quarantine 'em

No, no. You just set it in 1890s Paris. An intellectual mystery at the height of la belle epoque.

I wrote a short story where the kilogram rod was actually the universe’s preferred reference frame, and all magical attempts at teleportation ended in disaster until they found this out.

Will the universe grow more massive every hour their demands are not met?

I was just saying that someone should do that! cause I was explaining the prototype kilogram to a hospitalized roommate

“For every hour you fail to meet my demands, I shave off ten grams, thereby increasing your body mass by 1%.” <cue evil laughter>

The Seers Catalogue already did that as an interactive fiction thing http://www.seerscatalogue.com/  though they're stealing the Imperial Pound, rather than the Kilo, for metaphysical purposes, and it's a bit short

There was a Swedish movie where their national kilogram was held-up in customs on the way to be compared with the IPK. The customs officers wanted to open the sealed container.

http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=917 …