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LD 50 is tested on animals so it’s not quite a 1 to 1.
I only saw a cropped picture and thought it was the recipe for Rum Ham.
Ah, the extra spicy kind. ;)
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?
I think if I ate 175 pounds of cured meat, the sodium isn’t what would kill me.
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.
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.
go visit a pub that’s in a close vicinity to a university
Sounds like your college experience and mine were slightly different. :/ You’re probably healthier for it.
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
Okay, I’m in. Where is the bacon so I can test this empirically?
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
If only a quart of vodka actually did that.
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.
gms/kg
The what now
Grams of substance per kilograms of bodyweight.
gms
grams
What is this heresy
Well obviously written by someone who was brought up using imperial rather than metric.
But what ld50 means is grams per kilogram of bodyweight. That’s what the poster is trying to say.
Google management suite.
if you plan on eating an entire cylinder of table salt and nothing else you amaze me
Uncle Harry, don’t eat that!
Even tho i hate cupcakes the 100 one looks easy enough .
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.
just clench your butt cheeks and power through!
