blast me off, fam
Submitted 11 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl 11 months ago
FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee 11 months 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‽
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 11 months 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
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 11 months ago
Most LD50 measurements are listed as mg/kg.
flora_explora@beehaw.org 11 months ago
My first thought was gram times second times meter per kilogram xD
rockerface@lemm.ee 11 months ago
So what you’re saying is there’s a 50% chance of me eating 100 frosted cupcakes and surviving
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
The image had me at 100 frosted. I didn’t care after that.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If you’re heavier than 150lbs, the chance is even higher than that!
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 11 months ago
Over the course of 2 weeks, yes.
Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Huh. I guess I’ve been lucky with those quarts of vodka.
Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
YaDownWitCPP@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
plactagonic@sopuli.xyz 11 months 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.
Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 11 months ago
It’s perfect for Canadians
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Do you not do not science? You obviously use pounds for not science. /s
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Ohhh, Murikan units, fyi:
1 US quart (qt) = 0.946352946 liters (l)
So, not exactly breakfast, but a nice desert after dinner.
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months 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)
Aux@lemmy.world 11 months ago
US doesn’t use imperial units, US is using US customary units, or something like that.
bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months 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
Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 11 months 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?
set_secret@lemmy.world 11 months 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?
amelia@feddit.de 11 months ago
These numbers look very questionable. Twice as much salt as alcohol to kill someone? I’m sorry but I call bullshit.
Umbrias@beehaw.org 11 months 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.
amelia@feddit.de 11 months ago
According to Wikipedia, the lethal dose of table salt is 0.5-1g/kg, not 10 as stated in the post.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 11 months 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.
breadsmasher@lemmy.world 11 months ago
wtf ive drank vastly more vodka than that, why am I still living
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
GluWu@lemm.ee 11 months 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.
Texas_Hangover@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Quart of vodka my ass! We call that “breakfast”
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Calm down, Lazerpig
meowMix2525@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Username checks out
pseudonym@monyet.cc 11 months ago
Now I want a 250 ft long sub…
CyberSyndicalist@hexbear.net 11 months ago
I’ll just have the 249 ft long one, don’t want to overdo the sodium
agent_flounder@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Let’s see em doordash that
WolfLink@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
I think if I ate 175 pounds of cured meat, the sodium isn’t what would kill me.
Femcowboy@lemm.ee 11 months ago
If only a quart of vodka actually did that.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 11 months ago
gms/kg
The what now
Agent641@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Google management suite.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 11 months ago
Mmmmmmmm, 50,000 potato chips.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Okay, I’m in. Where is the bacon so I can test this empirically?
Legend@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Even tho i hate cupcakes the 100 one looks easy enough .
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
TIMMAY@lemmy.world 11 months ago
just clench your butt cheeks and power through!
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 11 months ago
LD 50 is tested on animals so it’s not quite a 1 to 1.
moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
if you plan on eating an entire cylinder of table salt and nothing else you amaze me
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I only saw a cropped picture and thought it was the recipe for Rum Ham.
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Ah, the extra spicy kind. ;)
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s a LOT more salt and a little less ethanol than I would have thought.
Fosheze@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, but I’d have thought it would be an order of magnitude less than that.
hinterlufer@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 11 months ago
LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 11 months ago
Uncle Harry, don’t eat that!
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
100 frosted cupcakes
Man… I am so glad I don’t like frosting.
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The hell kind of vector is a gram meter second?
Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
It’s about 1/1000 of a meter-second.
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I thought that was a μgms