blast me off, fam
Kusimulkku, gms/kg
The what now
Dasus, Grams of substance per kilograms of bodyweight.
Kusimulkku, gms
grams
What is this heresy
Dasus, 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.
Agent641, Google management suite.
set_secret, 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?
WolfLink, I think if I ate 175 pounds of cured meat, the sodium isn’t what would kill me.
ShaggySnacks, Mmmmmmmm, 50,000 potato chips.
FiniteBanjo, 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.
Legend, Even tho i hate cupcakes the 100 one looks easy enough .
ilinamorato, 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, just clench your butt cheeks and power through!
Kolanaki, 
100 frosted cupcakes
Man… I am so glad I don’t like frosting.
amelia, These numbers look very questionable. Twice as much salt as alcohol to kill someone? I’m sorry but I call bullshit.
Aux, Salt doesn’t do much to the human body.
amelia,
Aux, 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.
Umbrias, 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, According to Wikipedia, the lethal dose of table salt is 0.5-1g/kg, not 10 as stated in the post.
Umbrias, Across what dose period between the two? A lethal bolus dose is smaller than a lethal two week evenly distributed dose.
Evil_Shrubbery, Ohhh, Murikan units, fyi:
1 US quart (qt) = 0.946352946 liters (l)
So, not exactly breakfast, but a nice desert after dinner.
bl_r, 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, 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?
Aux, The real question is why US have fake pints?
Texas_Hangover, Quart of vodka my ass! We call that “breakfast”
mnemonicmonkeys, Calm down, Lazerpig
meowMix2525, Username checks out
Reddfugee42, The hell kind of vector is a gram meter second per kilogram
Leate_Wonceslace, 
It’s about 1/1000 of a meter-second.
Hope that helps. 💝
hsdkfr734r,
FozzyOsbourne, 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, 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.
FozzyOsbourne, I’m guessing a fifth is like a fifth of a gallon, but handles‽
captainlezbian, You are correct. A handle is double that. It’s big enough the bottle has a handle on it
FozzyOsbourne, Seems like a perfectly cromulent unit of measurement
starman2112, 
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
rockerface, So what you’re saying is there’s a 50% chance of me eating 100 frosted cupcakes and surviving
CosmicTurtle0, The image had me at 100 frosted. I didn’t care after that.
plactagonic, I love that half is in metric and other half has pounds, foots and quarts.
My metric wired brain just don’t understand it.
captainlezbian, Do you not do not science? You obviously use pounds for not science. /s
pseudonym, Now I want a 250 ft long sub…
agent_flounder, 
Let’s see em doordash that
CyberSyndicalist, 
I’ll just have the 249 ft long one, don’t want to overdo the sodium
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