• @[email protected]
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    4 months ago

    This seems like a XKCD / Randall Munroe “What if” kind of question. I.e., how long would a person survive if all of the water inside them was turned into wine?

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      4 months ago

      Wine is 15% alcohol.

      Human are 60% water.

      Human weight around 70kg

      70 x 0.6 = 42 L

      42 x 0.15 = 6.3 L of pure alcohol.

      You’d probably die before ingesting that amount tho

    • @[email protected]
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      994 months ago

      A quick search suggests that blood is 80% water. Turning that into wine at a weak concentration of 5.5% results in around at 14.5% BAC which is over 10 times greater than the highest ever recorded, so it would be certainly lethal.

      • Mayor Poopington
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        424 months ago

        Wine is 80-90% water, but all that alcohol and other flavor compounds directly in your bloodstream would not be good.

        • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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          264 months ago

          Pretty much immediately. You wouldn’t even know it.

          Acidic pH like wine denatures proteins. It would destroy you on the cellular level, basic cell functions would cease to work. You could say it would stop your breathing or cause an instant heart attack, but it would be more like as if it fried your brain and heart like an egg in an instant.

          • @[email protected]
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            43 months ago

            The brain isn’t bathed in blood though, because of the blood-brain barrier. So if we’re limiting to only the blood turning to wine, it’ll take a couple seconds of excruciating pain before the brain goes night-night from lack of oxygen.

            • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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              33 months ago

              Yeah, but there is water in every brain cell as well.

              If all the water goes, every cell goes simultaneously.

        • @[email protected]
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          94 months ago

          I have a different question. How much wine extract can i add to the water in my body to be able to correctly state i exist out of 80% wine and still live.

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            114 months ago

            That’s much easier. If you weigh 100kg (220lb) it’s W/(100 + W) = 0.8, and solving for W gives 400.

            If you eat 400 kg of wine powder then 80% of your mass will be wine.

            This will kill you, and it doesn’t actually matter what powder you choose to eat.

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              84 months ago

              You are saying that you would have to eat four times your body weight of wine powder to turn your blood into wine. That doesn’t make sense.

              • @[email protected]
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                44 months ago

                It kinda does its just not what you expected (and not what the question meant). In a 500kg mixture of you (100kg) and wine (400kg), exactly 80% of that mixture is wine and 20% is you.

                To answer the actually question you’d need to know how much extract you need to turn 1L of blood into 1L of wine and I’m to lazy for that math.

      • M137
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        14 months ago

        You somehow didn’t answer the question, and the thing you said instead is completely obvious to anyone.

        If there’s a cousin of Jesus that turns people’s brains into porridge, you’ve certainly been on the receiving end of that power.

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      4 months ago

      Seconds as wine amd water do not have the same consistency. Your blood cells won’t move effectively enough and a BAC of 6% is extremely fatal as most will die at .6%

        • Kairos
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          54 months ago

          To be specific, it’d likely immediately fuck up the electrical signals in the brain, thus killing the brain.

          • @[email protected]
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            34 months ago

            That’s an understatement, it would also add a bunch of alcohol and all kinds of sugars and proteins inside every single cell. I bet that would instantly mess up every single biological process.