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US Objects To the Kilogram
Velcroman1 writes "For 130 years, the kilogram has weighed precisely one kilogram. Hasn't it? The US government isn't so sure. The precise weight of the kilogram is based on a platinum-iridium cylinder manufactured 130 years ago; it's kept in a vault in France at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures. Forty of the units were manufactured at the time, to standardize the measure of weight. But due to material degradation and the effects of quantum physics, the weight of those blocks has changed over time. That's right, the kilogram no longer weighs 1 kilogram, according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology. And it's time to move to a different standard anyway. A proposed revision would remove the final connection to that physical bit of matter, said Ambler Thompson, a NIST scientist involved in the international effort. 'We get rid of the last artifact.'"
You totally stole my comment. Or saved me the effort. Or whatever.
Someone had to do it.
Weighted on Earth. The only Earth in the universe. Bad idea.
Perhaps something more universal, like with a centrifuge where the pull of 1 liter of water at X length from center at Y RPMS. Better yet, we need to our measurement system redefined based on all universal constants.
Life is not for the lazy.