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[–] Reddfugee42 76 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The hell kind of vector is a gram meter second per kilogram

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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

Hope that helps. 💝

[–] Reddfugee42 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I thought that was a μgms

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

you mean mgms. μgms would be 1/1000000 gms

[–] [email protected] 67 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

gms? Wtf.

gram [g]

The gram (originally gramme; SI unit symbol g)

I propose g/kg body weight.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I'm guessing a fifth is like a fifth of a gallon, but handles‽

[–] captainlezbian 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You are correct. A handle is double that. It’s big enough the bottle has a handle on it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Seems like a perfectly cromulent unit of measurement

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Most LD50 measurements are listed as mg/kg.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

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

[–] ilinamorato 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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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[–] [email protected] 51 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Hobbes_Dent 33 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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 23 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

Sounds like your college experience and mine were slightly different. :/ You're probably healthier for it.

[–] shneancy 4 points 6 months ago

go visit a pub that's in a close vicinity to a university

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Ohhh, Murikan units, fyi:

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

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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 18 points 6 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?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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.

[–] breadsmasher 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] SpaceNoodle 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (4 children)

gms/kg

The what now

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

If only a quart of vodka actually did that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Quart of vodka my ass! We call that "breakfast"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Calm down, Lazerpig

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Username checks out

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Mmmmmmmm, 50,000 potato chips.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Now I want a 250 ft long sub...

[–] agent_flounder 3 points 6 months ago

Let's see em doordash that

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

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

[–] Blue_Morpho 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] ilinamorato 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

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

[–] SpaceNoodle 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Fosheze 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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 3 points 6 months ago

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

[–] hinterlufer 3 points 6 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.

[–] Daft_ish 4 points 6 months ago

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

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