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Current status: calculating how many banana peels it would take to kill a man by hydrogen cyanide alone.https://t.co/iSbXOtTeI6 https://t.co/Sjklj1HxiJ
"A hydrogen cyanide concentration of 300 mg/m3 in air will kill a human within about 10 minutes."https://t.co/K3OPmz5tb0
Looks like you get a 34% yield of peel on a ripe banana.Going by https://t.co/uvtFgDCpWEAt estimates of 1.33mg/g of peel, that means10 killograms of fresh banana would net an expected of 4.575 grams of Hydrogen cyanide, assuming no losses in extraction.
The use of hydrogen cyanide in industrial processes is extremely dangerous.Please maintain safety precautions. Do not try this at home. https://t.co/fXz7QjWpaf
Consult your local regulatory agency for safe handling instructions and acquire proper clearances and abide by all local laws.In Vermont, it is considered a weapon of mass destruction, classified as a "Chemical warfare agent"https://t.co/YmG6AFUqZe
This shit is literally bananas.Have you ever considered if you can commit a crime and violate hazard waste management guidelines by simply doing chemistry on bananas?https://t.co/RzIXNBdH1y
Ok, so I need a volume to estimate. I'm going to pick a 40ft shipping container https://t.co/1dEMIS4lkX
Don't know the inner dimensions, but this says"CBM for 40 feet container : (12000 / 1000) x (2300 / 1000) x (2300 / 1000) = 63.48 cubic meter"https://t.co/uVpghKFUb1
So assuming I didn't mess up conversions somewhere, we'd need an estimated 41.6 kilograms of banana to kill a man in 10 minutes within a standard 40ft shipping container.That's about 37,000 calories worth, or 92lbs. That's surprisingly few bananas! https://t.co/IBr9z3U0m3 https://t.co/UtvZrSbwiG
Would you like to see other investigations into peril and intrigue behind the leading illegal fruit? You might enjoy this thread exploring the strange and wonderful world of The Banana Menace:https://t.co/1HtzCSBeIc
This entire thread raises a question in my mind... what would be the deadliest way to use a banana, chemically speaking?Apparently radiation isn't really even a drop the bucket compared to just raw chemical toxicity of cyanide in the peel.https://t.co/gmnMWfQnaP
A wise person once said."you can't refuse to learn and retain credibility about anything."Am I credible?https://t.co/e6vDBp4ilq
Now the next step is to figure out estimated absorption rates in the skin and calculate how many people would be needed to make the space habitable.I'm learning some things I didn't want to know.https://t.co/9da01aA4gR https://t.co/6hBfu4WMQA
Would you be interested in a philosophical discussion about how seemingly absurd explorations into the messy physics of masturbation can lead to epiphanies in a tangential problem space?https://t.co/1YcsZeF3u0
Useful application ideas:Air purity in spaceships, bunkers, submarines, HVAC systems.Microbial interactions, Jejunum & Ileum surface area concentrations, effectiveness of lung inhalants for medical purposes.Also just generally having a mental model of safety concerns.
I decided I'm going to learn about chemotherapy induced baldness by trying to figure out how many banana *peels* it takes to gives someone a similar dose as this radon therapy retreat shown by @tomscott https://t.co/Zpjiuymw8ihttps://t.co/QyquTyaOvU
The most deadly way to kill someone with a banana is by choking.If you are an autistic child with swallowing issues, it doesn't take much of a banana to kill you. FYI.https://t.co/Xvj8sCH0ZM
Oh neat, I didn't realize that all my knowledge about particulate matter and aerosols also applies to radon safety.https://t.co/sX9uTqRB9ehttps://t.co/bMmSpCdurg https://t.co/y9ANR3hDo9
To make an accurate ant simulation, I'll need to solve two of the most complex physics problems we have: sand (particulate matter) and water (fluids).Technically, modeling ant communication flow is a form of quantum probability models under lens of information theory. Yay!
I have no idea what I'm doing. But I wanna cure baldness so I gotta learn high-energy particle physics.https://t.co/O1Du2gtLiW
Tired: tickling the tail of a sleeping dragonWired: tickling the dragon's tailInspired: licking the cloaca of a dinosaurIre'd: realizing a DOI no longer works so I can't confirm a quote by Feynman in contextHired: Fixing wikipedia's entry on demon corehttps://t.co/L6ohE1bFCR
Ok, decided that I will measure radiation in terms of demon core radiation levels.How many banana peels to kill a man thru brain cancer is a quantifiable concrete number.https://t.co/aiY3DuRcAK
"The primary route of incorporation is inhalation, which occurs in radon galleries and in radon-contaminated buildings, leading to diffusion of radon gas through the lung epithelium and deposition of the solid progeny in the lung."So is like cyanide?
Alright, so I'm just going to use these numbers and figure out how many bananas + odds for brain cancer and die 50 years like the guy who got hit by ionizing radiation.https://t.co/uKKHgwJzNO
So assuming I didn't mess up conversions somewhere, we'd need an estimated 41.6 kilograms of banana to kill a man in 10 minutes within a standard 40ft shipping container.That's about 37,000 calories worth, or 92lbs. That's surprisingly few bananas! https://t.co/IBr9z3U0m3 https://t.co/UtvZrSbwiG
For the sake of not making light of the dead, I'm mentally replacing any likeness to a real human as really just being Ozymandias from Watchmen. https://t.co/I808rmT36H
"[🍌] emit .01 millirem (0.1 microsieverts) of radiation. This is a very small amount [...] you would need to eat about 100 bananas to receive the same amount of radiation exposure [per day in the U.S.] from natural radiation in the environment." https://t.co/OYOam4hHxR
What are the chances that I'll be going on a watch list for researching ionizing radiation and brain cancer?https://t.co/xnKYebnoUKhttps://t.co/1rmMj3Qaz4 https://t.co/z1Iea1l4Ns
Found a picture of the Demon Core guy's hand and it looks like a really nasty burn. Not going to link to the Reddit post cuz its nasty, but this reply chain caught my eye. https://t.co/rO1jLAaXyv
The loss of smell from swallowing a radioactive pill is fascinating. Do we know why that happens?Also, a form of leukemia was what one of the surviving demon core guys got.The "beneficial" effect they mention is similar sounding to the Radon Therapy.
Randal Munroe explored bananas in terms of powering a house."if you incinerate whole bananas as fuel, it would only take about 10 bunches per day to keep your house running."https://t.co/ogWAvwQhhM https://t.co/LvIr1NKaVS
According to this, I should be calculating something called "Curies" and finding "absorbed dose constants" if I wanted to get an estimate of how to kill someone with bananas https://t.co/SaLp2ElQKd Looks like there is a standardized measurement method.https://t.co/ljwHwYEqqx https://t.co/PbI2guf9Iw
I didn't know MKNAOMI was a thing until just now.And here I am thinking it would be funny to collect (information on building) arsenals of deadly things derived entirely from bananas because of a meme.https://t.co/HGyXAIKCPu
The purpose I have for learning about how people die, is because it is the very nature of being a healer is to seek out ways to stop it.Knowing what kills us makes us stronger.https://t.co/G1VR7QBQ42
Probably one of the easiest ways to kill someone with bananas is to turn it into moonshine. https://t.co/aP02wPNXXZ
I wanna try some banana foster, this sounds tasty.https://t.co/CTQKb86LPw
I wonder what ABV they managed to get that to Bann Foster to. That would make a really fun hand sanitizer.https://t.co/plJQdxyg8A
Can bananas be used in place of aloe when making hand sanitizer? Illegal Gros Michel sanitizer made of 100% banana."Fully ripened bananas are emollient and highly moisturising; when applied topically they soften the skin, making it flexible and pliable"https://t.co/yNVq3sujE5"
Found the study associated with radioactive rebar idea."did not suffer a higher incidence of cancer mortality, as the LNT theory would predict. On the contrary, the incidence of cancer deaths in this population was greatly reduced" https://t.co/YkorVieJgPhttps://t.co/IL8xo7pqQO
Turns out I managed become immune to radiation by eating dog feces to tweak my gut ecosystem. At least if I was a mouse.https://t.co/yQa4rZfdjM
