• esc27
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    191 year ago

    Pedantry is fact checking a comment, figuring out it would actually take around a cup (or 1/4 liter) of gasoline, then figuring out how to convert that to drops and pointing out it would actually take close to 4,700 drops, not just a few.

    • @rtxn
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      111 year ago

      Smart-assery is replying how it can still be consumed as just a single, very large drop.

      • Neon
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        61 year ago

        Smart-assery is replying that gasoline doesn’t have enough surface tension to form such a large drop.

        • @TheYear2525
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          31 year ago

          Lemmy-ing is recreating a typical Reddit thread but making sure every comment points out that they’re self-aware.

        • Ech
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          21 year ago

          What if you put it in a balloon and pop it into a funnel aimed into your mouth and you have no gag reflex?

    • @eating3645
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      1 year ago

      Hmmm let’s see, you need roughly 2.39kcal or 10kJ of fuel a day.

      Gasoline has an energy density of 45 MJ/kg.

      https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Energy_density

      Sciencing those together means you need 0.00022 kg or 0.22g of gasoline a day

      Gasoline has a mass density of 0.7475 g/cm^3, more sciencing means you need 0.294 cm^3 of gasoline by volume.

      https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/fuels-densities-specific-volumes-d_166.html (average across range and convert to g/cm^3)

      Here let’s pull a number out of our butts, let’s say a drop is a sphere with a diameter of 5mm, so the radius is 0.25cm. Volume is 4/3 pi r^3 which comes out to 0.065 cm^3/ drop.

      0.294/0.065 gives 4.5 drops.

      So you’d need 5 drops of gasoline to get your days worth of energy.

      Seems we’re off by a factor of a thousand. Most likely you doubled up on 1Calorie = 1000 calories. (Damnit food industry, what the hell?!?) 1kcal is already converted to the base calorie, as opposed to 1kCal.

    • @quindraco
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      41 year ago

      What ethanol percentage did you assume?