When I was younger, myself and a friend of mine had an improptu drinking session with ice-cooled water; I think between us we managed to polish off about 6 litres over an hour. All well and good you would think, except for the quite serious side-effect we hadn't considered, that we spent the next four hours in intense shivering.
Obviously with hindsight, cooling down your internal organs is a bad thing, but hey we were only about 11 and these things are fun right?
In small doses, nicotine may not kill but it does elicit autonomic and somatic responses; Dizziness, nausea, and/or vomiting are commonly experienced by non-smokers after low doses of nicotine, however it is toxic in greater doses.
There are documented cases where people have died from the ingestion of nicotine (generally in the form of nicotine pesticides). In adults, the lethal dose has been quoted as 40-60mg (although not well documented).
However with those facts aside, nicotine is of course not the only toxic chemical inhaled from cigarettes, so whether the cigarettes contain nicotine or not is moot. (yes, yes... I am aware the parent post is tongue-in-cheek, but have decided to answer to it anyway).
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The Coffee and Lipoprotein Metabolism (CALM) study included 187 people, randomized to three groups: one that drank three to six cups of caffeinated coffee a day; another that drank three to six cups of decaffeinated coffee a day; and a third, the control group, that drank no coffee.
IMHO, I don't think this is a large enough set to draw accurate data from, as an initial study, these results should lead to further tests - but it seems to me, too early to apply wide sweeping statements - hey, but this is what the press is good at - right?
Wasn't there a study a few years ago that proved oxygen was bad for us? increased radicals causing cellular breakdown and ageing... As a New Years resolution, try giving that up!!
I also am not an astronomer, so this may be a dumb question, but how do you get an axis tilt of 177.36 degrees? Surely this is a tilt of 12.64 degrees.
So do you use the magnetic poles as the reference; but in that case, when Earth switchs it's magnetic field, will all these axis tilts then be incorrect, or what if the other planets also have magnetic fields which switch?
The other alternative I see is on direction of rotation, but if that is the case, Venus also has an equator near the elliptic - just spinning in the opposite direction to us.
Not only cats and dogs, spiders have also been recipients of drugs.
While not quite indicative of the munchies, the effects of the various drugs are fairly easy to see.
Check out Spiders on drugs
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Obviously with hindsight, cooling down your internal organs is a bad thing, but hey we were only about 11 and these things are fun right?
There are documented cases where people have died from the ingestion of nicotine (generally in the form of nicotine pesticides). In adults, the lethal dose has been quoted as 40-60mg (although not well documented).
However with those facts aside, nicotine is of course not the only toxic chemical inhaled from cigarettes, so whether the cigarettes contain nicotine or not is moot. (yes, yes... I am aware the parent post is tongue-in-cheek, but have decided to answer to it anyway).
FTA:
The Coffee and Lipoprotein Metabolism (CALM) study included 187 people, randomized to three groups: one that drank three to six cups of caffeinated coffee a day; another that drank three to six cups of decaffeinated coffee a day; and a third, the control group, that drank no coffee.
IMHO, I don't think this is a large enough set to draw accurate data from, as an initial study, these results should lead to further tests - but it seems to me, too early to apply wide sweeping statements - hey, but this is what the press is good at - right?
Wasn't there a study a few years ago that proved oxygen was bad for us? increased radicals causing cellular breakdown and ageing... As a New Years resolution, try giving that up!!
I also am not an astronomer, so this may be a dumb question, but how do you get an axis tilt of 177.36 degrees? Surely this is a tilt of 12.64 degrees. So do you use the magnetic poles as the reference; but in that case, when Earth switchs it's magnetic field, will all these axis tilts then be incorrect, or what if the other planets also have magnetic fields which switch?
The other alternative I see is on direction of rotation, but if that is the case, Venus also has an equator near the elliptic - just spinning in the opposite direction to us.
Not only cats and dogs, spiders have also been recipients of drugs. While not quite indicative of the munchies, the effects of the various drugs are fairly easy to see. Check out Spiders on drugs
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