• perishthethought@lemm.ee
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    6 days ago

    This seems like a XKCD / Randall Munroe “What if” kind of question. I.e., how long would a person survive if all of the water inside them was turned into wine?

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      A quick search suggests that blood is 80% water. Turning that into wine at a weak concentration of 5.5% results in around at 14.5% BAC which is over 10 times greater than the highest ever recorded, so it would be certainly lethal.

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        You somehow didn’t answer the question, and the thing you said instead is completely obvious to anyone.

        If there’s a cousin of Jesus that turns people’s brains into porridge, you’ve certainly been on the receiving end of that power.

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          To be specific, it’d likely immediately fuck up the electrical signals in the brain, thus killing the brain.

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            That’s an understatement, it would also add a bunch of alcohol and all kinds of sugars and proteins inside every single cell. I bet that would instantly mess up every single biological process.

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      Seconds as wine amd water do not have the same consistency. Your blood cells won’t move effectively enough and a BAC of 6% is extremely fatal as most will die at .6%