Take a "shot" of salt?

[Eli]

Some of you guys are whacked.

The LD50 for NaCl is 12,357mg/kg.

I weigh 160lbs(72.57kg).

It would take 896,747mg of salt to give a 50% chance of killing me.

897 grams is 1.97lbs.

A cup of table salt weighs 0.60lbs.

 

[JDrake]

Originally posted by: Howard

Originally posted by: joedrake

Originally posted by: dguy6789
Idiotic. Downing one cup of salt all at once has a 100% chance of killing you. Depending on the size of the salt shaker, it could be more or less than that. That is similar to saying, how much money will it take for you to jump off the Empire State building?

Doing stupid things for money has no end, does it?

Edit: If you are still alive tomorrow, be sure to let us know.

How is downing salt anything like jumping off of the Empire State building? You said yourself you may not die from chugging it, however - you are guarenteed to die from jumping off the Empire State building.
And the OP said he spit out a lot of the salt, so why mention anything about his existence tommorow?

He didn't say anything about a parachute, now did he?

How does he know that the OP didn't have a thing in his throat to catch the salt and then removed it after chugging? :roll:

 

[Eli]

^

 

[DaiShan]

$500, maybe a grand, depending on how willing I am to throw up where I am. I don't use salt on anything, so even taking salt with shots makes me gag.

 

[hjo3]

Originally posted by: kogase
My dad must not have been impressed because he reneged on his promise to give me a quarter. Ugh.

...thereby teaching you a valuable lesson about doing stupid things for money.

 

[dguy6789]

Originally posted by: Eli
Some of you guys are whacked.

The LD50 for NaCl is 12,357mg/kg.

I weigh 160lbs(72.57kg).

It would take 896,747mg of salt to give a 50% chance of killing me.

897 grams is 1.97lbs.

A cup of table salt weighs 0.60lbs.

Why not take a cup of it and report back to us?

Edit: Some people have lived when skydiving and their parachutes failed to go off.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: dguy6789

Originally posted by: Eli
Some of you guys are whacked.

The LD50 for NaCl is 12,357mg/kg.

I weigh 160lbs(72.57kg).

It would take 896,747mg of salt to give a 50% chance of killing me.

897 grams is 1.97lbs.

A cup of table salt weighs 0.60lbs.

Why not take a cup of it and report back to us?

Edit: Some people have lived when skydiving and their parachutes failed to go off.

:roll:

A cup of salt would not kill you, unless you were under 44lbs.

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: dguy6789
Idiotic. Downing one cup of salt all at once has a 100% chance of killing you. Depending on the size of the salt shaker, it could be more or less than that. That is similar to saying, how much money will it take for you to jump off the Empire State building?

Doing stupid things for money has no end, does it?

Edit: If you are still alive tomorrow, be sure to let us know.

For you

 

[clickynext]

You should know by logic that even ignoring the fact that the attempt can actually kill you in some cases, it would be impossible to swallow that much dry salt.

 

[suse920]

a 20

 

[n7]

I don't think i could actually do it, so yeah...i likely wouldn't try.

You'd have to pay me like $500+, & like half in advance :laugh:

 

[esun]

50

I don't think I'd do it for 20. If you've ever been to the beach as a child and got a mouth full of salt water, you'll know what it's like. It isn't fun. The comment about nausea was dead on.

 

[kogase]

Originally posted by: hjo3

Originally posted by: kogase
My dad must not have been impressed because he reneged on his promise to give me a quarter. Ugh.

...thereby teaching you a valuable lesson about doing stupid things for money.

And a much more valuable lesson about not trusting my Dad. Ever.