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science_man_88 2012-04-25 12:02

[URL="http://news.yahoo.com/over-300-000-could-lose-internet-access-july-143030403.html"]Over 300,000 could lose Internet access by July: FBI[/URL]

[QUOTE]Six Estonians were arrested on charges of fraud in November after a two-year FBI sting -- Operation Ghost Click -- into the group's practice of infecting computers around the world with their DNS Changer malware, which made the machines vulnerable to viruses. A Russian collaborator remains at large.[/QUOTE]

Batalov 2012-04-27 20:34

[URL]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2135434/Egypts-plans-farewell-intercourse-law-husbands-sex-DEAD-wives-branded-complete-nonsense.html[/URL]

ATH 2012-04-30 06:30

Woman's 10 Litre A Day Coca-Cola Habit May Have Contributed To Her Death:

[URL="http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16213117"]http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16213117[/URL]

LaurV 2012-04-30 08:03

I am not a cola lover, but god forgive me, 10 liters?!? :sirrobin:This quantity of liquid per day could kill you no matter what it is. Including the purest water from Evian...

Dubslow 2012-04-30 08:23

[QUOTE=LaurV;297965]I am not a cola lover, but god forgive me, 10 liters?!? :sirrobin:This quantity of liquid per day could kill you no matter what it is. Including the purest water from Evian...[/QUOTE]Indeed. "Warning label for Coke" my @$$.

science_man_88 2012-04-30 12:00

[QUOTE=LaurV;297965]I am not a cola lover, but god forgive me, 10 liters?!? :sirrobin:This quantity of liquid per day could kill you no matter what it is. Including the purest water from Evian...[/QUOTE]

my record for just water is about 32 cups a day ( going with 250 instead of 236 you get about 8 liters) though I think I got water intoxication symptoms that day.

LaurV 2012-04-30 12:32

[QUOTE=science_man_88;297976]my record for just water is about 32 cups a day ( going with 250 instead of 236 you get about 8 liters) though I think I got water intoxication symptoms that day.[/QUOTE]
Be careful. For sure you can die from that! It is not how much you drink, but how fast you do it. Drinking too much water too fast can kill you, the neurons will take in the water and increase in volume and crack open. I remember reading some years ago about a women who died like that. Let me search it.

Found[URL="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but-true-drinking-too-much-water-can-kill"] something related[/URL]. There is no joke! Too much water can kill you.

science_man_88 2012-04-30 12:58

[QUOTE=LaurV;297978]Be careful. For sure you can die from that! It is not how much you drink, but how fast you do it. Drinking too much water too fast can kill you, the neurons will take in the water and increase in volume and crack open. I remember reading some years ago about a women who died like that. Let me search it.

Found[URL="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but-true-drinking-too-much-water-can-kill"] something related[/URL]. There is no joke! Too much water can kill you.[/QUOTE]

I think part of it was because of exercise and the rest was diluting sodium. I'm more afraid of it shutting down ADH and having polyuria.

Dubslow 2012-04-30 12:59

[QUOTE=LaurV;297978]
Found[URL="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but-true-drinking-too-much-water-can-kill"] something related[/URL]. There is no joke! Too much water can kill you.[/QUOTE]

Too much anything will kill you. It shouldn't surprise anyone.

firejuggler 2012-04-30 13:13

Too much life can kill you. Wait! it does!

bcp19 2012-04-30 15:19

[QUOTE=LaurV;297965]I am not a cola lover, but god forgive me, 10 liters?!? :sirrobin:This quantity of liquid per day could kill you no matter what it is. Including the purest water from Evian...[/QUOTE]

Depends on where you are and what you are doing. While in the Navy, I was on a ship that pulled into Mombasa, Kenya, where I was sent on a helicopter to the airport to palletize cargo and then wrap it with a net for transport, all in 100+ dergree heat out on the flightline. During that day, I drank 14 1-liter bottles of water without needing to go to the bathroom once.


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