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[-] candyman337@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago

Knowledge is knowing that a few drops of gasoline contains all the calories you'd need in a day

Wisdom is knowing that it isn't a good idea to drink gas

[-] esc27@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

Pedantry is fact checking a comment, figuring out it would actually take around a cup (or 1/4 liter) of gasoline, then figuring out how to convert that to drops and pointing out it would actually take close to 4,700 drops, not just a few.

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Smart-assery is replying how it can still be consumed as just a single, very large drop.

[-] Neon@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

Smart-assery is replying that gasoline doesn't have enough surface tension to form such a large drop.

[-] TheYear2525@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Lemmy-ing is recreating a typical Reddit thread but making sure every comment points out that they’re self-aware.

[-] Ech@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

What if you put it in a balloon and pop it into a funnel aimed into your mouth and you have no gag reflex?

[-] eating3645@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hmmm let's see, you need roughly 2.39kcal or 10kJ of fuel a day.

Gasoline has an energy density of 45 MJ/kg.

https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Energy_density

Sciencing those together means you need 0.00022 kg or 0.22g of gasoline a day

Gasoline has a mass density of 0.7475 g/cm^3, more sciencing means you need 0.294 cm^3 of gasoline by volume.

https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/fuels-densities-specific-volumes-d_166.html (average across range and convert to g/cm^3)

Here let's pull a number out of our butts, let's say a drop is a sphere with a diameter of 5mm, so the radius is 0.25cm. Volume is 4/3 pi r^3 which comes out to 0.065 cm^3/ drop.

0.294/0.065 gives 4.5 drops.

So you'd need 5 drops of gasoline to get your days worth of energy.

Seems we're off by a factor of a thousand. Most likely you doubled up on 1Calorie = 1000 calories. (Damnit food industry, what the hell?!?) 1kcal is already converted to the base calorie, as opposed to 1kCal.

[-] quindraco@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

What ethanol percentage did you assume?

[-] showmewhatyougot@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I also like the version: "knowledge is knowing that the tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing that you shouldn't put it in a fruit salad"

[-] chetradley@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

The full version is:

Strength is being able to crush a tomato.
Dexterity is being able to dodge a thrown tomato.
Constitution is being able to eat a poisoned tomato and live.
Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is knowing not to use a tomato in a fruit salad.
Charisma is being able to sell someone on a tomato-based fruit salad.

"Hey, isn't salsa technically a tomato-based fruit salad?"

"Found the bard!"

[-] MxM111@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Knowledge that gasoline is poisonous is… knowledge to.

[-] punsforbuns@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Should have borrowed the hat of inteligence.

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