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Re:Amazon Will Ban Sale of Apple, Google Video-Streaming Dev... by Scaevolus on Thursday October 01, 2015 @04:05PM (#10314254)
800 colas of caffeine is easily enough to kill you. 34mg caffeine/12oz Coca Cola * 800 cans = 27g. LD50 in humans is 150-200mg/kg, so 12-16g for a 80kg adult.
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Re:Amazon Will Ban Sale of Apple, Google Video-Streaming Dev... by appleflaxen on Thursday October 01, 2015 @05:32PM (#10314898)
You seem like you are knowledgeable about these things... how do they measure the LD50 in humans?
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Re:Amazon Will Ban Sale of Apple, Google Video-Streaming Dev... by ChristianBundy on Thursday October 01, 2015 @06:45PM (#10315329)
We kill mice, rats, hamsters, rabbits, and dogs with caffeine, and extrapolate the LD50 from our test data. Animal testing can be really awful.
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Re:Amazon Will Ban Sale of Apple, Google Video-Streaming Dev... by Wingman4l7 on Thursday October 01, 2015 @10:13PM (#10316243)
The alternative is not knowing the LD50 of caffeine for humans.
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