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TranscriptA screenshot saying "Your child's Results, Your child's BMI is Infinity. That puts them in the 100th percentile which indicates that they are obese."

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 7 points 7 hours ago

Absolute unit

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

You wouldn't be obese, you'd be OBOSE.

[–] ZagamTheVile@lemmy.world 38 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] will_a113@lemm.ee 32 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

That just means that as their mass approached infinity their volume approached zero. The person is simply a black hole.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Not so fast, we don't know that a black hole has a singularity. It's more like, the math divided by zero, and we shrugged, and went, well, I guess that doesn't work.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 19 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

It's possible this child is simply traveling at or near the speed of light.

[–] will_a113@lemm.ee 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Only if the measurement was being taken from a reference frame that was mostly at rest with respect to the person tho, right?

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago

Everyone is in a reference frame mostly at rest with respect to most children.

[–] Carvex@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago

I've known a few kids I'd like to kick in the asymptote.

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 11 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

And if it's a male child, then he's a black hole son.

[–] match@pawb.social 7 points 11 hours ago

advanced "your mama" joke

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 6 points 12 hours ago

Shit I'm sorry for your infinitely obese son :/