Death by Caffeine Comments
Well as soon as I posted that last thing about “being heavily linked,” a few people pointed out that I’m also linked on the AOL home page. With 137 comments on the page, the load is just too high… so if you have any comments on it, post them here!
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I’m guessing that the sucrose or electrolyte diffusion would likely kill you before the caffeine got a chance.
Now, what kind of timespan are we talking about? 179 cans in a day? In a week? In my life? Though that now seems to be a much shorter amount of time.
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shut up frenchie, lbs is fine, get a freaking calculator
1kg = 2.2lb, not the other way around… it’s a good thing us Europeans are around to do your maths for you.
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dude, what’s with the hating on euros? kilos are cool, you american fool. get out of the house once in a while.
Ok… I brew coffee with caffinated water.
I also don’t like my coffee black – but instead of using milk and suger, I use Bawls and crushed mini-thins.
How many ten ounce cups of “Black Death” would it take to kill me?
I wonder how much “Crunk Juice” it would take for Lil’ Jon to meet his demise. YAYAH!
Don’t forget your Canadian neighbours. We use kilos too.
I’m English and we invented the imperial system of weights and measures. I can work in Pounds [,stones]and Kilos, Farenheit and Celcius, Miles and Kilometers but even I know the metric system makes more sense. But then what do you expect from a country that can’t work out that 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 is then best way to organise your currency so you don’t end up with a million dollar bills and dimes? Get with the times USA you’re sooooo old fashioned!
uh??? excuse me i’m Canadian too and we dont F***ing use kilos – i think your drinking too much maple syrup or petting too many beavers
It would take about 618 cups of green tea to kill me, which is kinda weird because I LOVE green tea
man!
whats w/ everyone hating everyone!?!?! get over it! there isnt a need for personal attacks.
love yas! robin
99 shots of esspeso…. i can get to that, ive had 2 pots of as dark as i can make it coffe, so doing tht with esspreso shouldnt be to hard……. and our money sytems fine, weve got 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, 10’s 20’s and 50’s u idiot, plus most change is only used because of taxes
hows living in a perfect world robin … you loser
lov yas! johnny
Ok. I understand that monster will kill you but do’s it kill you over time like if you drink it every week or will it kill you chugging it down like like a fat guy at a buffit.
Great site! Here’s an idea. You could have the calculator make a chart that shows how many cans/bottles/whatever it would take to get to different levels, like dizziness, vision problems, hallucinations, blindness, unconciousness, and coma.
i think kyle and jamie may be the same person?
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I love this! It reminds me of the story from the 60’s or 70’s of the nuclear power supporter to offered to drink a liter of uranium (I think) in public, if someone else would agree to drink the same quantity of caffeine. Obviously, a liter of caffeine will kill you immediately, while apparently a liter of uranimum won’t, so nuclear power must be safer than coffee, right?
One improvement suggestion I would offer is that this number leaves out the real-world limitation on the rate of intake. It would take me quite a while to down 200 cans of Mountain Dew. If I chugged 20 per hour, that would be 10 hours, and I have to think that the caffeine from the first can would no longer be swimming around in my body, so I could probably drink another 10. But how long could I go?
You could add a cell to say how many cans you would drink per hour, and it could return how many hours (and cans) to death.
Let’s not concern ourselves with issues of water overload, or whatever kills those people who drink too much Gatorade while running marathons, or kidney failure, etc. Just stick to the good stuff.
The problem to doing this is the lack of science. I don’t know what the ‘half life’ of caffeine in the body is, or how long it stays in until it is neutralized / excreted / absorbed/ broken down/ whatever happens to it. But if someone can help you find that information, the math shouldn’t be that hard.
Given a rate of intake and a rate of neutralization, how long does it take your body to build up a toxic level of caffeine?
Great site!