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I remember a more incremental approach: 1. Mash it and hold in the pit of your elbow for an hour. If no irritation, go to step 2. 2. Hold it in your mouth for
by Retra 10y ago
I remember a more incremental approach:
1. Mash it and hold in the pit of your elbow for an hour. If no irritation, go to step 2.
2. Hold it in your mouth for an hour. If no irritation, go to step 3.
3. Eat a bite and wait a few hours. If no irritation, go to step 4.
4. Eat a small amount and wait a few hours. If no irritation, it's probably safe to eat.
- athenot 10y agoIt might be good to wait a few hours to a day between each step. Urushiol (Poison Ivy et al.) usually takes about 4-6 hours to start showing symptoms.
- TheGrumpyBrit 10y ago"This man died of starvation" "But how is that possible? He's surrounded by fruit!"
- coldtea 10y agoAnd apples at that!
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- pmoriarty 10y agoThe rule of thumb is that you can survive: 3 minutes without air 3 days without water 3 weeks without food So you're probably not going to die without food if you go even for some days without it. In fact, many people regularly fast for days on end, some (such as people on hunger strikes) have fasted for weeks. Of course, all of the above rules of thumb are subject to modifications based on things such as the amount of physical exertion you're under, your health, the weather, etc. If you're doing lots of exercise in the heat, you're going to need a lot more water than if you're lying still in the shade.
- csl 10y agoYep, that's a condensed version of the universal edibility test. It's on page 103 in the FM 21-76 US ARMY SURVIVAL MANUAL: http://www.preppers.info/uploads/FM21-76_SurvivalManual.pdf http://www.preppers.info/uploads/FM21-76_SurvivalManual.pdf
- sleepychu 10y agoStep 1 reminded me of an amusing problem: - 16 bottles of wine, one has been poisoned. - poison takes 1 hour to kill you, party is in 1 hour. - you have 4 prisoners you don't mind sacrificing to find out which bottle is poisonous but obviously you'll need to do all your sampling now because otherwise you won't know which bottle not to use in time for the party. EDIT:16 not 17 bottles of wine.
- 50CNT 10y agoWhilst this is a permutations problem, what parties need wine that much that you'd risk fatally poisoning people?
- rocqua 10y agoNot people, prisoners. The point is to not poison the actual people attending the party, yet still give them wine.
- pvaldes 10y ago... and as second goal, becoming a prisoner in jail some time later, for the cheap prize of some bottles of wine. This is the kind of problems that AI machines would try to solve, wrongly. Humans still score better understanding that some theoretical problems must not be solved.
- eveningcoffee 10y agoApparently you failed the scum detector. Good luck in your future encounters.
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- joss82 10y agoOne exception to these rules. It will pass all your tests without causing any irritation but still kills you in the end: "There are no negative symptoms from eating this fungus until 6–24 hours after ingestion" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_verna https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_verna
- seszett 10y agoUnknown mushrooms though, should really be your very last recourse, only if there's really, really nothing else to eat at all where you are.
- kbart 10y agoMany mushrooms are toxic when raw (even the ones used for food), so you should better stay with fruit and berries.
- mdturnerphys 10y agoThe rules are for plants :)