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Original quote was from Terry Pratchett's Discworld. The book was Jingo and the character who said it was an Ankh-Morporkian fisherman Solid Jackson, I believe.
I think I crunched some numbers once and found that it would take something like less than a gram of antimatter to fuel you for the rest of your life, assuming you could metabolize it.
we have evolved to eat coocked food,so not a lot.you remember that little offshoot in our guts? that used to lead to an organ to digest plant matter,but that's gone now,so we can't eat grass anymore.
I don't think there is really something weird. Your body needs specific enzymes to break organic stuff down. And we mostly have that for some specific carbs, fats and proteins. We also get energy from alcohol because our liver 'rebuilds' it to fat if I understood that correctly.
But yeah that's about it sadly
And to your second question: when it comes to carbs and fat there's not a lot of energy loss, we convert most of it. (Not including fiber, which is just carbs that we can't really convert into energy and also part of our food). Proteins are less efficient since they have nitrogen in them that our body needs to get rid of actively, so we can't use a significant amount of the energy they theoretically have (I think it's about 20-30% less but I'm not entirely sure)
Alcohol doesn't get converted to fat (directly) its broken down to acetic acid (vinegar) which is part of the cycle that converts sugar to CO2 so the alcohol just hops in line and ends up as CO2.
Lots of diets will consider alcohol a carb because of this. If you are already pretty full up on carbs you will eventually make them into fats for long term storage though, so the alcohol can end up as fat.
1 G of antimatter annihilated with 1G of matter would produce around 9 x 10^13 joules of energy.
That's around 2.15105163 × 1013 calories. The average male needs 2,000,000 calories/day (a dietary Calorie is 1000 scientific calories) so that gram of antimatter can supply enough calories to keep a person alive for 29,000 years.
That same gram of antimatter can produce around 25 million kwh of electricity so at 10000kwh/year, it could power a house for 2500 years.
The most interesting thing in these numbers is that a person uses around as much energy in calories as a home uses in kwh. I mistyped a number, I originally calculated that it could power a house for 25000 years, but it's really just 2500 years.
Yeah why cant the body metabolize radiation. Stupid nature design id say humpfff.
Nvm i did some research and radiation is a no go but metabolizing gasoline is theoretically possible with absurd amounts of genetic and bio mechanical engineering. Think silicone membrane cell walls but the most viable option is some kind of external digestion tank filled with the required tech or bacteria that can actually digest gasoline and turn it into something your modified body could use for raw energy. Far future sci fi shit. We wont have oil or gasoline by then.
I knew this was bunk immediately, not because I'm super smart but because I know that fat and gasoline have pretty similar energy density and there's no way a gallon of fat would keep you alive that long.
That’s not super surprising. Gasoline is hydrocarbons of moderate length. Fat is three rather long hydrocarbons (almost) attached together. Most of the energy comes from the C-H bonds, so if you squint a little both have the same amount of those.
A gallon of gasoline will probably keep you alive for your re rest of your life. Which should be about 1 hour max, after consuming a gallon of gas. Just saying.
Because it's Calories (big c), but most people don't realize that the capitalization matters (which Wikipedia also mentions): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie
Was drilled into me as a child, and now I can't unsee it
But it's really incredible when you consider 2000kcal is equal to 2.3kWh... basically we run on what would be a 20A circuit powering a motor for about an hour.
More wild is that human Calorie intake is equivalent to a 120V appliance with an average current consumption of just 0.8 Amps. Call that ~1 amp. That’s like an incandescent light bulb. Or a laptop.
It is confusing calories with Kilocalories, which are what is used in food. 31,000,000 becomes 31,000, which is a lot of calories, but is only about 10-15 days of calories.
Gasoline is about as energy dense as a culinary cooking oil, which makes sense, since it is the same basic chemical reaction (oxidation of carbon-carbon and carbon-hydrogen bonds).
It also matches what we know from common sense: a gallon of gasoline makes about as much energy as burning a similar amount of wood* (within an order of magnitude), and a horse can create about as much work from eating a gallon of grain as a car can do from a gallon of gas* (within an order of magnitude).
*Wood is primarily carbohydrate, so the fuel is "half-burnt" already. So along with the slower times to burn, it also has less energy, along with having some water and mineral content. But it is still close enough. Also, obviously a horse doesn't move as fast as a car, but it is still probably around a third to a quarter as fast as a car.
(Or maybe an alternate behind the scenes photo. The act of drinking from a gas station pump is featured about a minute in but I didn’t see this exact frame.)
Conversion is wrong in the meme, divide by 1000 to convert kcal to cal. Either way, the body can't metabolize gasoline. I'd imagine the kidneys would be first to go followed by the liver along with some absolutely wild abdominal pain. This would not be a pleasant way to go.
The "bomb" in bomb calorimeter refers to the actual device- the chamber you put it into. You put your sample in, seal it up, and when you burn the sample it converts to gas. That's exactly how a bomb functions- a strong shell of metal that you put something inside of that burns and converts to gas- raising the pressure inside the metal shell. If the shell fails... well... it can suddenly throw shards of the shell in every direction.
How much potential energy that an item contains. They burn it a bomb calorimeter. That’s how they the number. How much energy did the thing release when it burned
The rock theoretically contains calories but much like gasoline your body wouldnt actually be able to process any of it and there would be a lot of health issues that would arise from trying it.
Unless you’re using fluorine in your metabolic processes, you probably cannot get any chemical energy out of most rocks. Maybe you could get some amount of energy via nuclear fusion, but that’s strictly on the basis of being lighter than iron, not because I think there is actually a viable pathway for such a reaction.
Calories just refers to energy like Joules. Every object has energy in one form or another. It can be chemical energy, thermal energy, or anything else. The human body cannot utilize energy from a rock because it is not in a form that our bodies are equipped to process. Food calories are on the other hand. Certain chemosynthetic species can actually use energy from specific types of rock though!
Yes but the calories you see on labels is how much you can metabolize, not how much total energy those compounds contain. A pound of salt wouldnt net any calories on a nutrition label despite having megatons worth of energy contained in its bonds.
Calories is just a unit of energy. Yes fuel contains energy (makes car go vroom). It’s still poison to us and will kill you. Not human fuel. Car fuel. But yes, it will “fuel” you to the end of your life…
The problem is to get that energy from the gasoline you have to peel those hydrogens. You could get all of the other constituents to metabolize into ATP, but the energy input would be way too high, it would be net negative. Glucose (C6H12O6) is way closer.
Olive oil is just fancy biodiesel. Drink that instead if you want to have the most calories per ml. Or peanut butter if you don't want to shit yourself.
The energy density of hydrocarbons doesn’t vary that much. Differences in fuels used by different applications is mostly just about under what conditions they combust most efficiently. It’s all the same kind of bonds more or less.
That is true. If you chug a gallon of gasoline, you won't have to worry about food for the remainder of your life. The drawback is that life is going to be very short.
What I always find fascinating about gasoline is the wattage of pumps. They pump around 50 liters per minute and each liter of gasoline contains 33 MJ per liter, so a pump is putting out 28 MW of power, or about 3% of an average natural gas power plant in the United States, and enough power to power roughly 28,000 homes (at around 899 kWh/month). All through one tiny little hose. That’s the reason ICE vehicles are so much faster to refuel than EV’s.
You are off by a factor of a 1000. 33MJ of fuel,assuming 30% electrical conversion efficency for a boiler with 1 watt hour equal to 3600 joules, would run a 2.8 kW output. 33MJ x 0.3 x (1÷3.6)
calories aren't the only thing humans need to survive, things like proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals are also necessary for survival but are not present in gasoline for obvious reasons
I play this game called dayZ-- it's basically a zombie apocalypse simulator to put it simply
Anyway you can drink gasoline in the game and it does have calories but it makes you sick and vomit so you end up losing calories
But there was a period of time where if you stood in deep enough water the vomit animation couldn't play so you could just chug gasoline to max hydration and hunger and then just idle for a bit until you get over the poisoning
According to the internet a gallon of gasoline is 125,000 BTU of energy or 31520 kcals. Assuming he’s a young adult male let’s assume he requires 2500 kcals a day, a gallon of gasoline is almost 13 days worth of energy needs
No - it's off by about a factor of 1000, because one US "food calorie" is actually 1000 energy calories. In most places outside the US, it's actually labeled as "kcal". Humans need 1500-2500 kcal per day, so a gallon of gas would give you about a week's worth of energy, not 50 years.
A human will almost certainly begin violently vomiting before they get the whole gallon down. Volitized gasoline from body heat and mixing with stomach acid will create gasoline vapor in the esophagus and mouth. Once this is inhaled, it will stick around in the lungs and oxidize any O2 before the body can get any oxygen into the blood.
Hypoxia begins to set in within minutes. Death is highly probable within an hour. Maybe a little longer.
If they survive the initial shock and vomit nearly all gasoline from their stomach to avoid poisoning, the lung injury will lead to chemical pneumonitis. They are likely dead within a day or two.
From there, survivors will likely die of any number of system failures as a result of the lung and GI injury within a week.
So, doing the math:
1 human • 1gal gasoline = T-minus 7days (a conservative figure)
1 gallon of gas is ~12days of calories
12days > 7days
This meme is verified as "mostly true." The meme confuses calories (little 'c') with Calories (big 'C') which is three orders of magnitude greater. What the meme gets right is that any Calories the body could have used for energy if metabolized, would certainly nourish the body until it's last, albeit abbreviated, breath.
i imagine the last sentence is accurate.
Build a man a fire, warm him for a day. Set a man on fire, warm him for the rest of his life.
Also accurate
A human being can eat anything at least once.
This is false. A human cannot eat an entire planet for example.
Have you tried?
Just did. Can confirm, not possible (in one bite at least, but I don’t feel like dedicating my life to it)
I'll give you a dollar if you do it.
$1 and 20 cents and I'll do it.
Rocky theme grows in the background
Not with that attitude, slacker.
Everything is edible at least once
Skyrim's alchemy taught us that too.
Right? It’s wild how darkly funny that saying gets when you think abot it.
Almost sounds like a Mitch Hedberg joke or one Don Rickles would have made
Or like something an author like Terry Pratchett would write.
GNU
RECURSION!!!
Talk about a fiery way to fuel your day! But let’s stick to food, yeah.
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I’m glad I’m not the only one who says this.
"Tao of Pratchett... I live by it" - Harry Dresden
Original quote was from Terry Pratchett's Discworld. The book was Jingo and the character who said it was an Ankh-Morporkian fisherman Solid Jackson, I believe.
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Last night I swallowed liquor and a lighter.
This morning I threw up fire.
A lethal dose is just another way to say "lifetime supply".
Right!?
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It seems you may have missed the rest of the image
A technically correct moment indeed
The very best kind of correct.
Only one way to find out
Technically correct. The Best Kind of correct
It’s gonna be a short life, but they’re not wrong
He'd yack it back up.
And be burping petrol for days min.
Source: got a mouthful was I was syphoning fuel once.
A mouthful is very different from chugging a gallon.
I think I crunched some numbers once and found that it would take something like less than a gram of antimatter to fuel you for the rest of your life, assuming you could metabolize it.
this is essentially equivalent to the gasoline thing (they consider the potential energy of a substance, not about it being metabolizable)
I wonder what the weirdest thing we can metabolize is. Heck what % of our food is successfully converted to some form of energy?
we have evolved to eat coocked food,so not a lot.you remember that little offshoot in our guts? that used to lead to an organ to digest plant matter,but that's gone now,so we can't eat grass anymore.
Explain how I can eat ass then.
is made of meat.
we eat meat
But I was always told your ass is grass…?
I love the scholarly debates I can find on the internet.
This sustains you emotionally and psychologically, not metabolically
Ah, so that was the cure for depression
I don't think there is really something weird. Your body needs specific enzymes to break organic stuff down. And we mostly have that for some specific carbs, fats and proteins. We also get energy from alcohol because our liver 'rebuilds' it to fat if I understood that correctly. But yeah that's about it sadly And to your second question: when it comes to carbs and fat there's not a lot of energy loss, we convert most of it. (Not including fiber, which is just carbs that we can't really convert into energy and also part of our food). Proteins are less efficient since they have nitrogen in them that our body needs to get rid of actively, so we can't use a significant amount of the energy they theoretically have (I think it's about 20-30% less but I'm not entirely sure)
Alcohol doesn't get converted to fat (directly) its broken down to acetic acid (vinegar) which is part of the cycle that converts sugar to CO2 so the alcohol just hops in line and ends up as CO2.
Lots of diets will consider alcohol a carb because of this. If you are already pretty full up on carbs you will eventually make them into fats for long term storage though, so the alcohol can end up as fat.
About 90-ish % in a regular, varied diet, afaik.
That is already accounted for in calorie labels btw.
When you think about it, it's really fucking weird that we can metabolize alcohol
Ethanol
Way less than a gram.
1 G of antimatter annihilated with 1G of matter would produce around 9 x 10^13 joules of energy.
That's around 2.15105163 × 1013 calories. The average male needs 2,000,000 calories/day (a dietary Calorie is 1000 scientific calories) so that gram of antimatter can supply enough calories to keep a person alive for 29,000 years.
That same gram of antimatter can produce around 25 million kwh of electricity so at 10000kwh/year, it could power a house for 2500 years.
The most interesting thing in these numbers is that a person uses around as much energy in calories as a home uses in kwh.I mistyped a number, I originally calculated that it could power a house for 25000 years, but it's really just 2500 years.[deleted]
One gram of uranium 234 has 20 billion calories.
Surprised I had to scroll this far for someone to bring up the nuclear comparison
Yeah why cant the body metabolize radiation. Stupid nature design id say humpfff.
Nvm i did some research and radiation is a no go but metabolizing gasoline is theoretically possible with absurd amounts of genetic and bio mechanical engineering. Think silicone membrane cell walls but the most viable option is some kind of external digestion tank filled with the required tech or bacteria that can actually digest gasoline and turn it into something your modified body could use for raw energy. Far future sci fi shit. We wont have oil or gasoline by then.
If you wanna bulk up you gotta source
I mean, technically, you wouldn't even meed to matabolize it.
you drink a gallon a gasoline bro, i promise you will transcend beyond the need the metabolize anything.
The gas will metabolize you.
NGL I knew someone that just huffed gas. Tried to stab their dad. Results will vary
Everything but "therefore" is presumably accurate
Calories for food are kCalories as I recall, so at least an order of 1000 off
I knew this was bunk immediately, not because I'm super smart but because I know that fat and gasoline have pretty similar energy density and there's no way a gallon of fat would keep you alive that long.
At first I thiught this HAD to be BS, but I looked it up and yeah Gasoline in 11.3 kcal/gram and fats are typically considered avg of 9 kcal/gram.
Fat has a density of ~.9g/cm3
1,000 cm3(ml) = 1 L
4L = ~1 Gallon
Okay we have all the things we need to calculate the kcal of 1 gallon of fat.
4000ml * .9g/ml = 3600g of fat
3600g * 9 kcal/gram = ~32,400 kcal
So 16.2 days.
Same math for gas is ~33,900
That’s not super surprising. Gasoline is hydrocarbons of moderate length. Fat is three rather long hydrocarbons (almost) attached together. Most of the energy comes from the C-H bonds, so if you squint a little both have the same amount of those.
And cooking oil can be used as diesel fuel.
Both are hydrocarbons, there's a reason why biofuels are a thing
You'd just chug olive oil to become super charged.
I was getting a little nauseous picturing of a gallon of lard, but a gallon of olive oil sounds a little better
Oil would just start leaking out your ass.... I've had this happen a few times
LA Beast Here:
Idiot Consumes 24,000 Calories of Fat in 3min
A gallon of gasoline will probably keep you alive for your re rest of your life. Which should be about 1 hour max, after consuming a gallon of gas. Just saying.
what if you spread it out though? sure chugging it all in an hour will kill you, but what about slowly over 2 hours?
Damn, I’m not docktor Jim, but…. I stilll think that would be enough calories for the rest of your life.
That's indeed a mistake too many people are making but the way we all say calories is confusing.
So the real answer is between 12 to 20 days "only"
So I just have to drink 1000 gallons of gasoline instead?
Because it's Calories (big c), but most people don't realize that the capitalization matters (which Wikipedia also mentions): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie
Was drilled into me as a child, and now I can't unsee it
Just replace gasoline with vegetable oil and it sounds about right, doesn't it.
But it's really incredible when you consider 2000kcal is equal to 2.3kWh... basically we run on what would be a 20A circuit powering a motor for about an hour.
More wild is that human Calorie intake is equivalent to a 120V appliance with an average current consumption of just 0.8 Amps. Call that ~1 amp. That’s like an incandescent light bulb. Or a laptop.
A typical electric car can drive about 4 miles per KWh, so the daily diet could drive 9 miles
Yeah it's got like 10x more calories than soda
It is confusing calories with Kilocalories, which are what is used in food. 31,000,000 becomes 31,000, which is a lot of calories, but is only about 10-15 days of calories.
Gasoline is about as energy dense as a culinary cooking oil, which makes sense, since it is the same basic chemical reaction (oxidation of carbon-carbon and carbon-hydrogen bonds).
It also matches what we know from common sense: a gallon of gasoline makes about as much energy as burning a similar amount of wood* (within an order of magnitude), and a horse can create about as much work from eating a gallon of grain as a car can do from a gallon of gas* (within an order of magnitude).
*Wood is primarily carbohydrate, so the fuel is "half-burnt" already. So along with the slower times to burn, it also has less energy, along with having some water and mineral content. But it is still close enough. Also, obviously a horse doesn't move as fast as a car, but it is still probably around a third to a quarter as fast as a car.
Just eat a gram of Plutonium i think that will have more power :-)
While that is all true, drinking a gallon of gas could still make it so that you don't have to eat for the rest of your life.
Party on, Andrew W.K.
Is that Andrew W.K.? He's gonna need more fuel than that for partying.
Yes, from the music video for “It’s Time to Party.”
https://youtu.be/xemLz_fR1Ac?si=3q_z6Qvx6drJxAO-
(Or maybe an alternate behind the scenes photo. The act of drinking from a gas station pump is featured about a minute in but I didn’t see this exact frame.)
One of my all time favorite music videos
I was wondering the same thing. Looks like him.
I have been watching a YouTube video about how he’s not a real guy. Wild stuff.
A lifetime supply and a lethal dose are the same amount.
Conversion is wrong in the meme, divide by 1000 to convert kcal to cal. Either way, the body can't metabolize gasoline. I'd imagine the kidneys would be first to go followed by the liver along with some absolutely wild abdominal pain. This would not be a pleasant way to go.
Math is off by factor of 1000. It’s around 31000 calories
Which pixel is the meme?
Wait so does everything technically have calories tied to it? For example if I eat a rock, would I be consuming any calories from that?
Yup. Calories is a measure of energy when you blow it up.
Why when you blow it up lol
Not really 'blow it up' but traditionally it was measured in a "bomb calorimeter" where you'd seal it in a container and burn it to measure the energy
The "bomb" in bomb calorimeter refers to the actual device- the chamber you put it into. You put your sample in, seal it up, and when you burn the sample it converts to gas. That's exactly how a bomb functions- a strong shell of metal that you put something inside of that burns and converts to gas- raising the pressure inside the metal shell. If the shell fails... well... it can suddenly throw shards of the shell in every direction.
Because you measure how much it can be used as fuel
How much potential energy that an item contains. They burn it a bomb calorimeter. That’s how they the number. How much energy did the thing release when it burned
Pet Rock...Rock Candy...Pop Rocks!
The rock theoretically contains calories but much like gasoline your body wouldnt actually be able to process any of it and there would be a lot of health issues that would arise from trying it.
Yeah I figured just because something has calories wouldn't mean we can actually absorb it or something. Let alone survive lol
Unless you’re using fluorine in your metabolic processes, you probably cannot get any chemical energy out of most rocks. Maybe you could get some amount of energy via nuclear fusion, but that’s strictly on the basis of being lighter than iron, not because I think there is actually a viable pathway for such a reaction.
Calories just refers to energy like Joules. Every object has energy in one form or another. It can be chemical energy, thermal energy, or anything else. The human body cannot utilize energy from a rock because it is not in a form that our bodies are equipped to process. Food calories are on the other hand. Certain chemosynthetic species can actually use energy from specific types of rock though!
Yes but the calories you see on labels is how much you can metabolize, not how much total energy those compounds contain. A pound of salt wouldnt net any calories on a nutrition label despite having megatons worth of energy contained in its bonds.
You don't have to be an Einstein to know that mass and energy are the same thing. (But it helps)
That’s dumb
Calories is just a unit of energy. Yes fuel contains energy (makes car go vroom). It’s still poison to us and will kill you. Not human fuel. Car fuel. But yes, it will “fuel” you to the end of your life…
Quick check list a gallon of gasoline as having about 31k kcal, and a human needs about 2k kcal. So about 15 days, if you could metabolize it
is that Andrew WK?
Don't gaslight the guy!
1 pound of uranium-235 has 8.9 billion calories
Technically true
Could these calories help create ATP? That's the real question
ATP - C10H16N5O13P3
Gasoline- C8H18
The problem is to get that energy from the gasoline you have to peel those hydrogens. You could get all of the other constituents to metabolize into ATP, but the energy input would be way too high, it would be net negative. Glucose (C6H12O6) is way closer.
Devil's advocate... Heat would lower the energy needed to peel the hydrogens off... So if we just heat the benzine enough...
There is a very high probability that drinking a gallon of gas would result in you not needing to eat again.
Not gonna eat for the next 30-45 minutes till death. Good plan!
If you chug a gallon of gasoline you indeed will not need to eat for the rest of your life.
Olive oil is just fancy biodiesel. Drink that instead if you want to have the most calories per ml. Or peanut butter if you don't want to shit yourself.
Did he have a nice after meal cigarette?
“Won’t need to eat for the rest of my life.” You mean all five minutes of it?!
So technically if you could stomach it then a shot glass should sustain you for a day, right?
Your body can't metabolize gas into energy so the real number is 0 calories
This is a crazy repost chain, look how pixelated it is. I remember seeing this when I was in middle school
The energy density of hydrocarbons doesn’t vary that much. Differences in fuels used by different applications is mostly just about under what conditions they combust most efficiently. It’s all the same kind of bonds more or less.
I mean, he’s right. He won’t need to eat for the rest of his life. But it’s definitely not gonna be 50 years. Or any years, really.
Axel from the season 2 Twisted Medal series on Peacock.
That is true. If you chug a gallon of gasoline, you won't have to worry about food for the remainder of your life. The drawback is that life is going to be very short.
[I believe that is the point of the joke.]
When did this sub become r/okbuddyretard
I think the last sentence is true even if he had way less than a gallon
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Technically he is correct...
People are talking about kcalories and allat but like. What about nutrition? Are you going to be drinking enough vitamin A with that gasoline?
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...welp...they aren't wrong...
He’s technically correct.
He’s not wrong
I suspect he's not wrong about that last part, regardless of the math
That's a lot of stored energy! Perhaps we can put the brightest minds on it and figure out how to use gasoline as a fuel source...
I mean, they're right
The statement is factual but not in the sense one would expect
The math is right, the conclusion is right, the two are unrelated
It’s a rock fact.
So in this instance, how much do i need to portion of to drink each day? Like a drop?
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What I always find fascinating about gasoline is the wattage of pumps. They pump around 50 liters per minute and each liter of gasoline contains 33 MJ per liter, so a pump is putting out 28 MW of power, or about 3% of an average natural gas power plant in the United States, and enough power to power roughly 28,000 homes (at around 899 kWh/month). All through one tiny little hose. That’s the reason ICE vehicles are so much faster to refuel than EV’s.
You are off by a factor of a 1000. 33MJ of fuel,assuming 30% electrical conversion efficency for a boiler with 1 watt hour equal to 3600 joules, would run a 2.8 kW output. 33MJ x 0.3 x (1÷3.6)
I mean if we’re talking in terms of P->Q, as long as Q is true then the rest of the statement really doesn’t matter
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Who can hold 20L if gasoline in their mouth?
Jerry can
calories aren't the only thing humans need to survive, things like proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals are also necessary for survival but are not present in gasoline for obvious reasons
TikTok bros when they discover that calories are a metric of how much heat is produced when something is burned:
That's Andrew WK.
No need for math, just party.
Technically true.
If a calorie fell in the woods and nobody saw it did it make a sound?
The caloric content of gasoline is comically overstated for the joke here.
I hate that I now know this, simply because I didn’t believe it. I’m probably on a new list, damnit.
Life hacks
one gram of uranium has tens of millions of calories
hear me out
I play this game called dayZ-- it's basically a zombie apocalypse simulator to put it simply
Anyway you can drink gasoline in the game and it does have calories but it makes you sick and vomit so you end up losing calories
But there was a period of time where if you stood in deep enough water the vomit animation couldn't play so you could just chug gasoline to max hydration and hunger and then just idle for a bit until you get over the poisoning
you’d have to mix in some daily vitamins for this diet to work
It’s crazy that you can’t find this on YouTube or something - this is from Paul Scheer himself lol
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2719739404821367&vanity=thepaulscheer&http_ref=eyJ0cyI6MTc2NTY4ODkxNDAwMCwiciI6Imh0dHBzOlwvXC93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbVwvIn0%3D
Daddy needs his juice
That guys last meal is gas.
You’d be dead before finishing the gallon so it’s right
You are technically correct. Which is the best kind of correct!
so... blurry...
So, what you are saying is, if I have enough lunchables, I can run my car on them?
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Yep the math checks out.
They’re not wrong. But how will they work off those calories in the afterlife? (Assuming they believe in one)
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According to the internet a gallon of gasoline is 125,000 BTU of energy or 31520 kcals. Assuming he’s a young adult male let’s assume he requires 2500 kcals a day, a gallon of gasoline is almost 13 days worth of energy needs
This hurt my soul to read.
I remember it's 40-something megajoules per kilogram, which works out to a bit under 10000 "big calories" per liter.
So... Yeah, a gallon has the same energy as a few weeks worth of food, not decades.
As someone else said, it might last for "the rest of your life," but only because gasoline is poisonous and you might die soon after drinking it.
Food calories are actually kilocalories, while other forms of energy are just calories, so divide it by 1000
No - it's off by about a factor of 1000, because one US "food calorie" is actually 1000 energy calories. In most places outside the US, it's actually labeled as "kcal". Humans need 1500-2500 kcal per day, so a gallon of gas would give you about a week's worth of energy, not 50 years.
A gram of uranium can release 20 billion calories
r/theydidthemath rates this meme as 'Mostly True'
A human will almost certainly begin violently vomiting before they get the whole gallon down. Volitized gasoline from body heat and mixing with stomach acid will create gasoline vapor in the esophagus and mouth. Once this is inhaled, it will stick around in the lungs and oxidize any O2 before the body can get any oxygen into the blood.
Hypoxia begins to set in within minutes. Death is highly probable within an hour. Maybe a little longer.
If they survive the initial shock and vomit nearly all gasoline from their stomach to avoid poisoning, the lung injury will lead to chemical pneumonitis. They are likely dead within a day or two.
From there, survivors will likely die of any number of system failures as a result of the lung and GI injury within a week.
So, doing the math: 1 human • 1gal gasoline = T-minus 7days (a conservative figure)
1 gallon of gas is ~12days of calories
12days > 7days
This meme is verified as "mostly true." The meme confuses calories (little 'c') with Calories (big 'C') which is three orders of magnitude greater. What the meme gets right is that any Calories the body could have used for energy if metabolized, would certainly nourish the body until it's last, albeit abbreviated, breath.
Accurate.
r/TechnicallyTheTruth
How many grams of protein per serving?
This is we you micro dose. Just a few days worth at a time
I see; I have been shooting myself daily to build up an immunity to bullets. 1v1 me bruh
What size have you made it to?
How many calories in a pixel? I’m guessing that’s where they went
Give a man fire, keep him warm for a day, but set him on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life.
Technically correct, the best kind of correct.
As others said the math is off by ~1000x
Real amount of energy is more like 12-20 days