There's been a lot of talk on the boards lately about the evils of the scale and how misleading the numbers it spits out can be.

Many of us have read Why The Scales Lie.

Many of us lift weights and know what an influence that can have on scale readings (although I'd like to take this opportunity to point out that muscles is not heavier than fat. It's more dense - roughly 22% more dense - but it's not heavier!!!).

Many of us have started campaigns calling for solidarity echewing the hourly, daily, weekly ritual of weighing ourselves.

Campaign I, The Uprising
Campaign II, Inching To War
Campaign III, The War of the Ketostix
Campaign IV, The Body Composition Crusade
Campaign V, Insurrection
Campaign VI, The Uprising Reprise
Campaign VII, The Body Composition Crusades Continue

And yet, for the most part, we mark progress by pounds lost. That's what most of us update in our profiles. That's how many of us define our goals.

Ever wonder why that is?

It's just a number.

Then again, we live in a time when numbers are everything.

If I lived on Mercury I'd weigh 66.5 lbs. I wonder if that would make me a better human being?

Your weight on other planets

Nat