  16. Philip
    Philip
    March 2, 2010 at 9:02 pm | # | Reply

    Yup. Anti-matter has positive mass. And only a 100 mile radius? The explosive energy, assuming the subject weighs a mere 60 kilograms, would be as much as 200,000 Hiroshima bombings. Not everything in a 100 mile radius, but everything on the ENTIRE PLANET would be severely endangered.

    It would still have been 4000 times as weak as the Dinosaur-extinction meteor impact, though.

    Your length could also simply be a complex number.

  17. ljdarten
    ljdarten
    March 4, 2010 at 1:40 pm | # | Reply

    Let’s not ev en get started on weights coming in as imaginary numbers.

  18. Sean
    Sean
    March 4, 2010 at 10:39 pm | # | Reply

    A gram of antimatter has a mass of 1 gram, not a mass of -1 gram, not a mass of i grams.
    An anti-proton has the same mass as a proton.

  19. Andrew Stella
    Andrew Stella
    March 8, 2010 at 5:20 am | # | Reply

    For the record, I thought this comic was both hilarious and well executed.

  20. Alex F
    Alex F
    March 9, 2010 at 5:09 pm | # | Reply

    This is why particles with negative masses are called “anorexions”. :)

  21. Jordi S
    Jordi S
    March 12, 2010 at 3:18 am | # | Reply

    Either that or you have imaginary height. ;)

  22. tuco
    tuco
    March 23, 2010 at 7:50 pm | # | Reply

    That top zone is mislabeled… It should read “Yo mamma!”

  23. anonymous
    anonymous
    April 19, 2010 at 6:09 pm | # | Reply

    “Yo momma” always makes me think Yo-Yo Ma.

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