If i eat myself wil i be twice size or dissapear

[Gowcra]

:laugh:

[Bawx]

I eat my limbs all the time. :cool:

[Milan -]

^ really what they like :unsure:

[JustVince]

Is this anything like trying to give yourself head?

[scoobydoobie]

If I eat your girlfriend will she leave you or stay with me?

[jackwanders]

Harry Caray: Hey! If you were a hot dog, and you were starving, would you eat yourself?

Colin Quinn: What?

Harry Caray: I know I would! First, I would smother myself with brown mustard and relish.. I'd be so

delicious! [ thrilled with himself ] So, would you?

Colin Quinn: I don't know..

Harry Caray: Don't jerk me around, Norm! It's a simple question! A baby could answer it! If you were a hot dog, and you were starving, would you eat yourself?

Colin Quinn: [ complying ] I guess so.

Harry Caray: Oh, you made a wise choice, my friend! If you had said no, I would have bitten your ear off!

Seriously though, if you're not happy with the "it's impossible you dimwit" response, then my apologies.

[kylejn]

You would disappear. Why? Because on an episode of "South Park," David Blaine ate his own head, and that disappeared. By extension, if you could eat your entire body, your entire body would disappear.

:p

[Toonie]

You wudnt do either you wud be the same mass etc but in different ****** up way :D !!!

[aishiteru]

Your mass will decrease by 80% approx.

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leaning towards this

However, that's assuming that you digest a full 20% of nutrients found in yourself. I'm guessing most of your body is difficult to digest (bones, hair, etc.) so your mass will likely decrease by maybe 90%

[Milan -]

Seriously though, if you're not happy with the "it's impossible you dimwit" response, then my apologies.

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no no i agree, it is impossible, i was asking if you could eat yourslef,

[zhangm Supervisor]

Ok.

I'm gonna take the stance that you will completely disappear. This is of course, assuming that you know the proper way to eat yourself, i.e. which body parts should be eaten first, and which should be eaten later. It may also be wise to have someone assist you, as after your left arm is finished, it will be rather hard to use your right arm to feed it to yourself.

Keep yourself well-hydrated during this, as your body will need liquids to ensure the proper functioning of your digestive system.

Now, considering that each time your body parts pass through your digestive tract, they get broken down more and more, eventually, even the toughest parts of your body (bones, teeth), will become a nice yellow nutritional slop, due to being chewed, swallowed, and passed through enzymes in your stomach and your small intestine. I advise you to collect this slop each time it passes out your anus, as you need to eat it again and again.

Eventually, after being passed through your digestive tract enough, the enzymes which you secrete will do their job, and take apart every single protein, lipid, and carbohydrate, leaving you with innumerable monomers, nucleic bases; the basic components of any living thing. After passing through you for the final time, you'll end up with a tub full of liquid goo, which can be left outside to evaporate (after all, you ARE 80%-90% water). The solid remnants after evaporation will be no more significant than dust. Should be good fertilizer for plants, although if you wish, you can leave the dust in the tub to blow away in the wind.

As a clarification, as your body digests things and subsequently uses the nutrients obtained to create energy, it creates water as a byproduct. The whole cellular respiration process generates H2O as a waste product, therefore, I estimate that perhaps 95% of your total body mass would simply evaporate as water, assuming that your metabolic processes continued normally as you were eating yourself.

That's about the best you can do for "disappearing". Your body cannot produce enough energy and has insufficient density to undergo nuclear fusion. If it did, you could simply vanish, converting all your mass into energy in one brilliant flash (and leaving a sizable crater where you last stood).

[matt0]

^ are you that hard up for cash bro?

btw, you'd be neither. You'd be exactly the same, just a dead moron who tried to eat himself.

[zhangm Supervisor]

I happen to like science. Almost anything related to biology or astronomy, I can answer, or give a decent explanation for...

Edit: Referring to the mention of Law of Conservation of Matter...

Good point, however, we accept that matter can be converted into energy, and energy into matter.

Despite not travelling at relativistic speeds, or punching holes in the fabric of space-time, our seemingly unremarkable bodies do convert matter into energy (once again, cellular metabolism). So you can literally radiate away your own mass in the form of heat (haven't met anyone who radiates in something other than infrared yet...). So yeah, throughout the day, you lose mass by converting it into energy.

Edited March 30, 2005 by Relativity_17

[SunnyB]

Understanding that this is a rhetorical question and has no real answer

I am willing to take a quess.

It would be like the old riddle of being miles from home and walking

one-half of the remaining distance each day. How long would it take

you to get home? You would never actually cover the entire distance

because you could only travel one-half of the remainder regardless

of how small the distance is.

Likewise, with your question, you could never eat yourself fully. You

would always have a small portion remaining to eat. Whatever you are

using to eat with, (teeth or otherwise) that portion, being part of your

body, would need to be an eater and not an eatee.?? Your teeth

can't be the mouth and the meal at the same time and in the same space.

So at some point you will end up with a minute piece of tooth

with nothing it can eat and no way to do it. So, therefore, if there

is any portion remaining, no matter how small, you can't totally disappear

and would not be invisible.

I have an old dog that tries this everyday, but he never disappears. :rofl:

[Milan -]

Ok. 

I'm gonna take the stance that you will completely disappear.  This is of course, assuming that you know the proper way to eat yourself, i.e. which body parts should be eaten first, and which should be eaten later.  It may also be wise to have someone assist you, as after your left arm is finished, it will be rather hard to use your right arm to feed it to yourself. 

Keep yourself well-hydrated during this, as your body will need liquids to ensure the proper functioning of your digestive system.

Now, considering that each time your body parts pass through your digestive tract, they get broken down more and more, eventually, even the toughest parts of your body (bones, teeth), will become a nice yellow nutritional slop, due to being chewed, swallowed, and passed through enzymes in your stomach and your small intestine.  I advise you to collect this slop each time it passes out your anus, as you need to eat it again and again.

Eventually, after being passed through your digestive tract enough, the enzymes which you secrete will do their job, and take apart every single protein, lipid, and carbohydrate, leaving you with innumerable monomers, nucleic bases; the basic components of any living thing.  After passing through you for the final time, you'll end up with a tub full of liquid goo, which can be left outside to evaporate (after all, you ARE 80%-90% water).  The solid remnants after evaporation will be no more significant than dust.  Should be good fertilizer for plants, although if you wish, you can leave the dust in the tub to blow away in the wind.

As a clarification, as your body digests things and subsequently uses the nutrients obtained to create energy, it creates water as a byproduct.  The whole cellular respiration process generates H2O as a waste product, therefore, I estimate that perhaps 95% of your total body mass would simply evaporate as water, assuming that your metabolic processes continued normally as you were eating yourself.

That's about the best you can do for "disappearing".  Your body cannot produce enough energy and has insufficient density to undergo nuclear fusion.  If it did, you could simply vanish, converting all your mass into energy in one brilliant flash (and leaving a sizable crater where you last stood).

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narrow this done into maybe one paragraph and u have a chance, coz right u owe me money for trying to read that essay :pinch:

[zhangm Supervisor]

:sleep:

Yeah, I used to have attention span problems too.

Back when I was 7...

How to disappear:

- You break your body down into its constituent parts, i.e. water, amino acids, monomers of various sugars, etc. After the water evaporates, you're left with a thin film of dusty stuff which blows away.

- Once you're all broken down, your water content evaporates. This accounts for up to 95% of the loss of mass (humans are around 80% water, plus whatever water you created while digesting and metabolising yourself).

- You also lose (an insignificant) amount of mass through metabolism, converting your matter into energy, which is lost to your surrounding environment.

[riahc3]

Bah my "Why do guys have nipples?" thread was better and longer :p

[Fred Derf Veteran]

You can't eat much more than two legs and one arm and still be able to feed yourself, on the assumption that you could prevent yourself from bleeding to death.

Since you could not eat that much in one day then you would continue to lose mass through normal bodily waste functions. However, you would not completely disappear.

This thread, however, is a little too silly for Neowin.

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