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we didn't Barry's wife Nellie has sent her husband out to pick up some chicken [Barrie and Nellie standing in living room]

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for dinner but Nellie doesn't like to make anything easy on Barry rather than

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going to the local grocery store that conveniently located on the corner she [Corner store appears]

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asked him to pick up a chicken on planet Jupiter ugh what a hassle she's also

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quite particular when it comes to the specifications for this chicken it must

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be exactly fifteen hundred grams no more no less [Barry holding chicken specifications]

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just things you have to put up but dutiful Barry heads up the door pops in

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his supersonic rocket ship and hightails it to Jupiter by the way you can send us [Barry jumps on rocket ship]

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angry emails about our time-space errors some other time we're almost concerned

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about mass and weight right now anyway Barry gets to Jupiter go to the nearest [Barry in local grocery store]

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galactic grocery and picked up a roast chicken you make sure the guy behind the

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counter hacks off a leg and a bit of one wing just enough to get it down to 1,500

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grams and be on the safe side he also swings by Abed infinity and beyond and [Barry stood at bed, infinity and beyond]

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plops the thing onto a bathroom scale he gets a reading with 7.0 two-pound well

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content that he has satisfied his wife's demand Barry heads back to earth you

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just got to walk in the front door with chicken when panic sets in wait a minute [Barry holding chicken at front door]

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he might have weighed the chicken on Jupiter but just don't think way

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differently on other planets yeah nope so just to make sure it Barry takes his [Rocket ship flying by highway]

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rocket ship down the three to the Bed Bath & Beyond and welcome on his car is

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all the way in the garage and throws the chicken onto a bathroom scale Oh three

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pounds even well before devolving into full-blown panic mode Barry crosses his

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fingers does little prayer and takes the chicken across the street to mass are us [Barry walks into mass r us store with chicken]

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what they have those where he finds that his chicken is 1,500 grams Oh what's

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going on here it's very stepped into an alternate

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universe well it probably wouldn't be that surprising we did but no what's

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going on is that mass and weight are not the same thing mass the measure of the

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amount of stuff that a knob has never changes whether on Jupiter or [Mass definition appears]

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earth that hacked up chicken is always going to be 1500 grams unless you start

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hacking away it is more but weight is affected by gravity an object's weight [Man hacking at a chicken]

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is determined using Newton's which account for how much an object is being

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pulled downward so while the chicken might weigh 7.02 pounds on Jupiter it [Chicken on a scale by Jupiter]

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weighs 3 pounds on earth while maintaining exactly the same measure of

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mass but relieved and a bit covered in the chicken grease buries its home and

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proudly brings his chicken in the front door his evening appears to be looking [Barry appears in living room with chicken]

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up until Nelly realizes they were out of milk

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