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Are weight-loss drugs technically weapons of mass destruction?
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Using the law of conservation of matter and extending your own logic, matter (mass) can never be created or destroyed, only transformed, so weapons of mass destruction don't exist.
MASSive disappointment :<
Nuclear bombs do a pretty good job of destroying mass.
That's mass distribution, possibly state alterations.
I can't believe the people replying to me...
Einstein is famous for E= mc^2 . That's literally the equation that describes how much energy you get from destroying mass. It's the core of why nuclear power produces so much energy. A tiny tiny amount of mass is converted directly to energy. Mass gone. Energy here.
Fwiw, I was just just trying to be funny, and I think many, myself included, are thinking about the results of setting off such a bomb and the effect it would have on the surrounding mass.
I probably should've switched my two replies then. This one is funnier
https://lemmy.world/comment/25430430
No they don't
Am I a joke to you?
They literally function by converting mass into energy (thereby destroying the mass). What is that if not mass destruction?