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The hell kind of vector is a gram meter second per kilogram
It’s about 1/1000 of a meter-second.
Hope that helps. 💝
I thought that was a μgms
you mean mgms. μgms would be 1/1000000 gms
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
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
“$6 shots? Can I get that in my own glass?” [They roll a novelty shot glass lawn ornament around the bar]
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)
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?
The real question is why US have fake pints?
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)
US doesn’t use imperial units, US is using US customary units, or something like that.
I love that half is in metric and other half has pounds, foots and quarts.
My metric wired brain just don’t understand it.
Do you not do not science? You obviously use pounds for not science. /s
It’s perfect for Canadians
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.
Salt doesn’t do much to the human body.
No, it doesn’t. Wikipedia doesn’t cite any credible source for that number, instead it links to a book, which doesn’t cite anything.
LD50 for sodium chloride is 3g/kg. It is part of MSDS and is based on an actual scientific study.
It’s time to update Wiki.
If only a quart of vodka actually did that.
I think if I ate 175 pounds of cured meat, the sodium isn’t what would kill me.
Quart of vodka my ass! We call that “breakfast”
Calm down, Lazerpig
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Now I want a 250 ft long sub…
I’ll just have the 249 ft long one, don’t want to overdo the sodium
Let’s see em doordash that
Mmmmmmmm, 50,000 potato chips.
Okay, I’m in. Where is the bacon so I can test this empirically?
if you plan on eating an entire cylinder of table salt and nothing else you amaze me
