On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 8:04 AM, Adam M <amoraw...@magna-power.com> wrote: > On Monday, January 23, 2017 at 3:41:17 PM UTC-5, Jon Ribbens wrote: >> On 2017-01-23, alister <ali......@ntlworld.com> wrote: >> > On Tue, 24 Jan 2017 07:19:42 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> I believe that's "bad for you" in the sense that chocolate is bad for >> >> you. >> >> >> >> It isn't. >> > >> > chocolate is a poison (lethal dose for a human approx 22lb) >> >> That's a meaningless statement. *Everything* is a poison >> in sufficient quantities. > > I think you need to calibrate your sarcasm filter ;-). By the way coffee is > also dangerous - especially in 50lbs bags (when it hits you).
Or with sufficient velocity. The LD50 of lead is about 450mg/kg [1], which means that a typical 70kg human could ingest about 31 grams of lead and have a fifty-fifty chance of survival. But just a few grams of lead at the speed of sound will probably kill you. [2] ChrisA [1] http://whs.rocklinusd.org/documents/Science/Lethal_Dose_Table.pdf [2] https://xkcd.com/444/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
