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Death by Coffee?
Clif Griffin writes "Slashdots question of the year, are you ready for this? No? Too bad, you'll hear me anyways. Will drinking 100 cups of coffee (the good kind, not that crappy decaf mocalatte crap) in 24 hours kill a person? Sure, there is one way we can find out but we can't let myself die under mysterious circumstances."
No.
(Disclaimer): There are days when I consume a pot or so of coffee for myself, so I am not saying this out of any prejudice. However, the thing to remember is that there *are* pharmacologically active compounds in coffee, in particular caffeine. The effects of caffeine really depend upon the person and how well their liver enzymes are induced to take care of compounds like this, but 100 cups could be enough to give you anxiety, sweats, tremors dizzyness, GI cramping, dehydration (caffeine is a diuretic), and at higher (toxic) doses even heart arrhythmias, nausea and vomiting, symptoms of CNS toxicity involving ringing ears or damped sounds and flashing light and possibly convulsions. So, can it kill you? Possibly. So, my question to you is.......why would you want to drink 100 cups of coffee in a day? This isn't some dare or weird coffee enema garbage that someone is trying to foist on you is it?
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Well, if drinking a hundred cups of coffee in twenty-four hours doesn't kill you, it'll certainly give you a wicked case of the runs.
Kind of like on the "Bambi" episode of The Young Ones back in the 80s, when Rick tries to kill himself by overdosing on a bottle of pills he's just found in the medicine cabinet.
"Vyv, Vyv, uh, can you, like, really kill yourself with laxative pills?" Neil asks his other housemate, Vyvyan, who replies, "I don't know, Neil, but I'm going to stay and find out."
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About ten grams of caffeine in a short period of time will kill you. There is about 100mg in your average cup of coffee (though it can vary wildly). So the math is right, but you'd have to suck down all one-hundred in a short period of time to get a fatal amount of it. Too much liquid, I think, you just can't process it that fast. All that would happen is you'd probably be urinating like a racehorse (caffeine is a diuretic), and and have a really bad headache to show for it at the end of the day.
;)
Over the course of 24 hours, a lot of the effect would probably be mitigated by the time span. I don't know how long it would take you to get the caffeine out of your system, maybe someone else does. Google says around 13% of the caffeine in your body is removed every hour, but I haven't a clue how correct it is. Sounds dubious.
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Spread out over 24 hours? Hmm.. that's 4.167 cups/hour.
If you were wise and countered the stimulant effect with the soothing liquid-love that is Guinness every half hour you should be in fine shape. Can't say the same about your digestive system the next day (read: "100 coffee + 48 Guinness == SplatterBum(tm)") but you'll be around to enjoy it.
disclaimer i: I'm not an MD or biologist, however I drink with the ones from work quite often.
disclaimer ii: (for your family) if he follows these directions and dies, my name is Rob Malda.
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No, but it'll let you save all your friends from a fire.
Option-Shift-K.
..in the alt.suicide.holiday Methods FAQ and have fun.
ok. april fools jokes are sometimes cool... but, get a life, punk.
(or get a multi-million dollar government research grant, and tell us the results after a 5-year study)
Yes. You will die. You probably deserve it too.
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I'm dead. But I don't think that has anything to do with any coffee I drank. Mostly because I don't drink coffee. So I guess that can't help you very much.
I bet 500 Euro (your car is on the way) on you dying http://rcm-medicine.upr.clu.edu/publications/sidne y_kaye/toxicology-of-caffeine.htm
One morning the cops showed up and asked him a few questions, because the other guy had died after drinking approximately 48 cans of coke in a 12-hour period.
So, yep, the caffiene and sugar will kill you.
Yes, yes it will. What three cases of Bawls?
After years of drinking mugs of coffee a day (strong) using my seti pint mug, I started to get pains in the chest and heart palpitations. My doc told me to cut out cafiene and now I am fine, although even just one cup of normal is enough to get my heart going again...
Paul.
but it will cost you 300 Nixon Fun-Bucks.
Oh, you mean all at once?
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IIRC the lethal caffeine dose is 10g oraly and 3.2g intravenously.
a cup of coffee contains ~80-120mg of caffine, so 100cups of coffee could well kill you...
if you drank them all simultaniously.
one after another... you'll just feel REALLY shit.
Back in my younger, experimentalist phase, I tried taking a lot of caffeine pills. I had 13, which is about 20 or 30 cups of coffee. It was an overdose.
For about an hour I had a huge, ever-increasing buzz. Then it became difficult to walk. Then I started to throw up. I was vomiting for about 10 hours straight.
Unless you want to go through the same hell that I did, lay off the massive coffee dose.
to accept the praise of personal wisdom is an affront to the very ideal i hold dear.
and my blood pressure went up to 156/106, which is quite bad, so i am now on a strict diet... so maybe, long term....
The LD50 for caffeine is estimated at 150 mg/kg body weight
or approximately 10 grams for the averaged size human. There is about 125 mg in 1 cup of coffee, which is about 12.5g/100 cups. So yes, there is little over a 50% chance it could kill you.
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Hmm, this needs to be more scientific. Why don't you just shorten the wait and eat 50 2 cup caffeine pills. On second thought a quick google search turns up this. Make sure you write things down fast so we know how far you got!
Are we takin' 8oz mugs or mega feed a small family of four in a thirdworld somewere for the cost of a cup of joe sized
i tried it yesterday, and am writing this from the morgue...
yep it works.
I've done this. I'm not dead. ...I don't think. Omg!...
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When I quit, I reduce my intake by halves -- in other works, today a pot, tomorrow half a pot, and so on, until it's just a sip, and then nothing.
That makes it fairly painless to shake the monkey (no headaches).
And then it's extra fun to drink that next pot a few weeks later... ;)
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I predict you'll be urinating a lot, often, and that your urine will smell of coffee.
...it might.
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...Sounds like a job for MythBusters!
Good Lord, 100 cups? the constant shitting alone would polish me off...yesyes AF.
Maybe the guy had died after drinking approximately 48 cans of coke in a 12-hour period, but was that the actual cause of death?
Depends on how big the cups are. If they're dixie cups or thimbles, I think you'll be ok. If they're 64-ounce Super-Big-Gulps then I think you'll probably change your body chemistry from 75% water to 75% coffee. But you'd get lots of work done before you die.
Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. --Nietzsche
Surely that much water in 24 hours would fuck you up pretty bad?
LD 50 is
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127/137 mg/kg in male/female mice
230/249 mg/kg in male/female hamsters
355/247 mg/kg in male/female rats
246/244 mg/kg in male/female rabbits.
No data for humans but given a typical value
of 100 mg of caffeine per mug and comparable
metabolism you will need about 3 mugs of
coffee for every kg of body weight.
That would be about 450 mugs for yer average
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In Soviet Russian, Coffee Kills you!! Oh wait..nm thats the topic.
If you drink to much water you can die. You throw off your balance of potassium and sodium (or don't have enough of either) and your muscles can't contract/expand properly. So your heart starts going tachy and you're on the floor grabbing at your chest.
I assume you're putting sugar in there.
Let's just assume a cup of coffee is 200 calories.
That's 20,000 calories you're ingesting there. Roughly 5 pounds of fat once your body stores that as excess.
So, if you don't die from the caffiene, you're well on you way to looking like cowboyneal.
I think that amounts to about 5 gallons of liquid. Regardless of whether the caffeine kills you, I suspect drinking that much liquid in 24h may be dangerous in and of itself.
LD50 (Lethal Dose*) of caffein is 192 mg/kg in rats
* LD50 = dose which will kill 50% of the tested animals.
It is estimated that fatal doses for humans are between 1 and 4 grams of caffeine, depending on body weight and tolerance.
we'll say that each cup of coffee has 80mg of, so that 80mg * 100 cups divided by 1000mg in a gram, and that comes out of 8 grams of caffein you'd be injesting in 24 hours..while 1-4 grams could kill you if taken at once. IMHO you shouldn't even attempt to drink 100 cups...if you dont die you'll probably be very sick at the least.
my source.
Caffeine, like all alkaloids, is bug poison. Alkaloids were invented by tropical plants to discourage bugs from eating.
Alkaloids are people poison, too, of course, but a bigger dose is required.
It's surprising one can even survive to 10 cups of coffee, when most coffee is contaminated with DHMO.
For those who are not aware of the dangers of this substance, dihydrogen monoxide is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and kills uncounted thousands of people every year. Most of these deaths are caused by accidental inhalation of DHMO.
Prolonged exposure to its solid form causes severe tissue damage. Exposition to it gaseous form may cause burns, permanent scars and even death.
Symptoms of DHMO ingestion include sweating and urination, and possibly a bloated feeling, nausea, vomiting and body electrolyte imbalance.
For those who have become dependent, DHMO withdrawal means certain death.
Dihydrogen monoxide is also known as hydroxyl acid, and is the major component of acid rain. It has been found that malignant cancer cells only develop in its presence.
The American government has refused to ban the production, distribution, or use of this damaging chemical due to its "importance to the economic health of this nation.". It's commonly used as an industrial solvent and coolant, as a fire retardant, in the distribution of pesticides, in abortion clinics,and lots more.
I created a community against DHMO in Orkut. You're all invited to join it.
You can also check the official Dihydrogen Monoxide FAQ
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Its not coffee itself that kills, but the plastic cup that reacts with the coffee, and generates an acid called tri-hidro-cafeine, that is lethal.
Here is the complete story.If you consider a "cup" to be about 200ml (7oz), then chances are the water alone will poison you.
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Of course it can kill you. But it requires freezing it into an icicle first.
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When I was a teenager, I once took six caffeine pills prior to going to school. I was sent home two hours later...sweating, shaking, nautious, and basically a complete wreck. Took me a good 8 hours to recover. Sucks when you're so jittery yet tired, and can't sleep for the life of you (pun intended).
So, when you say "100 cups of coffee", is that in total, or per personality? I think the nurse may have doubled your dosage this morning if you are worrying about this anyway, maybe you should start a class action lawsuit instead - you should be good for two signatures at least!
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I wonder if it would worked if you crammed like 3 tins of penguins in your mouth all at once (without tin of course! :D) and then started to crunch!
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I'm a pot-a-day drinker too, but every so often I like to quit for a little while (I don't much like the idea that I'm physically addicted).
I drink between 1.5l and 3l of coffe per day. (10-20 cups, 8-15 mugs?) I'm in the process of substituting some of it by water (had a long, 1.5year run without slowing down). And I am physically and psicologically addicted to the stuff.
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Yes, it probably could kill you.
My recommendation:
Get a vasectomy. Anyone who would consider drinking 100 cups of coffee in 24 hours doesn't belong in the gene pool.
unless you are the kwisatz haderach...
A cup of coffee has about 150 mg of caffeine in it.
Hence, 100 cups of coffee is about 10-15 grams of pure caffeine.
The lethal dose varies.. different people react diffferently. That's why there are LD50's.. which is the value which statistically kills half the subjects. (or, you could view that as a 50%/50% chance)
The LD50 for caffeine in rats (orally) is 192 mg/(kg body mass)..
A typical male human weighs about 80 kg.. 15 grams of caffeine divided by that is 187 mg/kg.
So, yes that amount of caffine can definitely kill someone. I wouldn't take my chances.
I remeber when I got word that the Chem. dept. had a surplus a various chemicals they were looking to get rid of. I went to their webpage (which listed the chemicals and quantities and resquest the following from the surplus:
100 grams Caffine
1 pound Hydroflouric acid (non-aqueus)
some nitric acid
etc, etc
Everything was going fine until I told them to deliver the chemicals to my dorm room. It seems they didn't like that for some reason.
So I never did get my 100 grams of pure caffine. I could've had a lot of fun with that around finals.
Oh well, they probably saved my from killing myself with the hydroflouric acid. (That stuff will eat through Pyrex!)
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Considering you just posted on a high-traffic web site that you're going to drink 100 cups of coffee, if it did kill you, your death wouldn't be so mysterious.
So I say, Go for it. If you die, we'll let folks know.
27 cups has been proven to be safe...
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-Rick
...you should see this episode of Futurama. Fry gets a tax rebate from dead Nixon and resolves to drink 100 cups of coffee....
And then something happens....
...heh. I get the joke. I won't spoil it for anyone, but I think maybe we'll see some really interesting "Stuff That Matters" today...
As always, moderation. Drinking to much water can dilute essential minerals in the body and has been the cause of death.
100 cups is a large volume and concentration of chamicals in the body. There are risks involved.
I would say the risk of death is low, although not zero. The risk of illness is moderate. The risk that you wont sleep fro a week is very high.
Plan for there.
Ok maybe not when you start, but say, like, when you are, oh, like 50 cups down.
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I'd especially like to see after you've fulfilled your life's mission
I'm sure on the grossing-out scale it'd be somewhere near goat.cx
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I actually drank over 100 cups of coffee inside of a 24-hour period once (long convoluted reason omitted). I was high to the rafters, got a splitting headache, and crashed for two days after I did it, but needless to say, I survived the incident.
So, no. It won't kill you.
--pete
...you'd be pissing your life away.
Bureaucracy loves company.
That said, drinking 100 cups of coffee in a 24 hour period will cause some discomfort. When I was younger, I drank two pots of coffee in a day, and wound up going to the infirmary the next day with dehydration.
--Storm
What, is this a slow news day or something?
Come on... This is crap!
I tried this once, after watching that awesome ep of futurama. I think I got to 17 cups (one after the other) and started shaking, I felt so ill. Also didn't sleep for 2 days after. Go for it tho.
If it's any help, those circs won't be mysterious now.
but we can't let myself die under mysterious circumstances."
Support you local coroner. Die mysteriously.
- Some quotation prolly from fortune.
Fry on Futurama once gained 300 'Bad Ones' from a tax rebate and spent it on 100 cups of coffee in one day... apparently it turns you into a superhuman.
If I know anything, it's that TV never lies
With a tube connected to it...
"Where have I seen that before?" I ask myself.
"Self," I say, "that's a beer bong!" And then the image hits me, the world's largest funnel filled with 100 scalding hot (like McDonald's lawsuit hot) cups of coffee just steaming away. I'm no expert. But I think that would kill you.
I don't have any personal experience with ingesting extreme amounts of coffee (unless you consider 8 cups/day extreme) - but a game we used to play with our church youth group was to get two gallon jugs of WHOLE milk, pick two (un)lucky participants from the crowd, and give them five minutes to polish off the gallon. The first to finish wins, although alternately, the last to puke also wins. Our chugger/puker ratio was 1:1 over the history of that game.
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Slashdots question of the year, are you ready for this? No? Too bad, you'll hear me anyways. Will sucking 100 dicks (the good kind, not that crappy decap mulatto crap) in 24 hours kill a person? Sure, there is one way we can find out but we can't let myself die under mysterious circumstances."
That you'll die.
One time, about seven years ago, I won an esspresso drinking contest. Thirty shots in thirty minutes. I had two competitors. One barfed on the table, the other looked really green and had to quit. I won, not by default, in fact, after it was over, I ordered five more and spent the rest of the night trying to relax. The next day, however, I felt like someone had rolled me up into a tube of toothpaste and squeezed me out, then tried to stuff me back in. Won't do it again, purely for the morning-after effects. No, it's not 100 cups of coffee, and no I don't know the brand of espresso used.. so trying to get an accurate guess of the caffine content of my binge is impossible. But hey, I lived.. and then six years later I had a brain hemmorage. connected? I think not.
i think you should try drinking the coffee and squirting it up your ass at the same time. this way you can "ingest" the coffee at twice the rate you would if you just drank it. all those capillaries in your bowels will soak up the caffine lickity split.
maybe you can also experiment to see how many cups of Decaf you have to drink in order to kill yourself.
Quick! do it fast!
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The great French author Balzac drank over 20 cups of coffee per day and is widely reported to have died of a coffee overdose.
Dihydrogen Monoxide is two hydrogen, one oxygen. H20. You know, water?
Im pretty sure you would either throw up or simply find yourself in a position unable to complete the task (like lieing on the floor in pain).
Coat your entire body with these ;)
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It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
Well, I have done 24 4-cup pots of coffee in 48 hours. Twas an undergrad assembler project (x86 task switcher).
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This was a few years ago, but I do remember the underwear gnomes coming and stealing my boxers
I will say this -- I am sure that 100cups/ 24 hours of Dewfee (replace water with Mountain Dew) and Beerfee (yep, you guessed it) would kill you
10b||~10b -- aah, what a question!
This isn't insightful, DHMO is water, and it was reported on slashdot earlier because a kid's joke website almost made a town ban foam cups, remember?
The reference is from episode #67, "Three hundred Big Boys":
A news reel reveals that Zapp Branigan has overthrown a planet of arachnids and as a result, Earth President Nixon is rewarding the entire population of the planet a $300 "fun bill."
The rest of the episode consists of vignettes of how the Planet Express gang (and Kif) utilize their refund. Fry buys 100 cups of coffee; Leela has a unique encounter with a whale; Bender buys theft tools to steal the world's most expensive cigar; Professor Farnsworth tries an anti-aging cream and meets a woman hiding a weight problem; Amy rents an airbike, and her clumsiness results in Kif's gift (an expensive watch) falling into the whale's airhole; Dr. Zoidberg pretends to be rich and ultimately feels nothingness; and Hermes buys an out-of-control toy for his son.
After Kif is incarcerated for trying to retrieve Amy's watch, the gang goes to the Treasures of the Silk Surplus benefit, where Bender's cigar starts a fire and only the over-caffeinated Fry (moving so fast even flames appear to be still) can save all the attendees.
SIG: TAKE OFF EVERY 'CAPTAIN'!!
Tweak: Aggh! Jesus Christ man! Too much pressure! Need more coffee!
One of my friends works installing floating timber floors. Him & his business partner both love drinking coffee. They don't use sugar or milk since it takes time to put in, stir, etc. They also have to carry it around.
He tells me that between them, they finish a 150g bottle of instant coffee per day (~8 hrs). This dosen't include the cups he drinks before or after work.
100 cups? I reckon this guy could do it easy.
When I was in high-school I slept for about two hours a night, four on a good night. Mountain Dew, Barq's, and loads of coffee kept me going through weeks of AD&D, Warhammer, M:TG, and exams. One morning, before an Algebra II final that I had to pass to graduate (I have math-related learning disabilities), I chugged two liters of Dew to stay awake after three caffiene-fueled, all-night gaming sessions. During the course of the exam I chugged another two liters two keep going. I could feel my heart rate getting erratic and sweat was dripping off of me but I was able to get through the exam and rush to the loo to unload all that Dew.
I don't know if I ever hit the equivalent of 100 cups in 24/hours in those days, but I'm sure that I came close, and I know people who have definately pushed past that limit. Aside from acting very much like Tweak, nobody ever really suffered anything other than the usual withdrawl symptoms.
You can slap these all over yourself instead!
Happiness is like peeing yourself. Everybody can see it but only you can feel its warmth.
I think we've all learned from Fry that after the 100th cup time slows (or your perception of time) and you can rescue your friends.
Coffee doesn't kill, it saves!
That means the lowest lethal dose reported in the literature was 192 mg of caffine per 1 kilogram of weight of the victim. I'll let someone else look up plausible values of caffine content in coffee.
It is certainly possible to kill yourself with caffine, you just need enough of it.
I found a link for content of the beans, the values are around 1.3 %. So 100 grams of beans contains 1.3 grams of caffine, or 1300 mg.
Eating 100 g of beans is well over the limit, assuming any of my math is right :)
64 / 12 = 5 1/3 cans per 2 liter. I used to drink between two and three 2 liter diet cokes per day... It is not out of the realm of possibility that I once drank 4 two-liters which would = 5 1/3 * 4 = 21.3 cans. Thats still not close to 48 cans, though I had no ill effects from that much soda....
Eat at Joe's.
One interesting and vaugely related artical details that the performance enhancement effects of caffine can be realized by "social" consumption of the drug. Thought it was interesting.
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This is a neat April Fools joke. This is the second post in a row from this department, apparently they're accepting any and all story submissions.
Yes you will die. The most likely cause of death will be cardiogenic arrythmia. Caffeine is an arrythmogenic agent so too much will alter the normal conduction pattern in the heart, you might go into VF which is fatal. Dehydration as mentioned below is not such a major issue.
Caffeine is a drug, and all drugs have a lethal dose. According to this site, the lethal dose of caffeine "appears to be" between 5 and 10 grams. So, coffee is around 100 mg per cup, so, 100 cups = 10,000 mg = 10 grams. So that should do it. Of course, you'd have to consume these very quickly to get the full "effect".
I'm surprised no one mentioned the Futurama episode where Fry finally reached his 100th cup in a day, and went from shaking wildly and being incoherent (99th cup) to pure calm and peace.
Also, he gained super powers. The world slowed down around him, ala bullet time, and he moved kinda like the Flash.
Voltaire, one of the premier expounders on the Age of Reason, was known to drink 50 to 72 cups of coffee a day; but then Voltaire was a man of extreme appetites, particularly where the state of his health and well being was concerned (he was convinced that his recovery from smallpox during the epidemic of 1723 was due to a series of self-administered emetics and the guzzling of two hundred pints of lemonade).
From utdol.com Arrhythmias -- There is a widespread belief that caffeine, particularly at high doses, is associated with palpitations and a number of arrhythmias, including atrial fibrillation and supraventricular and ventricular ectopy [14]. However, despite the theoretical relationship between caffeine and arrhythmogenesis, there is no evidence in humans that caffeine can provoke any spontaneous arrhythmia or enhance the ability to induce an arrhythmia in the electrophysiologic laboratory [10,16-18]. Furthermore, among patients with arrhythmia, caffeine restriction has not been of benefit [19] and the administration of a modest dose of caffeine is not arrhythmogenic, even among patients with known life-threatening ventricular arrhythmia [20]. Although the relationship between caffeine and arrhythmia is uncertain, electrophysiologic studies have shown effects of caffeine that might promote arrhythmogenesis. High concentrations of caffeine can directly increase the transmembrane calcium current that is responsible for the oscillatory afterpotential (ie, triggered activity) [21,22,15]. In experimental models, even low concentrations of caffeine can increase triggered activity due to release of calcium from the sarcoplasmic reticulum [12,23]. Hemodynamic effects -- Caffeine can, in patients who are infrequently exposed, acutely raise the blood pressure (BP) by as much as 10 mmHg [24-27]. There is little or no effect of acute caffeine ingestion in habitual coffee drinkers [26,27]. Caffeine can also potentiate (by about 5 mmHg) the rise in blood pressure induced by stress, such as that occurring in the workplace [28]. The increase in vascular resistance associated with these changes also involves the cerebral and coronary circulations [7,29]. The acute effect of caffeine is more pronounced in hypertensive patients. In a study of 182 patients, caffeine raised the systolic and diastolic blood pressure in all patients [30]. However, the greatest response was observed in patients with diagnosed hypertension; compared to subjects with optimal blood pressure, those with hypertension had a >1.5 fold greater increase in blood pressure and 89 percent had a value that was in the hypertensive range, which occurred in less than 20 percent of normotensive subjects. The hypertensive effect may be more prominent in elderly patients with hypertension [31]. The effect of chronic caffeine ingestion is less clear. It does not appear to be associated with an increased incidence of hypertension due to attenuation of the pressor response [32-34]. However, there is some evidence that chronic caffeine use can cause a small elevation in blood pressure. A meta-analysis of eleven controlled clinical trials found that coffee ingestion (median dose of five cups per day) increased systolic and diastolic blood pressure by 2.4 and 1.2 mmHg, respectively [35]. Similar reductions in blood pressure may be seen when habitual coffee drinkers either abstain from coffee or switch to decaffeinated coffee [33,36,37]. The effect of coffee may not be solely explained by caffeine. In a study of 15 volunteers (six habitual and nine nonhabitual coffee drinkers), intravenous caffeine increased muscle sympathetic nerve activity and blood pressure to a similar degree in both groups [27]. Caffeinated coffee raised the blood pressure only in nonhabitual drinkers, despite similar plasma caffeine concentrations and a similar increase in muscle sympathetic nerve activity. Furthermore, nonhabitual drinkers had similar elevations in blood pressure and muscle sympathetic nerve activity with caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee. TI - Caffeine and cardiac arrhythmias. An experimental study in dogs with review of literature. AU - Mehta A; Jain AC; Mehta MC; Billie M SO - Acta Cardiol 1997;52(3):273-83 TI - Coffee, catecholamines and cardiac arrhythmia. AU - Wennmalm A; Wennmalm M SO - Clin Physiol 1989 Jun;9(3):201-6. TI - Caffeine and ventricular arrhythmias. An electrophysiological approach. AU - Chelsky LB; Cutler JE; Griffith K; Kron J; McClelland JH; McAnulty JH SO -
A guy who I used to know though school was telling me about one of his friends who was a massive coffee drinker like 4 large cups in 15 min. One day he was pounding back a few and his heart seized up from the massive amounts of caffeine he had in his system, he survived but it did involve a trip to the hospital. Of course this is just a second hand account and I can't remember all the details so feel free to take the story with a grain of salt.
As a colombian, I have to say the answer is "no", but only if it's colombian coffee. Actually, if it is colombian coffee, it is ver healthy to drink 100 cups of coffee everyday. Go get some.
"Agree with them now, it will save so much time."
100 cups of coffee gave Fry his superpowers. Someone's been watching his Adult Swim, fur shure.
Now i got the crazy idea in my head to test this out. Bad slashdot, bad.
The answer is; it's do-able.
While 20 liters of water (or any other liquid substance) will cause severe pain and will kill you when drunk at once (see torture-methods), the fact that it is spread on a time-period of 24 hours changes the picture completely.
If the body is given enough time/oportunity to get rid of a considerable amount of the liquid, then nothing will happen (exept a full blatter every hour).
So, provided it's evenly spread among the 24 hours, 100 glasses of water are consumable without any great averse affects.
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the "real-submissions-unedited dept.". As another poster stated (in the previous story), I also don't believe this is a made-story. The joke is the editors published this real life story, in any other given day wouldn't have made it. Happy April's Fool. In the Interesting side: Here in Latino-american countries, "April's" Fool is December 28th, "Day of Innocents". So, if you fall in a joke, you are a "poor innocent".
Reminds me of the story of how the Engineer's 40 Beer Contest started. Med students at the University of British Columbia told some engineers that 40 beers could not be consumed in one sitting. They were proved wrong. Once or twice a year Engineers go to a local pub to drink 40 beers in one sitting (from opening - typically 12noon, to close - typically 2am) You even get a badge if you complete it.
Well I dont like hot coffe, so at work, I have 2 biggie mcdonalds cups, I fill em and let em sit till they cool, then when one is done fill it and let it cool while I drink the other. Its not uncommon (on saturday when I am the only one drinking it) to go through 7 or 8 pots before 2pm, they are big post so, well im not sure how many cup, but it takes close to 2 pots for me to get going in the morning. I would say 100 cups would be no problem IF you are used to and have the tolerance for that much caffine.
Episode 67 I love this episode...check out the synopsis here: weeee
I had a friend with a coffee addiction problem who had worked himself up to around 8-9 _pots_ per day. He had to stop when he developed heart problems.
"Who is the Journal of Quantum Physics going to believe?" --Stephen Hawking
I know the date, but see This Link Caffine overdose is real.
Another tidbit, if you have asthma, and have a bad attack, strong coffee actually acts a a mild broncodilator, it will help your breathing. And anyone who has taken over the counter "pep pills" or "study aids" and got a feeling of flush, or heart racing, probably got a huge dose of caffine
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Almost everything is a poison in large enough doses to living things.(Water to a fish would be an exception)
Granted it would take a large amount of water or coffee to kill someone, but if taken enough it would kill you.
I saw this one on Futurama. Fry drank THREE hundred cups of coffee, and he became The One. A hundred cups is nothing.
... once you hit the 100th cup, you simply turn into an orange blur and can put out fires really fast.
100 Cups of coffee in 20 minutes makes you go in speeds faster than time itself! (The flash effect)
You can also save leela and the rest of the gang from fire in a museum.
loaded with booze.
There have been reports of people dieing from to much redbull or jolt cola.. those two drinks have been banned in some countries because of that ;]
Sure, there is one way we can find out but we can't let myself die under mysterious circumstances.
Well, since you've now told everyone your plans, your demise won't be a mystery. You may proceed with confidence."Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching." - Dogbert.
"These four days I have lived mainly on 23 cups of coffee, with bread which I still have to pay for."
- Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh (8 October 1888)
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In October of 2000 I was a Navy Hospital Corpsmen assigned to a Marine unit. (Just for those who don't know, the Marines fall under the Department of the Navy and get medical support from the Navy)
During one of the training exercises taking place at a base on the island of Hawaii, one of the Marines ( a Corporal) who was working in the chow hall drank 32 oz. of coffee concentrate (equal to about 50 cups) on a $30 bet from his Staff Sergeant.
He came into the Aid Station complaining of chest pains and vomiting blood. He kept on saying, "I can't stop shaking, Doc."
Needless to say this was considered an emergency and we called the Medical Officer. We had to keep an eye him in case his heart developed an arrhythmia due fact the enough of any stimulant, including coffee, could do that. The Marine was put under observation for the night and one of the Corpsmen went to inform the Staff Sergeant that if the Corporal died he'd be held responsible.
This Marine lived and was passed over for a promation because of this incident but, I never seen him drink coffee since.
Yes, it is possible that coffee could kill a person. Depending on the person's weight and the period of time that it took to drink the coffee. It might be funny now but at the time it was dead serious.
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I find this part amusing. "Real" coffee must be espresso. No exceptions. No dripping water through grounds, no freeze-dried instant gunk. Steam, forced through finely ground coffee under pressure (the size of the required grounds varies with temperature and humidity!).
I am currently trapped in coffee hell - finland. They are proud of the fact that they drink more coffee here per capita than anywhere else in the world - and it's all singularly crap! Not a real espresso machine in sight - complete filter madness. ugh!
Some good info here.
Anybody who watches Futurama knows that drinking 100 cups will just make you REALLY jittery.
However, drinking 300 cups will slow down time!
... I know.... after 15-20 cups in a row. The runs will begin about a half-hour later.
You may not be too suprised that in the future a cup of coffee costs $3.00. Heck now at overpriced Starbucks type places you can probably find coffee for $3.00/cup. But recently I've been noticing that the prices in Futurama actually appear somewhat lower than current prices, but that those prices were approximately the same as the prevalent prices during the timeframe when Futurama was being made..
Eat at Joe's.
Honore de Balzac did indeed die of long-term coffee poisoning at the age of 49. See his essay on the best way to get your caffeine fix HERE
It it may make him pull his shirt up over his head and start demanding TP for his bunghole.
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Disconnect your television. Do your own research. Draw your own conclusions. They're probably lying. Don't be a sheep.
Who needs to DRINK coffee anymore ?? ;)
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http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/caffederm.sht
Indeed.
A British girl Leah Betts died from Hyponatremia a few years ago. The official story, and the way it was hysterically presented in the press, was that she died from taking a single Ecstasy pill, whereas actually she basically drank so much water her brain swelled up and killed her.
Even sadder, most people still believe she was killed by Ecstacy...
Never let the facts get in the way of a good anti-drug hysteria whuppin' up. Remember the people on acid supposedly jumping out of windows in the '60s?
They will never know the simple pleasure of a monkey knife fight
Eating 100 g of beans is well over the limit, assuming any of my math is right :)
:D)
Er, not quite...
Assuming our average geek weights healthy 80kg the lethal dose would be (greater then):
80kg x 192mg/kg = 15360mg = 15.36g
Assuming that you get the whole caffeine out of the beans and into your bloodstream, you could get a critical dose of caffeine by consuming ~ 1.2 kg of raw coffee beans. (it still might not kill but at least you gonna get a hell of indegestion
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I used to work mostly in the field but was in the office on a chilly day working on some new equipment. I had learned that my coworkers, who loved coffee, hadn't had chocolate covered coffee beans. I brought in 1/4 pound. They each tried one bean.
This left me absent-mindedly munching them and pouring repeated cups of coffee. I ended up eating the whole box and drinking over a pot of coffee.
By quitting time I was quite sick and facing a commute across the SF-Oakland bay bridge. I found a box and lined it with a bag in case I threw up and endured the commute - not fun when you are extremely hyper and sick.
I got home and just wanted to curl up in bed but every time I tried I was way too jumpy and had to get up again. My heart was pounding so hard and fast that it scared me.
My recommendation: don't do it - it is really, really unpleasant.
Further reading: the caffeine material safety data sheet
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Death by coffee? Bring it on... death by chocolate didn't work.
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I've had 100 cups of coffee already, and it's only 8:45 am. Not dead yet.
Remember: if you don't get enough caffeine, your heart will stop.
Chocolate kills dogs because of the theobromine.
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Theobromine is similar to caffeine.
Check at:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/question348.ht
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will not kill you. I have done far, far worse during week-long LAN parties and such.
Once I drank a jar of instant coffee in college and I got a huge boil on my back - but I got my project done!
In the FAQ, the caffeine poisoning level is stated to be between 8 and 20 grams. (This is a large range, IMHO, but...) This is the equivalent of (worse case) 80 cans of RedBull (or similar, you know the 'energetic' soft drinks). As caffeine is an diuretic, it would be largely eliminated in the couse of 24 hours, so you can still die by taking 80-120 cans of RedBull one after another in a row and trying to avoid going to the bathroom. I don't think this is possible with coffee, tough.
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Bad news: You'd die Bad news: You'd be so aware of it happening...
First of IANAD(I Am NOT A Doctor) .01536). A cup of coffee is about .3kg so it will contain about 200mg (.3kg*670*10^-6 = 2.01*10^-4). So drinking about 75cups (15/.2 =75) will kill every second time you try :-)... of course that's drinking it all at once, which is imposible since that would be 22.5L (75*.3 =22.5), and your stomach shouldn't be able to contain it.
LD50 for rats is 192ppm when taken orally. As far as I know no studies has been done on human subjects, so this is the number I'll go with. An above average cup of coffee has about 670ppm caffeine.
Say a person weighs in at 80kg, lethal dosis will be about 15g (80kg*192*10^-6ppm =
Drinking 100cups over a period of 24hours, is probably impossible(it is NOT a dare, so don't sue if you actually do it and die!). There is the matter of blatter containing abilities. But you'll probably start womiting or go into shock way before dieing.
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And that's why i like my coffe pure black!
just the powder, and a spoon.
well, that depends on who makes the coffee... if its mcdonnalds type coffee, you'll be ok... if its something i made... you need to sign a release before drinking the first cup. :)
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that you start seeing things in bullet-time, and become capable of saving a burning warehouse full of innocents in mere moments.
As posted somewhere else, the lowest observed lethal oral doses for humans is 192 mg/kg. This is, however, roughly equivalent to 10g of coffee beans per kg.
Animals can be SO irrational, hamsters prefer alcohol over water.
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Check out this debunking page.
An excerpt (for the lazy):"Lawrence E. Armstrong, a professor of exercise and environmental physiology at the University of Connecticut, found that caffeine is not the dehydrating demon some people believe. In fact, he concluded that caffeine is no more a diuretic than water."
But I did hear an apocryphal story about the only recorded death of a caffeine overdose.
Apparently, some nurse was adjusting IV drips in a comatose patient. Saline was supposed to be up to 1500ml/hr, and caffiene at 10 ml/hr. She accidentally turned the caffiene up to 1500ml/hr. Patient died stiff as a board.
Don't ask me to back this up, I have no proof whatsoever. But its a nice story anyway.
(obligatory Futurama reference)
In fact you will achieve a kind of "hyperspeed" once you hit the 100th cup if I recall.
...make your own inferences. CLINICAL TOXICOLOGY A cup of coffee contains roughly 60 mg to 180 mg of caffeine, compared with 20 mg to 90 mg in tea. Analgesics tend to have 30 mg to 60 mg, and diet and alertness tablets have 100 mg to 200 mg of caffeine(4). The minimum lethal dose for humans is estimated at 150-200 mg/kg(5), although there is a case report of death following a dose of 57 mg/kg(2). The signs of acute caffeine toxicity may be seen following a dose of 10 mg/kg. Symptoms typically initially include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, cramps, and muscle fasciculations. Central nervous system effects are manifested as restlessness, agitation, and irritability. In severe cases, seizures may occur. Direct stimulation of the myocardium coupled with vagal stimulation may result in tachycardia, bradycardia, hypertension, or hypotension. Ventricular irritability leads to premature ventricular contractions, typically manifest as palpitations; and paroxysmal atrial tachycardia has been reported. Pulmonary edema has also been reported following severe ingestions, and animal studies have suggested pulmonary vasodilation as a mechanism. Dehydration may also result from excessive diuresis coupled with gastrointestinal losses (2,3,5). Laboratory findings in acute caffeine toxicity include hypokalemia, hypocalcemia, hyperglycemia, leukocytosis, and glucosuria as well as ketonuria. Blood caffeine concentrations peak within two hours after ingestion(3). Consumption of two cups of coffee will result in a blood caffeine level of 1-10 ug/ml. Seizures have been reported at a level of 50 ug/ml, and death has been reported with a level as low as 80 ug/ml. Caffeine metabolites will also be picked up when measuring theophylline levels (2,5). TREATMENT There is not a specific antidote for caffeine poisoning, and care is mainly supportive. Ipecac is not recommended. While previously ipecac-induced emesis was recommended (2,3,5), the risk that a patient may become obtunded and is at high risk for having a seizure precludes its usefulness (6). Activated charcoal has been shown to be useful in binding caffeine. A cathartic may also be used to enhance removal of unabsorbed drug from the gastrointestinal tract (2,3,5). Gastric lavage with saline may be useful for removing stomach contents as well as treating hemorrhagic gastritis. Antacids may also be useful in this regard (2,3). Seizures may be treated with diazepam or phenobarbital, which may also serve to counteract caffeine's effect on the central nervous system (2,3). Cardiac arrhythmias should be treated with the appropriate agent. Beta-blockers may be particularly helpful in counteracting the effects of excessive beta-adrenergic stimulation. Cardioselectivity and a short half-life make esmolol an attractive choice (2,3,5). The patient should be monitored for electrolyte imbalances, particularly hyperglycemia, hypocalcemia, and hypokalemia, although such disturbances rarely require treatment (3,5). Dietrich and Mortensen describe a one-year old patient who ingested an estimated 200-300 mg/kg of caffeine and had a blood caffeine concentration of 385 ug/ml four hours postingestion. The child developed seizures, ventricular fibrillation, electolyte disturbances, and pulmonary edema. Because of the magnitude of the ingestion and the severity of the cardiac and neurologic symptoms, this patient was treated with charcoal hemoperfusion, and survived without any apparent long-term sequelae(7). However most patients will not require such aggressive extracorporeal techniques of enhancing elimination and will do well with supportive care alone. CHRONIC EFFECTS Chronic caffeine users, typically coffee drinkers, experience a tolerance to the effects of caffeine, and may be seen to experience withdrawal in its absence. Typically this abstinence syndrome takes the form of headaches, increased sleepiness, and decreased alertness (2). The psychiatric literature describes associations of caffeine use with a syndrome of anxiety, depression, and even psychosis (1), and recently a caffeine de
Just ask any Starbucks employee.
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The Leather Funnel
My friend, Lionel Dacre, lived in the Avenue de Wagram, Paris.
His house was that small one, with the iron railings and grass
plot in front of it, on the left-hand side as you pass down from
the Arc de Triomphe. I fancy that it had been there long before
the avenue was constructed, for the grey tiles were stained with
lichens, and the walls were mildewed and discoloured with age. It
looked a small house from the street, five windows in front, if
I remember right, but it deepened into a single long chamber at
the back. It was here that Dacre had that singular library of
occult literature, and the fantastic curiosities which served as a
hobby for himself, and an amusement for his friends. A wealthy man
of refined and eccentric tastes, he had spent much of his life and
fortune in gathering together what was said to be a unique private
collection of Talmudic, cabalistic, and magical works, many of them
of great rarity and value. His tastes leaned toward the marvellous
and the monstrous, and I have heard that his experiments in the
direction of the unknown have passed all the bounds of civilization
and of decorum. To his English friends he never alluded to such
matters, and took the tone of the student and virtuoso; but a
Frenchman whose tastes were of the same nature has assured me that
the worst excesses of the black mass have been perpetrated in that
large and lofty hall, which is lined with the shelves of his books,
and the cases of his museum.
Dacre's appearance was enough to show that his deep interest in
these psychic matters was intellectual rather than spiritual.
There was no trace of asceticism upon his heavy face, but there was
much mental force in his huge, dome-like skull, which curved upward
from amongst his thinning locks, like a snowpeak above its fringe
of fir trees. His knowledge was greater than his wisdom, and his
powers were far superior to his character. The small bright eyes,
buried deeply in his fleshy face, twinkled with intelligence and an
unabated curiosity of life, but they were the eyes of a sensualist
and an egotist. Enough of the man, for he is dead now, poor devil,
dead at the very time that he had made sure that he had at last
discovered the elixir of life. It is not with his complex
character that I have to deal, but with the very strange and
inexplicable incident which had its rise in my visit to him in the
early spring of the year '82.
I had known Dacre in England, for my researches in the Assyrian
Room of the British Museum had been conducted at the time when he
was endeavouring to establish a mystic and esoteric meaning in the
Babylonian tablets, and this community of interests had brought us
together. Chance remarks had led to daily conversation, and that
to something verging upon friendship. I had promised him that on
my next visit to Paris I would call upon him. At the time when I
was able to fulfil my compact I was living in a cottage at
Fontainebleau, and as the evening trains were inconvenient, he
asked me to spend the night in his house.
"I have only that one spare couch," said he, pointing to a
broad sofa in his large salon; "I hope that you will manage to be
comfortable there."
It was a singular bedroom, with its high walls of brown
volumes, but there could be no more agreeable furniture to a
bookworm like myself, and there is no scent so pleasant to my
nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient
book. I assured him that I could desire no more charming chamber,
and no more congenial surroundings.
"If the fittings are neither convenient nor conventional, they
are at least costly," said he, looking round at his shelves. "I
have expended nearly a quarter of a million of money upon these
objects which surround you. Books, weapons, gems
Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.
Well, we all know that one can die by too much water intake, and I would assume coffee would be similar, but what about medical problems? I myself have Super-ventricular-tachicardia which causes me to get an irregular beat if my caffiene intake is too high. I would assume there are a multitude of other afflictions like that which would kill a person much quicker than by the 100cups alone.
I would assume that i have consumed about 25cups in a day before, and I have been fine..
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If you watch kids TV they talked about the dangers of Ecstacy on a Saturday morning show that had a 'doctor' expert.
He talked about how it dyhydrates you because you don't know how much water your losing and you can dance without realising how dangerously low on water you are becoming.
This was approx 2 weeks before she died.
I think she overdrank because she headed the warning and didn't want to dehydrate.
When I was working 80 - 100 hour weeks for months on end (averaging 4 hours of sleep a night), caffeine was a requirement to function. I got to the point I was drinking 4 pots a day - 40 cups. After a couple of *years* of this, my body was so dependent on caffeine that when I went on vacation and cut my coffee dosage to 2 cups a day, I literally couldn't even take a dump.
But it wasn't anywhere close to killing me, as far as I can tell, unless you count exploding in a nasty, stinking mess had I gone cold turkey from coffee.
And no, this is not an April Fools joke!
Beer has electrolytes; it won't kill you like water. If you took the same amount of water, you would not be here, I think, even spreading it in a 24h period.
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I thought 100 cups of coffee made you super fast so that the world seemed to go in slow motion, and people would think you're an orange blur!
The LD_50 of caffeine (that is the lethal dosage reported to kill 50% of the population) is estimated at 10 grams for oral administration. As it is usually the case, lethal dosage varies from individual to individual according to weight. Ingestion of 150mg/kg of caffeine seems to be the LD_50 for all people. That is, people weighting 50 kilos have an LD_50 of approx. 7.5 grams, people weighting 80 kilos have an LD_50 of about 12 grams.
In Mountain Dew the LD_50 is about 200 12 ounce cans or about 50 vivarins or strong cups of coffee (200mg each).
Acute caffeine poisoning gives early symptoms of anorexia, tremor, and restlessness. Followed by nausea, vomiting, tachycardia, and confusion. Serious intoxication may cause delirium, seizures, supraventricular and ventricular tachyarrhythmias, hypokalemia, and hyperglycemia.
Chronic high-dose caffeine intake can lead to nervousness, irritability, anxiety, tremulousness, muscle twitching, insomnia, palpitations and hyperreflexia. For blood testing, cross-reaction with theophylline assays will detect toxic amounts. (Method IA) Blood concentration of 1-10 mg/L is normal in coffee drinkers, while 80 mg/L has been associated with death.
Yes
what?
The lethal dose for an average person is around 10g, and a cup is worth about 200mg. So, about 50 cups in a row could possibly kill you. Now, I'm not sure how fast you get rid of caffeine, so it could be that drinking them in 24h would leave you behind the limit . At any rate, you would substantially raise your risk of dying of a heart attack, or at the very least of a _very_ bad day ;)
;) Now, as always, don't believe whatever you see on the web :)
I remember seeing a web site long time ago that compared coffee and marijuana, their claim was that about 70 cups of coffee could kill you, but that you needed to smoke 70000 joints in a row to take the same risk
Sounds a lot like taking heroin (which happened to me accidentally) for the first time, except it's quite pleasant.
It's a long story, but I acidentally snorted about three doses-worth of the stuff on the beach one day. It was sold to me as something else and I was too reckless to care back then. My favorite quote from that day is:
"Dude, we didn't just take K, that was something else, like crushed up Percocets or something" (percocet is a nartotic)
"Sometimes, I think Trent just needs a cup of hot chocolate and a blankie." -Tori Amos on Nine Inch Nails
Everyone knows that drinking 100 cups of coffee gives you super powers since everything seems to move in slow motion arround you. (The conclusive study will be conducted on 6/15/3003)
If you have well trained heart (regular sport excerices and like that) than better double the dose. Oppositely, if you are younger than 15 than you may not need all that amount.
My advise - don't do it. Instead run the debugger to trace what broke your life motivation. And fix it. There is always a way to fix it.
Less is more !
Here in our neighbourhood in Belgium there used to be some smartshops, small semi-legal stores where they sell all kinds of herbal extracts, non-subscription drugs, ... They once sold caffeine caps of 500 mg caffeine, which would be the equivalent of around 25 cups of coffee. Once ate one of those, did have a hell of a party afterwards, but I experienced actually no real (short-term) negative effects, except some hyperactivity, nervosity and a lot of thirst. Of course taking four of those guys I wouldn't promote...
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The next day he was found drowned in his tea-pee.
It is possible to O.D. on water. Three quarts, all at once should do the trick. Not sure of the ratios of water to caffeine, but I'd switch to something concentrated like Turkish coffee or espresso just in case. Don't want to O.D. on the wrong thing after all, that would ruin all the fun.
Voltair used to drink 75 cups of mocha a day. These weren't the mochas you get at Starbucks. They were more of an espresso infused with chocolate.
I'd imagine they were smaller than todays cup of coffee, but even so thats quite a coffee habit.
But thanks to college frat houses we've learned that 250 cups of coffee will kill you. I realize this is a joke, but it's something that has appeared in news before, at least in Texas (I think it was a kid at A&M that discovered this).
So it's hard for the joke to be funny when you know people have actually died from drinking too much coffee. (Of course, that does make a person a good candidate for a Darwin Award)
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Trying To Lose Weight ? Avoid Water, Doctors Say
BALTIMORE (AP) - Could drinking common tap water make it harder for you to shed a few pounds ?
That's the argument of a well-known obesity researcher. Contrary to what we have all believed for years, water does in fact have calorie content, says Dr. James Korsch of Johns Hopkins University. In an article to appear in this April's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Korsch and his team present new research describing how they used new techniques that show that water has calories.
"In the last five years there has been a big change in how we think about metabolism. Old ideas that we took for granted are now being put to the test with new measuring techniques, and we're finding that many of them just aren't true" Dr. Korsch said at a press conference last week. "If you think about it, there really is no reason to assume that water has zero calories. What we found was that in fact a liter of distilled water has about 40 calories."
But not all of Dr. Korsch's colleagues are buying his hypothesis. "The biggest health problem we're facing in America today is obesity," Dr. Julie Walther, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told The Associated Press last week. "Dr. Korsch has an excellent reputation, but many scientists in the obeisity research community are calling this work into question. Time will tell if he is correct, but right now we're concerned about the public getting the wrong message."
What's the main idea behind Dr. Korsch's work ? "The point is that the conventional methods for finding out how many calories a substance has just don't correspond to how the human body processes food. Typically, a method known as calorimetry is used, where the food is burned and the calories produced are measured by looking at the change in temperature. Well, unfortunately, that's just not how the human body consumes food - we don't have a furnace in our stomachs . What we have is a complex biochemical process. And not only that, but how are we going to burn water to compute its calorie content ? There are many substances which simply can't be studied in this way. Dirt is a good example. Right now we are running a study funded by the Army on the calorie content of dirt and sand. The Army is very interested in the possibility that soldiers could possibly subsist on a diet of dirt alone."
So what are the implications for todays dieters ? "If you are reaching for a bottle of spring water, think twice." says Dr. Korsch. "You're better off with a good diet soda."
It's really maybe. Here's the data: Caffeine LD50 (50/50 chance of killing you) is 150 mg/kg Half life of 5-7 hours with extremes of 3 to 20 hours common Coffee has 93 to 164 mg/5oz serving I'm a big guy, 100kg, so could stand 15g before having a better than even chance of dying. Drinking 100 cups of the hard stuff at once would be a bad idea (16.4 g) But drink a cup of the hard stuff every 14.4 minutes and it never goes over 6.4 g (assuming a 7 hour half life). Now try some small woman, say 45 kg. Her limit is 6.75 gm. Might be ok or a risk, less than 50%, of dying. But if she's on the pill, her metabolizme half life is 13 hours. She hits exceed 9.3 g. Well above LD50 so probably a gonner. Your mileage may vary. References: http://codeine.50g.com/other/caffeine.html http://www.chinamist.com/knowledge/health/caffeine /content.htm
http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/caffeine/caffeine_ effects.shtml
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Coffee is rather high in Dihydrogen Monoxide and 100 cups will surely kill you.
Well, yeah. That makes sense. They want to give a feel for how much something really costs. When Fry checks his bank account and has like $4 billion in it, that's supposed to be a lot. But assuming an average of 1% inflation, over 1000 years, that's actually only about the equivalent of $200000 or so in todays money. But the point is supposed to be that he's filthy rich.
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100kg, maybe, but 150kg in average is above what I expected!
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The LD50 of coffee is 192 mg/kg, which means for an average 200 pound male you stand a roughly 50/50 chance of dying if you ingest about 17 grams of caffeine.
I don't know the specifics of your coffee, but I'm sure yuo can look up the caffeine content per cup and go from there. Rememeber that the 192mg/kg is for a single dosage all at once, you can probably ingest way more than that over the course of 24 hours as your body processes it out, but if I were you I certainly wouldn't exceed the LD50 amount within a period of an hour or two.
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Anyone remember how Tycho Brahe died? If you've had that much coffee, make sure to drain the ole bladder.
From alt.suicide.holiday methods FAQ:
The upshot of that, I guess, is that coffee isn't likely to kill you.
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It didn't kill Fry (http://www.gotfuturama.com/Information/CharacterB ios/fry.dhtml).. so it won't kill you!
I've had a caffeine overdose once (and believe me it will be only once). It was a hellish few hours of spasms, shivers, etc. I don't believe you could drink that much coffee without being overdosed with caffeine and incapacitated long before you reached the 100 cups. Now you could probably kill yourself drinking 100 cups of decaf ;)
Trying To Lose Weight ? Avoid Water, Doctors say
BALTIMORE (AP) - Could drinking common tap water make it harder for you to shed a few pounds ?
That's the argument of a well-known obesity researcher. Contrary to what we have all believed for years, water does in fact have calorie content, says Dr. James Korsch of Johns Hopkins University. In an article to appear in this April's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Korsch and his team present new research describing how they used new techniques that show that water has calories.
"In the last five years there has been a big change in how we think about metabolism. Old ideas that we took for granted are now being put to the test with new measuring techniques, and we're finding that many of them just aren't true" Dr. Korsch said at a press conference last week. "If you think about it, there really is no reason to assume that water has zero calories. What we found was that in fact a liter of distilled water has about 40 calories."
But not all of Dr. Korsch's colleagues are buying his hypothesis. "The biggest health problem we're facing in America today is obesity," Dr. Julie Walther, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told The Associated Press last week. "Dr. Korsch has an excellent reputation, but many scientists in the obeisity research community are calling this work into question. Time will tell if he is correct, but right now we're concerned about the public getting the wrong message."
What's the main idea behind Dr. Korsch's work ? "The point is that the conventional methods for finding out how many calories a substance has just don't correspond to how the human body processes food. Typically, a method known as calorimetry is used, where the food is burned and the calories produced are measured by looking at the change in temperature. Well, unfortunately, that's just not how the human body consumes food - we don't have a furnace in our stomachs . What we have is a complex biochemical process. And not only that, but how are we going to burn water to compute its calorie content ? There are many substances which simply can't be studied in this way. Dirt is a good example. Right now we are running a study funded by the Army on the calorie content of dirt and sand. The Army is very interested in the possibility that soldiers could possibly subsist on a diet of dirt alone."
So what are the implications for todays dieters ? "If you are reaching for a bottle of spring water, think twice." says Dr. Korsch. "You're better off with a good diet soda."
NO, 100 cups of coffee according to the show Futurama (episode: three hundred big boys) will actually set you in a super hightened and mobile state where you move at super human speed and awareness. Thus you can save people.
:(
"I think we were just saved by an orange Blur!!!"
I wish they would bring that show back.
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I never used ectasy, but marujuana gives dry mouth too. Not only by smoking it, spacecake (or even a THC pill, if such a thing exists) as well.
:) to sprout (is that the correct word? I took it from the babelfish..) from your mouth abundantly.
It's stupid to keep drinking water. You're not thristy, it's just your mouth that's dry. I suspect it's the salivation system gets inhibited by the drug.
So, what you have to do is to excite the salivation system: chocolate does good. Amazingly, some dry cookies works very well, you feel the water (saliva, really
When I was working a neuro ward a number of years ago we admitted a man in his mid 50's who was suffering seizures and cardiac arrythmias. He was worked up for several days with all sorts of testing with no results. Finally, a med student thought to take a detailed history from the guy. When he asked him if he drank coffee, the response was "yes, 5 or 6 pots a day." Turned out the guy waa a cop working night shift at a desk and drank coffee constantly.
Weaned the guy off the coffee gradually and the problems went away. Guess it didn't kill him, but he was intensive care for quite a while.
in low levels too. By my rough calculation - 20 standard cups of coffeee is about 1.6 times the LD50 in mice by bodyweight of an average person.
LD50 is the dosage required to kill 50% of the subjects it's given too.
No deaths have ever been reported as direct effect of smoking too much dope. I imagine this is because it's physically impossible to continually smoke enough in succession to reach a lethal level. At some point in your quest you'll either stop caring (too lazy) or just pass out. As with coffee, at some point you will get too sick to continue ingesting enough caffeine to reach a lethal level.
NO MAN, 100 cups of coffee according to the show Futurama (episode: three hundred big boys) will actually set you in a super hightened and mobile state where you move at super human speed and awareness. Thus you can save people.
:(
"I think we were just saved by an orange Blur!!!"
Bring that show back DAMMIT!!!
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http://codeine.50g.com/other/caffeine.html estimates 150 mg/kg as the human LD50 (dose that kills 50% of those exposed). For rats, it's been experimentally determined and is 192 mg/kg.
Figure 100 kg for a Slashdotter, 150 mg/cup for a nice strong cup of coffee, then a hundred cups would have a 50-50 chance.
Anyone remember the Dilbert about the colleague who carried around an IV stand with a continuous caffeine drip?
100 cups x starbucks price = about 200, and given that its starbucks coffee, you'll probably die of bordem and the realisation of how much money you just spent, long before you got to the last cup.
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assuming that you could drink that much I would have to say maybe. Depends on your heart. Caffine is a stimulant. It speeds you heart and blood flow as well increases your blood preasure. It is totally possible to give yourself a heart attack or just even a stroke (more likely)
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I have an older, out-of-print, biography of the author Balzac that indicates coffee did him in and mentions that caffeine in a raw dose will kill you as quickly as anything on the planet.
The story goes that Balzac was a nightowl (largely to avoid creditors) and worked only when everyone was down for the evening. He was, as a result, extremely addicted to coffee. It's said he imported bean from all over and delighted in constructing his own blends. He was a fanatic revisionist of his work and is rumored that a typical day's work required 60 cups.
The prolonged stress to his heart is what is thought to have done him in but it was widely reported that he was "killed by coffee!"
There's enough caffeine in 100 cups of coffee roughly speaking to kill you, yes, but the body metabolizes it so fast that, unless you intubated yourself, no, you are not going to die from it. Odds are better that you'll shake hard enough to homogenize yourself, though.
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If you drink 100 cups of coffee in one day, you'll get "bullet time" like effects, time will seem to slow down, while you move as fast as ever, so you can easily save everyone from the fire.
I suffer from attention surplus disorder.
Caffine, just like nicotine in tobacco, is a natural insecticide. Just scale it up like this and it can kill 140 pound mammals pretty well too.
... but I'll die happy and caffeinated.
My corpse will be all that is left to cool what little of that dark nectar I'll leave behind.
Using info found on google I wrote this Haskell program:
coffee initial amount time | time == 0 = initial
| otherwise = coffee (initial * rejection_per_hour + amount) amount (time - 1)
where rejection_per_hour = 0.89
rejection_per_hour is how much caffeine does your body eliminates per hour and amount is how much caffeine do you drink per hour. Assuming 10g as the lethal amount (found in google) and a expresso having 0.6mg/ml (that is 0.6g/l) we can see that you need to drink 2 liters of expresso during at least 22 hours before dying.
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Reliable sources indicate it would actually cause a temporal perception shift, resulting in the ability to move at speeds much greater than normal.
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Read about LD50. There's a good article in the Wikipedia. Every substance has an LD50: "that dose administered which kills half the test population is referred to as the LD50, for Lethal Dose, 50%".
Also from wikipedia, in the entry for caffeine:
"The LD50 is estimated to be about 192 mg/kg of body mass, or about 72 cups of coffee for an average adult."
The article seems to indicate that this is for a single dose. In other words, drinking 72 cups of coffee all at once (or one after the other really fast) so that all the caffeine from all the cups is in your system at once. If you're drinking them over 24 hours you're metabolilizing some of the caffeine as you go along, thus decreasing the amount that's in your body at once.
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Coffee has caffeine in it, and caffeine in large enough doses would be lethal. (As already noted, _anything_ including water, can be lethal in the right doses.)
:-)
Different people will have different tolerances to chemicals, so when toxicologists talk about the dose it takes to kill someone, things get a bit theoretical.
To determine a lethal dose of a substance, look up the LD 50 (a toxicoloty term that means the dose which will be lethal to 50 percent of the species it is given to. For instance, for the same chemical, rats and humans will have different LD50 numbers.)
Another number commonly used when talking about human safety is the LDLO, which is the lowest concentration of the chemical that is known to have killed someone.
Anyway, LD 50's and LD LO's are commony available on MSDS's (Material Safety Data Sheets.)
Here is an MSDS for caffeine: http://ptcl.chem.ox.ac.uk/MSDS/CA/caffeine.html
As you can see here, the LD LO for humans is 192mg per kilogram. Considering that the average cup of coffee has (very roughly speaking) 100 mg of caffeine, this means you'd have to drink about 2 cups of coffee for each kilogram of body weight in a relatively short period of time so that your body doesn't have time to metabolize the caffeine, in order to (maybe) kill yourself.
Or, you might just die of drinking too much water which is also in the coffee, along with other chemicals that would kill you in the right doses.
It does happen. I had a close friend from college who jumped off the roof of a 4 storey building after tripping for a week.
Tolerance to acid begins to build as soon as you start to feel it. You simply cannot take enough acid to trip for a week, no matter how often you redose. By day two, the experience is already greatly diminished. And before anybody asks, yes, I speak from experience.
Now, tell me he lost his grip after tweaking on meth for a week, and I'll happily shake your hand and agree. But tripping for a week on acid? Bull.
I think that it'd instead be the fact that you drank so damn much caffeine and won't sleep for at least a few days afterwords, weakening your immune system.
And watch out, caffeine is a diuretic (it makes you pee more water out than you take in in just the caffeine), so be sure to drink plenty of water throughout the day or else you may wake up in some hospital ward with an IV drip.
Yer a bunch of april fools....Like anyone really submitted this story in any serious fashion.
Drinking 100 cups of anything will kill you. Your body will only accept so much water before you get edema (over load in water) and drown.
If it was coffee you better make time for alot of bathroom trips ; )
I used to love coffee. I drank espresso by the mug. My old landlady once asked me about it while we were watching a program on coffee addicts. After doing the maths they had just explained on the telly, I discovered I was drinking the equivalent of 56 cups/day. She asked if I had any side effects, and I thought about it and said "no... except I fall asleep in 15 minutes if I stop".
;-)
These days I drink a few small pots of tea.
Once, for a laugh, I ate two bags of chocolate covered coffee beans out of a bowl with a spoon and then went down the pub. I had a killer evening, really fast and witty (everyone thought I was on speed) followed by a night full of shivers and shakes and just wanting to stop being awake, but not being able to.
Worth doing the once
For the record, I've also tried a cup of coffee on the half hour every half hour. Took me till lunch to get really weirded out and unhappy. Finally I've tried (with instant) making a saturated solution and drinking it. Not good either.
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Check their FAQ. Long story short: caffeine CAN kill you. I don't remember the quantity. Google is your friend, and YMMV.
As of 12:15 EST, 121 people worldwide had died from overdoses of caffeine. Not bad, considering the millions who read the site every minute...
I figured out one time that the caffeine content of 2 six-packs of Jolt Cola would constitute what toxicologists call an LD-50 dose of caffeine, meaning that it would statistically be expected to kill about 50 percent of people receiving that dose. Since a can of Jolt has about twice the caffeine of a strong cup of coffee, I thus extrapolate that 24 12-oz. cups of coffee would stand a decent chance of killing you.
:-).
Of course, I don't know if that would actually work in practice, since your body would have to absorb all of the caffeine, and after the first ten cups (or five cans of Jolt) or so you'd probably have a bad case of the runs and wouldn't be absorbing very much
A recent study published in the JAMA suggests that drinking many cups of coffee may reduce adult onset diabetes. The story is here: http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/291/ 10/1213
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My freind ended up doing a sociology test to earn points for his soch class. He ended up having the department giving him one glass of this like liquide caffene (no idea what it consisted of) that was somewhere between 20-40 cups of coffee in one shot. They then observed him for like four or five hours.
When they sent him home he was like Fry from futurama. He cleaned his, his roomates, and a neighbors room. He did all his homework for all his classes for two months, and he wrote every realative he ever had. He did much more than that, but I can't remember. I remember going over after quite a few hours after he got back and just watching him bounce off the walls. ENTERTAINING!
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The LD50 (the dosage at which 50% of human beings will experience a fatal overdose of a substance) of caffiene is about 10 g for oral administration (intravenously, amounts as low as 3.2 g have caused death). A cup of coffee has about 120-170 mg of caffiene. So, 100 cups would easily put you above the LD50 (at 12-17 g), although your body attempting to purge the caffiene (via uncontrollable urination and vomiting, both of which will certainly occur at the doses mentioned) will mitigate the dosage somewhat.
It is worth noting that caffiene, like cocaine, is a dopamine reuptake inhibitor. Once you pass an amount as little as 250 mg (depending on your weight) you will begin to feel the effects of caffiene intoxication, which include a very reduced sensitivity to pain, and eventually a feeling of intense, vibrant physical energy. As dosage increases however, psychological effects such as paranoia and anxiety are common, and panic attacks are often induced (it's happened to me). Keep going, and you will manifest serious cardiovascular effects, including heart arythmia and fibrilation. A myocardial infarction (heart attack) can be induced, particularly in individuals prone to heart disease. Such cardiovascular effects are likely to cause physical incapacitation before you can drink your way to the LD50, but if you figure out a way to maintain your rate of ingestion then yes, you will very likely die.
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The correct phrase should be the fatal overdose of caffeine is estimated to be around 20g for the average single overweight male slashdotter ...
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50 GALLONS of any liquid in 24 hours is gonna kill ya.
haha, excellent.
I think that was Balzac, not Voltaire. It was a kind of sludge of turkish coffee, very thick, and the "cups" were probbably about 3-4 oz.
Still an enormous amount of caffeine, but the 70 cups probably comes down to about 30 of our cups today. Also I think the 70 cups is an exaggeration, it was more like 30-40 cups.
Still, even at the reduced levels, Balzac was one of the great caffeine addicts of all time.
At the risk of starting a firefight, for those who like to believe whatever the US ONDCP tells them, consider also what the US FDA is saying about anitdepressants:
New Warning Urged On Antidepressants
Now imagine what this message would look like if the ONDCP got hold of it: "Antidepressed teenagers are deliberately crashing their cars. Learn about the link between antidepressants and terror."
For the record, I *have* taken an antidepressant on prescription, for about two years (and stopped without any apparent ill effects, so far). I have not taken ecstacy, and probably never will. I drink less than 100 cups of coffee a day. I *have* inhaled, on a number of occasions, and perhaps worst of all, I have consumed alcohol (a prohibited drug for 13 years in the US), and would do it again. :-)
In my high-scoole years our cafeteria had a deal where the first cup costed 10 units, the next only 9 unints, then 8 and so on.
I decided to have a free cup of coffee, having to consume 10 cups to reach that goal.
I did it in 2 hours, but couldn't down the free coffee.
I can assure you that 10 cups was bad enough. I was ill for many hours with all kinds of sensations. 90 more cups would definitelly kill anyone. Provided that you can stomach them, of course!
But nature is wonderful, and I'm sure that it would be impossible to drink that much coffee, or you would pass out trying.
This experiment has already been performed by Fry on Futurama. After about 30 - 40 cups you will shake uncontrollably. You will also be highly irritable. However, as soon as you consume the 100th cup, you will develop super human speed. This can come in very handy if a fire breaks out in a crowded room and you must save evevyone.
...then your acquaintances will. Get that much caffeine in you, you're definitely gonna be at your twitchiest. And twitchy people tend to get on one's nerves. Therefore, it's best not to try this experiment while attending the local gun & knife show.
Most people do not know, but a trace amount of a toxic chemical called atractyligenin is found in the coffee you and I drink. There have been several studies attempting to link long term exposure to various types of cancer. One was even in Science. All of them have been largely ignored.
High doses in the short term have other nasty effects, however. Shutting down certain sugar cycles in your body, among other things. Deaths from atractyligenin are common in Africa, where they use plants containing the chemical for natural remedies.
A google search doesn't reveal much, but if you're interested, there is a great deal of information about atractyloside, a derivatized form of atractyligenin.
"Will drinking 100 cups of coffee (the good kind, not that crappy decaf mocalatte crap) in 24 hours kill a person?"
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Yes, it will. 6 gallons of water in 24 hours will cause water intoxication (hyponatremia). That's when the ion content of your body becomes too low for neural activity to be maintained. About half that amount has been known to cause coma (http://www.abc.net.au/dimensions/dimensions_heal
An athelete drank that much and survived probably only because he was an athelete. (http://www.wonderquest.com/water-intox.htm)
There have been at least 2 deaths caused by a person drinking too much water (http://www.urban75.com/Drugs/drugxtc1.html ; http://www.pressrepublican.com/Archive/2004/02_20
People don't need to drink near as much water as they're usually told. Common "wisdom" says to drink half a gallon a day. That's wrong. You need 1 milliliter of water for every calorie of food. That *is* two liters for a 2Kcal diet. But all the food we eat is in large part water. The USDA recommendations are quite clear on including that. Unfortunately nobody reads them.
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it takes a gram of caffein per kilogram of the subject to OD. I know this because I planned on err ehmm producing the stuff, here is the formula
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This guy from my hometown apparently tried this out a few years ago on a dare. He took most of a 90-pill bottle of caffeine pills and then keeled over in the middle of class. I couldn't find a link to the article on Darwin Awards, where it probably belongs, but you can read about it from a bunch of Google sources. I've always wondered how he took that many. I imagine him sitting down to breakfast that morning to a bowl of pills submerged in milk.
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Depending on how much you drink you'll probably have a caffiene overdose. My friends younger sister got it after drinking a lot of mt dew. It won't kill you but after spending several hours tweaking you'll end up with one hell of a headache.
I've always been told that you also can't chug a gallon of milk in an hour.
Anyone actually tried this one?
I like my coffee light and sweet, would 100 cups of coffee contain a gallon of milk?
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It depends on the size of the cup. 100 regular 8-ounce coffees wont kill you (unless you drink them so fast your body cant handle all the liquid end ends up sending some to your lungs causing you to literally drown), but you wont be feeling very good after that. However somewhere between 200 and 300 8 ounce coffees (or the equivalant caffeine content) you will fall into a coma with a possibility of death due to an overdose of caffeine. However you will be feeling quite ill after 50 cups so I doubt anyone would be going any farther than that.
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You end up dead but still awake.
I had way to much caffeine one day and my heart stopped for a period of time, I thought I was going to die which really sucks...
Another similar torture I recall was forcing someone to drink a bunch of wine. It was featured in a movie set in the middle east, like sinbad or something. Wish I could remember:
A person would be sewn inside the carcass of a bull with only their head sticking out. They were forced to eat large quantities of honey and wine. Sometimes they were fed other things to give them diarrhea. They were then left in the sun to rot. The sun would heat the carcass and the person inside. Maggots and such would then feast upon the carcass and the person inside. Hungry anyone?
Actually it was $300 spent on 100 cups of coffee.
In other news, Family Guy is going back into production due to steller DVD sales. Could Futurama be resurrected too?
Yes, I saw that episode of Futurama as well, and yes, it was an amazingly funny running gag that had an excellent punchline at the end of the episode.
Now stop trying to be cute by confusing the uninitiated masses who don't know the educational value of cartoons.
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Argh. The laws of science be a harsh mistress.
...have taco do it.
No. Futurama proved that drinking that much coffee in such a short time period accelerates your metabolism to such a high level that everything else seems to slow down and you move at super-speed.
I read it on the Internet, it must be true!
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I started Twitching after 8 cups in 30 minutes
My heart felt weird too
and People said I was talking kinda fast. i thought they were talking slow.
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I once worked at a cafe in Seattle that, of course served espresso drinks. One of the baristas decided that he was taking too much advantage of the house privilege (free drinks) and decided that he needed to stop himself.'Aversion therapy' was the approach he decided upon.
He produced and consumed somewhere in the neighborhood of twenty or thirty double shots of espresso.
Early on in the course of the process he developed an enthusiasm for climbing up on top of the counter or the refrigerator and chattering, howling and scratching like a chimpanzee. Towards the end of the experiment he turned a funny shade of pale green and complained of an upset stomach and headache.
Ultimately he had to leave work early and go home. I understand that he was up for quite a while, but when he went to sleep he slept a full 24 hours.
I never found out if the experiment was a success in terms of future 'coffee avoidance', but I suspect that it was at least partly so.
One hundred cups of coffee doesn't kill you! Doesn't anyone here watch futurama? Obviously, one hundred cups of coffee merely allows you to move so fast (once you reach exactly 100) that it is as if time is nearly stopped and you can move at a normal rate. Everyone go see the Futurama episode where president Nixon gives out a $300 tax rebate and Fry buys (and drinks) 100 cups of coffee. There's no dying involved.
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he ate a 5 lbs bag of sugar. This is not that strange of an idea from Hat. Anyway, when I told him my guess that "you would instantly get diabetes" he was scared off from doing it. Now I will never know.
Every morning when we would all fall out before morning PT, we would always get this long winded shpeel: "...Trainees are reminded to drink 1/4 to 1/2 canteens of water per hour not to exceed 12 canteens in a day..." (bla bla bla). Apparently a while before I had gotten there, a trainee drank a whole lot of water all at once, I heard a rumor that it was upwards of 20 canteens. In any case there is an actual name for it along the lines of Hyponitremeia or something like that. I can't remember exactly what happens but it has to do with having to much water and not having enough salt in your system.
1 canteen = 8 or 16 fl oz (been almost 2 years can't remember)
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there was this episode of futurama where President Nixons Head gave everyone a 300 dollar tax refund and fry used it to buy 100 cups of coffee. upon his 100th cup, a fire broke out because of a cigar) and as he finished the 100th cup, he started to move faster then the speed of light. he was moving so fast that he got everyone out of the building and extinguished the fire.... if I drank 100 cups of coffee, I think I'd go into hyper speed too
Since caffeine is a stimulant, it could probably cause cardiac problems as well. Everyone's heart beats faster on caffeine (unless you're tolerant to it), but that overdrive mode always runs the risk of causing an arrhythmia that could kill you. It's not very often, probably on par with young people who have sudden cardiac death while exercising (there's lots of medical caveats to that statement, but I'll spare you), but it's real.
I've just eaten 1/2 a small box of chocolate covered coffee beans and sucked down a fairly large cappucino. Not the question i want to be asking.
Well, whole coding on my last contract, I was going through a quart of string iced tea a day. Then the muscle under my left eye started twitching.
It now twitches intermittently during the day. Seems I overloaded the signal system and it just fires as it wants to.
And yes, a cup of tea of coffee makes it worse.
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(being a chem major had it's uses, like 250g bottles of sublimed caffeine...disco shit, pure as the driven snow...) anyway, i started literally...jiggling, the buzz was that intense. i had to pull over on the ride to campus and make my housemate drive so i could hang my head out the window and retch. by the time we got to campus, i could hardly walk - but i was trippin. yes, literally Tripping; i had this weird flanging-vision thing going where my field of view would "update" about three-four times a second, like a super-fast slideshow (prolly because my eyes couldn't stay still) with some wierd border effects and halos around lights. i was only in my first two classes for about 15 minutes total, the rest of the time i spent literally running in circles around NatSci and drinking gallons and gallons of water. I settled down after about 2.5 hours and was left with a stomach trying to eat itself and a pounding headache. Fun, that...
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LD50 is the dosage which kills 50% of a sample population. The FDA is not going to round up sample populations and administer high dosages of caffeine to humans. However, they'll do the same with rats and guinea pigs. This doesn't scale to humans very well obviously, as there are creatures that will die from any caffeine ingestion, like cats for example.
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Just to make sure, replace cream with Drain-O.
So the hint is - Grapefruit first, then the coffee will all hit you at once.
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Dr Peter Berridge, a consultant anaesthetist at the Royal Oldham Hospital who has treated Ecstasy users, said powerful stimulants such as Ecstasy triggered release of ADH, a hormone that slows the action of the kidneys, even when excess water is in the body. "Water intoxication can occur after drinking as little as three litres. Under these circumstances, it causes headache, nausea and vomiting," he said.
"Leah Betts died after just one [Ecstasy] tablet - she drank too much water whilst the drug stopped her body disposing of it. It may be she set out not to disgrace her parents. When she started to feel ill she thought: what could she do, and she started to drink water."
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There's no evidence recorded yet regarding death by caffeine, with the exception of the brilliant writer Honore' Balsac. Balsac consumed up to 60 cups of coffee per day during his frenzied writing career and did indeed die of caffeinism. Of course he drank coffee for 20 years. The coffee was a blend of French and imported, among the strongest around. One hundred cups of coffee per day will probably do you in, but not in one day.
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you could OD on eating those little chocolate covered coffee beans.
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