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Knowledge is knowing that a few drops of gasoline contains all the calories you'd need in a day
Wisdom is knowing that it isn't a good idea to drink gas
Pedantry is fact checking a comment, figuring out it would actually take around a cup (or 1/4 liter) of gasoline, then figuring out how to convert that to drops and pointing out it would actually take close to 4,700 drops, not just a few.
Smart-assery is replying how it can still be consumed as just a single, very large drop.
Smart-assery is replying that gasoline doesn't have enough surface tension to form such a large drop.
Lemmy-ing is recreating a typical Reddit thread but making sure every comment points out that they’re self-aware.
What if you put it in a balloon and pop it into a funnel aimed into your mouth and you have no gag reflex?
Hmmm let's see, you need roughly 2.39kcal or 10kJ of fuel a day.
Gasoline has an energy density of 45 MJ/kg.
https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Energy_density
Sciencing those together means you need 0.00022 kg or 0.22g of gasoline a day
Gasoline has a mass density of 0.7475 g/cm^3, more sciencing means you need 0.294 cm^3 of gasoline by volume.
https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/fuels-densities-specific-volumes-d_166.html (average across range and convert to g/cm^3)
Here let's pull a number out of our butts, let's say a drop is a sphere with a diameter of 5mm, so the radius is 0.25cm. Volume is 4/3 pi r^3 which comes out to 0.065 cm^3/ drop.
0.294/0.065 gives 4.5 drops.
So you'd need 5 drops of gasoline to get your days worth of energy.
Seems we're off by a factor of a thousand. Most likely you doubled up on 1Calorie = 1000 calories. (Damnit food industry, what the hell?!?) 1kcal is already converted to the base calorie, as opposed to 1kCal.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK234938/#:~:text=For%20men%20of%20reference%20body,women%2C%20it%20is%202%2C200%20kcal.
You are correct!
big Calories are conventionally uppercase, while small calories are conventionally lowercase. So 1 Calorie = 1000 calories = 1 kcal.
Stupid naming system, I know.
What ethanol percentage did you assume?