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coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 12:42 pm

Water is slightly more dense than a human on average (997 vs 985 kg/m^3). Hydrochlortic acid is a close to 5-6% higher (1048) so it might average out to a bit higher weight depending on how much is person vs acid but not significantly higher.

Edit: That makes for a very random first post for a new page.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 12:53 pm

Anonymous Bosch wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 12:34 pm Yeah, but does a 55 gallon drum of water outweigh a 55 gallon drum containing the necessary acids to dissolve human tissue plus said human tissue?

The real question is does a 55 gallon drum filled with ~40 gallons of acid + dropping in sectioned body parts weigh more than a 55 gallon drum that's just filled with water?

You can't fill the whole barrel with acid, you silly-billy - need to account for Archimedes' principle. We can't have acid splashing out over the top of the container!

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 12:54 pm

I feel like a calf who's wandered into a reddit forum called "how to make veal at home"....

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 1:06 pm

~8 lb/gallon for water.

And different fluids with different densities change the math.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 1:08 pm

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 12:53 pm
Anonymous Bosch wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 12:34 pm Yeah, but does a 55 gallon drum of water outweigh a 55 gallon drum containing the necessary acids to dissolve human tissue plus said human tissue?
The real question is does a 55 gallon drum filled with ~40 gallons of acid + dropping in sectioned body parts weigh more than a 55 gallon drum that's just filled with water?

You can't fill the whole barrel with acid, you silly-billy - need to account for Archimedes' principle. We can't have acid splashing out over the top of the container!

Body parts go in first.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 1:10 pm

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 2:19 pm

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 1:08 pm
Smoove_B wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 12:53 pm
Anonymous Bosch wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 12:34 pm Yeah, but does a 55 gallon drum of water outweigh a 55 gallon drum containing the necessary acids to dissolve human tissue plus said human tissue?
The real question is does a 55 gallon drum filled with ~40 gallons of acid + dropping in sectioned body parts weigh more than a 55 gallon drum that's just filled with water?

You can't fill the whole barrel with acid, you silly-billy - need to account for Archimedes' principle. We can't have acid splashing out over the top of the container!
Body parts go in first.

But then how do you get hundreds of gallons of acid up to the 3rd floor where the bodies are?

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 2:22 pm

Straws.

Fardaza · Post by **Fardaza** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 2:30 pm

Unagi wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 2:19 pm
But then how do you get hundreds of gallons of acid up to the 3rd floor where the bodies are?

Exactly Unagi! Were these empty barrels she asked you to cart upstairs? I'd only be worried if they ask you to help haul jugs of acid upstairs!

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 2:33 pm

Had those rain barrels when our water was out. No way anyone is lifting full barrels.

Jaymon · Post by **Jaymon** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 2:35 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 10:25 am

But I gotta tell ya, TV has taught me the only reason you have 55 gallon drums is to either dissolve bodies in acid, or to store said dissolved bodies. Now I'm worried the kindly family on floor 3 are actually serial killers.

There can be Other Reasons

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 2:39 pm

Trust me, you do NOT want to see me emerging sexily from a barrel. That can only end in one of two ways: a justified Stand Your Ground defense, or me slipping while trying to climb out and accidentally killing one of your pets.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 2:41 pm

I'm pretty certain based on most movies that those blue drums exist solely for the purpose of holding water so cars crash in to them in car chase scenes.

I'd be afraid that they are building and expressway off ramp into the third floor of your apartment building.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 3:43 pm

coopasonic wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 11:22 am If you have to "check" how much 55 gallons of water would weigh...

...then you probably live a life where you haven't needed to know the weight of water more than once per decade.

And is anybody calculating the extra ~25 pounds for the drums?

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 4:12 pm

What's an extra 75 pounds between friends?

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 4:13 pm

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 3:43 pm
coopasonic wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 11:22 am If you have to "check" how much 55 gallons of water would weigh...
...then you probably live a life where you haven't needed to know the weight of water more than once per decade.

It's not like he's trying to drown witches as often as you.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 4:22 pm

hepcat wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 4:13 pm
Blackhawk wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 3:43 pm
coopasonic wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 11:22 am If you have to "check" how much 55 gallons of water would weigh...
...then you probably live a life where you haven't needed to know the weight of water more than once per decade.

It's not like he's trying to drown witches as often as you.

I think numbers just stick in my brain. I can't remember anyone's name, but I remember my driver's license number for 1989.

A gallon = 128 oz = 8 pounds. Have I ever actually needed to know that? I mean maybe in high school or college it was applicable at some point.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 4:28 pm

Unless I use it regularly, I just brush that stuff under the rug in my brain, then look it up on the rare instance that I need it.

Not that I don't have my own assortment of odd facts that I never use.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 4:32 pm

coopasonic wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 4:22 pm A gallon = 128 oz = 8 pounds. Have I ever actually needed to know that? I mean maybe in high school or college it was applicable at some point.

Needed to know it while backpacking through New Mexico - trying to figure out how much you could carry along with all your gear. Learned it at the age of 13 and I guess because it helped keep me alive, it stuck with me.

Also, I have to have my tools.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 5:43 pm

The lawnmower I bought last year is a 2010 model I think. The blades have never been sharpened. They are dull as bricks. I cant get it to the shop to have them sharpened and cant afford them to come out. So I need to get them off and do it myself. It turned into a Robin Williams stand up routine but wasn't a bit funny.

Will it start? FUCK no! Is the battery dead? FUCK yeah! Will my jumper cables work? FUCK no! Are they broke? FUCK yeah! Get it started and jacked up high enough. Will my wrech fit? FUCK no! Will the other wrench fit? FUCK no! Pass out while looking for wrenches? FUCK yeah! Can you find your damn adjustable crescent wrench? FUCK no! Shove it back in garage and lock it up. Lost your sharpie? FUCK yeah! Locked key in garage? FUCK yeah!

Im done. F it . Cant mow until its sharp have no way to sharpen it. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee my life.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 5:47 pm

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 4:32 pm Also, I have to have my tools.

Are you a five-star man?

Daehawk wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 5:43 pm It turned into a Robin Williams stand up routine but wasn't a bit funny.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 5:50 pm

Took my blood pressure. 90/60. Stupid stuff.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 6:45 pm

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 5:47 pm Are you a five-star man?

I just gotta shed the dead weight!

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 8:46 pm

Yuck! Just threw up. I hate doing that. It tasted like medicine and acid. No food. I dont see how medicine could sit in my stomach all day yet the food and drinks Ive had around 3 or 4 have passed through it seemed. Wasn't any food in it. Hows that even possible?? Ugh.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 8:55 pm

Next time you feel like posting something like this why don't you post a youtube video or a funny picture of something completely different.
Thank You.

Kasey Chang · Post by **Kasey Chang** » Wed Mar 16, 2022 9:04 pm

It's kinda weird how prices work on Amazon. I can order a whole case of Shin Ramyun the spicy Korean instant noodles, for somewhere about 16 pack for $31 ($26.50 if I go subscribe and save), 18 pack for $32, or 40 pack for $68. (This is the regular "red" packs, not the premium black stuff)

But the really weird part is they are available in individual packs on Amazon Fresh for $0.99 per pack. Why would I order a box when I can get them cheaper individually?

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Thu Mar 17, 2022 10:46 am

Anonymous Bosch · Post by **Anonymous Bosch** » Thu Mar 17, 2022 11:27 am

Kasey Chang wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 9:04 pm It's kinda weird how prices work on Amazon. I can order a whole case of Shin Ramyun the spicy Korean instant noodles, for somewhere about 16 pack for $31 ($26.50 if I go subscribe and save), 18 pack for $32, or 40 pack for $68. (This is the regular "red" packs, not the premium black stuff)

But the really weird part is they are available in individual packs on Amazon Fresh for $0.99 per pack. Why would I order a box when I can get them cheaper individually?

That usually boils down to the pricier items being "sold by" third party Amazon merchants with Prime shipping vs. Amazon themselves, i.e. Amazon Fresh.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Mar 17, 2022 12:11 pm

Im not good at wishing people a happy St paddy Day. Everytime I started to wish someone that today Id say Happy then forget the holiday and pause then finish it.

Kasey Chang · Post by **Kasey Chang** » Thu Mar 17, 2022 1:25 pm

Anonymous Bosch wrote: ↑Thu Mar 17, 2022 11:27 am That usually boils down to the pricier items being "sold by" third party Amazon merchants with Prime shipping vs. Amazon themselves, i.e. Amazon Fresh.

Guess Amazon doesn't want to crush all the third-party vendors. But the prices are idiotic. Really. I can walk across the street and get it cheaper in Chinatown for the larger qtys. But ordering individual packs are cheaper delivered to my house. It's just weird.

hepcat · Post by **hepcat** » Thu Mar 17, 2022 1:37 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Thu Mar 17, 2022 12:11 pm Im not good at wishing people a happy St paddy Day. Everytime I started to wish someone that today Id say Happy then forget the holiday and pause then finish it.

I have the same trouble with Arbor Day.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Mar 17, 2022 2:11 pm

Kasey Chang wrote: ↑Thu Mar 17, 2022 1:25 pm
Anonymous Bosch wrote: ↑Thu Mar 17, 2022 11:27 am That usually boils down to the pricier items being "sold by" third party Amazon merchants with Prime shipping vs. Amazon themselves, i.e. Amazon Fresh.
Guess Amazon doesn't want to crush all the third-party vendors. But the prices are idiotic. Really. I can walk across the street and get it cheaper in Chinatown for the larger qtys. But ordering individual packs are cheaper delivered to my house. It's just weird.

I HATE those third party greedy asshats. I never buy from them. Why would I pay then $25 for an item I can get down the street for $3.??

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Thu Mar 17, 2022 2:13 pm

My little dog woke up in the middle of the night sick too. Not nausea but bowls it seems. So we are both on a semi fasting today. We neither one will be eating until 6pm . I went to town and got some fresh chicken breasts and white rice. A bland meal and small one at that for both of us tonight of rick and non season non salted boiled chicken.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Thu Mar 17, 2022 2:33 pm

One of my little dogs has bowel problems 66% of the time. But then he recovers and eats a ton.

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Thu Mar 17, 2022 2:34 pm

My wife suprised me with this tank top shirt for my morning walk on this St Patrick's Day:

AWS260 · Post by **AWS260** » Thu Mar 17, 2022 3:35 pm

I don't know what thread to put this in. It may be indirectly Ukraine-related, but not about Ukraine. It's not really political, but definitely involves geopolitics. It's sort of sports.

Anyway, WNBA superstar Brittney Griner has been detained in Russia for the past month, with no end in sight.

A Russian court has extended the detention of the W.N.B.A. star Brittney Griner to May 19, the Russian news agency Tass reported on Thursday, adding tension to the most dangerous moment in U.S.-Russia relations since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.

Ms. Griner, 31, a seven-time W.N.B.A. All-Star center for the Phoenix Mercury, is being held on drug charges that could carry a sentence of up to 10 years in prison.

The Russian Federal Customs Service said earlier this month that its officials had detained the American basketball player after they found vape cartridges containing hashish oil in her luggage at the Sheremetyevo airport near Moscow in February. They did not immediately release the name of Ms. Griner, who was later identified by Tass.

Ms. Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, is one of several W.N.B.A. players who compete on international women’s teams in the off-season to supplement paychecks that are a fraction of their counterparts’ salaries in the N.B.A. She has played for the Russian team, UMMC Ekaterinburg, since 2014.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Thu Mar 17, 2022 3:38 pm

I feel bad for her but she should have known better. Especially in a foreign country. And Russia to boot.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Thu Mar 17, 2022 3:44 pm

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Thu Mar 17, 2022 3:58 pm

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 17, 2022 3:38 pm I feel bad for her but she should have known better. Especially in a foreign country. And Russia to boot.

It's widely assumed that the drugs were planted on her to make a political point.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Thu Mar 17, 2022 4:00 pm

Holman wrote: ↑Thu Mar 17, 2022 3:58 pm
dbt1949 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 17, 2022 3:38 pm I feel bad for her but she should have known better. Especially in a foreign country. And Russia to boot.
It's widely assumed that the drugs were planted on her to make a political point.

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised either way