Since I drink so much Coca-Cola, apparently

  • @Delphia@lemmy.world
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    684 months ago

    If you pour water on iron it rusts it, imagine what all that water is doing to the iron in your body!

    • slazer2au
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      264 months ago

      Dihydrogen monoxide has a 100% fatality rate. You shouldn’t joke about it.

      • @portuga@lemmy.world
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        144 months ago

        A single water molecule has more hydrogen atoms than all stars known in our solar system (totally stealing this joke)

      • @TheAvarageNerd@lemmy.world
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        54 months ago

        I wanted to counter this with the fact that you and me are both still alive, so the rate is only approaching 100%, but probably never quite there. Then I did a safety google, and got to learn that fatality rate apparently doesn’t care about the time until death. So as long as I don’t assume I’m immortal, your fact still holds true. But then I remembered that some jellyfish and sponges are considered to be be more or less immortal. Which raises the question: do we count beings which will most probably die out due to the expansion of our own sun as part of that 100% rate?

        • slazer2au
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          44 months ago

          But then I remembered that some jellyfish and sponges are considered to be be more or less immortal

          I think we are approaching Ship of Theseus territory.

          But more specifically I was referring to the human rate.

      • SkaveRat
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        24 months ago

        Terrorist will drink that stuff before attacks

  • @empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    244 months ago

    fun fact: hemoglobin (red blood cells) transport oxygen by… well, basically “rusting” an iron based protein that bonds to oxygen.

    if you stop rusting, you die! yippee!

  • @jaybone@lemmy.world
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    244 months ago

    Your stomach acid can break down bone. The only safe way to survive is to remove your stomach from your body.

    • SkaveRat
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      84 months ago

      Okay, done. Now what?

      Gotta ask, when exactly does this bleeding stop?

    • ✺roguetrick✺
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      34 months ago

      That’s what always made me amused about people talking about crocodiles and alligators being apex predators because their stomach acid was strong enough to break down bone. People did not seem to be aware that their own stomach acid was of a similar pH and could also break down bone.

  • @Grass@sh.itjust.works
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    94 months ago

    I just took that to mean I can drink from the tub of food grade 85% phosphoric acid we have at the brewery