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“Human kidneys can only make urine that is less salty than salt water. Therefore, to get rid of all the excess salt taken in by drinking seawater, you have to u
by delightful 6y ago
“Human kidneys can only make urine that is less salty than salt water. Therefore, to get rid of all the excess salt taken in by drinking seawater, you have to urinate more water than you drank. Eventually, you die of dehydration even as you become thirstier.”
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https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/drinksw.html https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/drinksw.html
- forgotmypw17 6y agoTo be honest, I'm pretty skeptical of any information coming from a .gov domain. If you add up all the information disseminated by our government in the last 100 years, I don't think even half of it turned out to be factually correct in the end, meaning less truthful than randomness.
- wuwuno 6y agowhy don't you try it out and report back?
- nradov 6y ago"Water, water, everywhere, so let's all have a drink" -Homer Simpson
- CrazyStat 6y ago> I don't think even half of it turned out to be factually correct in the end, meaning less truthful than randomness. This implies a 50% chance that a randomly generated statement is true, which--without getting into the weeds on the generative model--is certainly false. For example, I can generate random statements of the form "I am X years old" for X \in {1, ..., 100}. Far from a 50% chance that the statement is factually correct.
- a1369209993 6y ago> without getting into the weeds on the generative model No, that very much depends on the weeds of the generative model. I can generate random statements of the form "I am not X years old" for X \in {1, ..., 100}.
- CrazyStat 6y agoAlso far from a 50% chance that the statement is correct.
- forgotmypw17 6y agoIf you limit to true/false statements, it is 0.5
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- corpmedia 6y agoBut hey, how about the salt that is sweat out and used for a number of body-functions. On the Kontiki expedition, they calculated that if they did not eat any salt in the food, they could add 1/3 ocean water to they drinking water.
- cafard 6y agoI read in a runners magazine years ago that one's sweat is less salty than one's blood. This was in the course of recommending against electrolyte drinks.