Please, for the sake of decency, re-read your posts as if you are someone else. Pretend that you have no idea what you are thinking and must, therefore, infer your intent from the words that you have written.
It seems clear to me that your first post mentioned nothing about wanting to know the chemical/biological reactions in your body. You simply wanted to understand how the results of your experiment came about.
Yes, you did introduce a new question in your third post, but...
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Originally posted by Supple Cow
Eventually. But 1) I'm asking about a glass of water, and 2) I weighed myself minutes after a drank it. What I'm curious about is what body processes occur in the moments after you drink water. (And if those processes sufficiently explain my pseudo-experiment.) I realize that there could be flaws with the scale, and that MAYBE I was standing on a slightly different part of it or leaning or something, but I don't think I did it enough to make a 3-lb difference. I was playing with the scale all weekend and I was standing on it pretty consistently by the time I did the water thing.
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Okay, so it seems pretty clear that you're still holding on to the idea that your experiment was not flawed and that there must be some scientific explanation to your missing mass.
The next post you made was in response to
saltfish:
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Originally posted by saltfish
This isn't magic, no smoke, no mirrors. If you ingest 5 pounds of water you are 5 pounds heavier.
End of story..
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Originally posted by Supple Cow
Whoa, but that glass definitely did NOT hold 5 lbs of water.
I mean, I felt a little dehydrated before I had that first glass and I was extremely relieved after I drank it. I know that that means some kind of necessary body processes were taking place (like my tissues were being supplied with oxygen or some such biological goodness) but I'm not sure exactly what those processes are. I was hoping that somebody on TFP (a doctor or biologist or something) would know and be able to tell me.
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Whoa, but why do you still care about the volume of the glass of water? Maybe because you
still maintain that your experiment was not in error?
After all this, there was only one other post where you mention your chemical/biological question and it was off handed, like:
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Originally posted by Supple Cow
Okay, okay. But that's what I'm asking! Can somebody describe the transformation of water when we drink it (if one occurs at all)? What does the stuff we don't urinate turn into? (I'm looking for a really specific answer here.)
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You'll note that this is the only post where you asked this question without mentioning your experiment and that, from this, you expected us to assume that you had given up the assertion that your experiemnt was accurate. However, you didn't say anything about it, specifically, like "Okay, so I screwed up my experiment," or anything of the sort. You could easily have still been asking these questions to support an experiment that everyone else on this board agrees was most likely erroneous!
Only then did I step in and conjecture that you still entertained this notion and waited for a definite comfirmation or denial.
Of course, that's when the shit hit the fan, for no reason...
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Originally posted by Supple Cow
[sarcastic femaleness] No, actually - I was no longer entertaining that notion, thank you. Perhaps I should have asked "what processes occur when you drink water" a few more times so as to emphasize that I was no longer asking for people to tell me I had measured incorrectly. I mean, I only got around to asking it twice. [/sarcastic femaleness]
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If you wanted to "emphasize that [you were] no longer asking for people to tell [you you] had measured incorrectly," why didn't you simply say so, instead of surreptitiously pretending that you had never told us why you were asking all of this in the first place in the desperate hopes that we'd all somehow forget...
Believe me, I didn't enjoy reenacting this whole thread for you all. I'm starting to see some angry faces around here but I honestly see no reason for it...
edit - for some reason, angle brackets didn't show up so I replaced them with square brackets...