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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • Reddfugee42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The hell kind of vector is a gram meter second?

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    • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s about 1/1000 of a meter-second.

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      • Reddfugee42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I thought that was a μgms

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  • hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    gms? Wtf.

    gram [g]

    The gram (originally gramme; SI unit symbol g)

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    • FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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‽

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      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        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.

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      • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        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

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    • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Most LD50 measurements are listed as mg/kg.

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    • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My first thought was gram times second times meter per kilogram xD

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  • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So what you’re saying is there’s a 50% chance of me eating 100 frosted cupcakes and surviving

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    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The image had me at 100 frosted. I didn’t care after that.

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    • ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you’re heavier than 150lbs, the chance is even higher than that!

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    • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Over the course of 2 weeks, yes.

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  • Zeppo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Huh. I guess I’ve been lucky with those quarts of vodka.

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    • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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      • YaDownWitCPP@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        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.

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  • plactagonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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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    • Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s perfect for Canadians

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Do you not do not science? You obviously use pounds for not science. /s

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  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ohhh, Murikan units, fyi:

    1 US quart (qt) = 0.946352946 liters (l)

    So, not exactly breakfast, but a nice desert after dinner.

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    • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ah I got thrown off by it being a US unit as I know in the US for some braindead reason they call a pint a “half quart(er gallon)” so I was thinking 1.136 litres, but yeah the US decided to not even use the same imperial units as anywhere else which still used them at the time just to be extra special (and scam people into thinking they were getting more than they wore, which sets the tone for the US I guess)

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      • Aux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        US doesn’t use imperial units, US is using US customary units, or something like that.

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    • bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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

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      • Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        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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  • set_secret@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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?

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  • amelia@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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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    • Umbrias@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Why would salt be more lethal than alcohol? You have a lot of water to displace to deal with it, and you can drink yet more water to do so as it will take a while to effect you.

      Alcohol is just poison and the act of processing it does damage. Drinking water to dilute it is less effective as it kills pretty fast.

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      • amelia@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        According to Wikipedia, the lethal dose of table salt is 0.5-1g/kg, not 10 as stated in the post.

        en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_poisoning

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    • Aux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Salt doesn’t do much to the human body.

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      • amelia@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yes it does and the lethal dose is actually 0.5-1g per kg, not 10.

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  • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Technically, LD50 specifies a time of death within 2 weeks of the consumption. I don’t expect that would matter for most of this list, but there you go.

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  • breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    wtf ive drank vastly more vodka than that, why am I still living

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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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      • GluWu@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        150*5=750g

        750g/0.78g/ml = ~960ml of pure ethanol

        So more like >2 liters of vodka. Which sounds right based on my experiences consuming 1.75l.

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  • Texas_Hangover@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Quart of vodka my ass! We call that “breakfast”

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    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Calm down, Lazerpig

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    • meowMix2525@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Username checks out

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  • pseudonym@monyet.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Now I want a 250 ft long sub…

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    • CyberSyndicalist@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ll just have the 249 ft long one, don’t want to overdo the sodium

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    • agent_flounder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Let’s see em doordash that

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  • WolfLink@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think if I ate 175 pounds of cured meat, the sodium isn’t what would kill me.

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  • Femcowboy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If only a quart of vodka actually did that.

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    gms/kg

    The what now

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Google management suite.

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Grams of substance per kilograms of bodyweight.

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      • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        gms

        grams

        What is this heresy

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  • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Mmmmmmmm, 50,000 potato chips.

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  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Okay, I’m in. Where is the bacon so I can test this empirically?

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  • Legend@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Even tho i hate cupcakes the 100 one looks easy enough .

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    • ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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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      • TIMMAY@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        just clench your butt cheeks and power through!

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  • Daft_ish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    LD 50 is tested on animals so it’s not quite a 1 to 1.

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  • moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    if you plan on eating an entire cylinder of table salt and nothing else you amaze me

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  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I only saw a cropped picture and thought it was the recipe for Rum Ham.

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    • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ah, the extra spicy kind. ;)

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s a LOT more salt and a little less ethanol than I would have thought.

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    • Fosheze@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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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      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah, but I’d have thought it would be an order of magnitude less than that.

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    • hinterlufer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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  • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sort of relevant

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  • LoamImprovement@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Uncle Harry, don’t eat that!

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    100 frosted cupcakes

    Man… I am so glad I don’t like frosting.

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