On Tue, 24 Jan 2017 08:11:02 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > 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]
if you were to take the statistics of WWI or WWII (And probably any other major war & compare the number of rounds fired to the number of people killed by gunshot then you could say it probably wouldn't ;-) (No I am not willing to put this to the test) > > ChrisA > > [1] http://whs.rocklinusd.org/documents/Science/Lethal_Dose_Table.pdf > [2] https://xkcd.com/444/ -- Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief. -- William Faulkner -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list