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The hell kind of vector is a gram meter second per kilogram
gms/kg
That doesn't look right
lb
Ugh, at least I've heard of that
quart
Was this chart made by a mediaeval apothecary?
cylinder
Alright, what the fuck‽
It’s an American. Ld50 is in g/kg. Quarts are our magic bullshit, but idk why they used it vodka is in fifths and handles (750mL/1.5L respectively). Table salt comes in a standard cylindrical container consisting of about enough to kill every other person that weighs 10.7 stone.
I'm guessing a fifth is like a fifth of a gallon, but handles‽
You are correct. A handle is double that. It’s big enough the bottle has a handle on it
Seems like a perfectly cromulent unit of measurement
The only thing I'll defend here is cylinder, because we actually all get our salt in cylinders, so it's a legitimately useful comparison in this one specific instance
Most LD50 measurements are listed as mg/kg.
My first thought was gram times second times meter per kilogram xD
So what you're saying is there's a 50% chance of me eating 100 frosted cupcakes and surviving
The image had me at 100 frosted. I didn't care after that.
If you're heavier than 150lbs, the chance is even higher than that! (And you definitely will be by the time you've eaten 100 cupcakes)
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Huh. I guess I’ve been lucky with those quarts of vodka.
I think that one’s off. Ethanol has a LD50 of like 7.06 and vodka is also at around 40% by volume too. Also because I’ve cleared plenty of quarts before I stopped that.
I think there's also the amount in the body at one time to consider, I don't think many people aren't downing an entire quart of liquor in one straight shot.
Sounds like your college experience and mine were slightly different. :/ You're probably healthier for it.
go visit a pub that's in a close vicinity to a university
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I love that half is in metric and other half has pounds, foots and quarts.
My metric wired brain just don't understand it.
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Ohhh, Murikan units, fyi:
1 US quart (qt) = 0.946352946 liters (l)
So, not exactly breakfast, but a nice desert after dinner.
The thing I find hilarious about this is alcohol in the US is often measured in ml, and usually sold at 750 or 1500ml as opposed to quarts
Soda is in ounces until it reaches a liter. Alcohol is ml until you get to 40 ounces. Milk is always pints, half gallons, and gallons. Why?
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The relentless muddling of metric with imperial measurements is not only bewildering but an absolute affront to rationality.
When dealing with the critical precision of LD-50 values, why persist with this nonsensical jumble instead of adopting the metric system entirely?
The table's careless presentation of 'gms/Kg' without specifying units in each entry is a grotesque oversight.
Is this some cruel American prank designed to torment and confuse the rest of the world?
These numbers look very questionable. Twice as much salt as alcohol to kill someone? I'm sorry but I call bullshit.
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Technically, LD50 specifies a time of death within 2 weeks of the consumption. That is very relevant for some items on this list, but there you go. Also, Morton Tender Quick is 0.5% Sodium Nitrite so 1/22nd of a 2 lbs bag is enough to kill you and much faster and more reliably than 175 lbs of cured meat.
wtf ive drank vastly more vodka than that, why am I still living
It's gotta be wrong. Maybe that's the number for pure ethanol, in which case it would take 2.5x the volume of 80-proof (40% ABV) liquor.
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Quart of vodka my ass! We call that "breakfast"
Calm down, Lazerpig
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I think if I ate 175 pounds of cured meat, the sodium isn’t what would kill me.
Now I want a 250 ft long sub...
Let's see em doordash that
If only a quart of vodka actually did that.
Mmmmmmmm, 50,000 potato chips.
Okay, I'm in. Where is the bacon so I can test this empirically?
I only saw a cropped picture and thought it was the recipe for Rum Ham.
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if you plan on eating an entire cylinder of table salt and nothing else you amaze me
LD 50 is tested on animals so it's not quite a 1 to 1.
Even tho i hate cupcakes the 100 one looks easy enough .
Definitely seems like the easiest one on the list, but I'm pretty sure you'd vomit before you got very far past a dozen.
Also the LD50 of 100 is for someone who's 150lbs. That's fairly light for an adult who's capable of eating a lot of cupcakes.
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That's a LOT more salt and a little less ethanol than I would have thought.
That's the amount of salt required to kill you. You're going to be having a really bad time long before you hit that.
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From what I've found on safety datasheets it should be more like 3 g/kg. The numbers on this seem a bit off in general.
Uncle Harry, don't eat that!
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