The kilo is loosing weight!

Kilo prototype mysteriously loses weight By JAMEY KEATEN, Associated Press Writer Wed Sep 12, 1:00 PM ET PARIS - A kilogram just isn't what it used to be. The 118-year-old cylinder that is the international prototype for the metric mass, kept tightly under lock and key outside Paris, is mysteriously losing weight — if ever so slightly. Physicist Richard Davis of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sevres, southwest of Paris, says the reference kilo appears to have lost 50 micrograms compared with the average of dozens of copies. (Yahoo News)

Woohoo, so we are not really getting heavier! OK, put down that double fudge ripple sundae, you are not made of a platinum and iridium alloy!