I nominate this post for BS of the day! More specifically, you really think water is 3% E Coli? And the moon landing was faked, too, right?

quote:<HR>Originally posted by Downhill Racer:
I nominate this post for BS of the day! More specifically, you really think water is 3% E Coli? And the moon landing was faked, too, right?<HR>

Not so good with math, huh?

quote:<HR>Originally posted by reboot:
It was demonstrated that if we drink 1 liter of water each day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli, (E. coli) - bacteria found in feces.<HR>

Water weighs (about) 1 gram per cc... 1 liter is 1000 cc...

1 l/day * 1000 cc/l * 1 gram /cc * 365 day/year / 1000 g/kilo = 365 kilos per year of water. So... 1 kilo of poop would be 1 / 365 = 0.27397 or about 0.3% poop.

And what makes you so sure we landed on the moon? See here[/URL" target="_blank">.

I'm gonna go have a beer.

I want to have this thread's baby

I think even 0.3% E.coli is way pushing it.

The only number I could find in a quick search for maximum upper limit of E.coli in municipal water was: 2,000 e-coli/100 ml. Volume of E.coli is 1x10^-15 L. 2000/100ml times 1000 mL/L times 1x10^-15 x 100% = 2x 10^-9 % E.coli. I wouldn't necessarily consider that significant, especially considering that most E.coli is completely harmless to humans. Every fruit, vegetable, grain, legume, and piece of meat we eat is also drenched in poop, that doesn't make it unhealthful. I'm much more afraid of chemical contaminants like pesticides, dioxin, plastics, etc. in water, but I can't find data on how much of those is actually in the water where I live, so I can just hope my water filter is helping and I'm reducing my exposure elsewhere.

quote:<HR>Originally posted by Ariann:
1 kg poop out of 365 kg a year is 0.274 fractional part, which is 27.4%.<HR>

Are you daft? Let's just try some round estimates, OK? 10% of 365kg would be...? Right, about 36kg. 1% would be what? Right, about 3.6kg. So 1kg would be... About 1/4 of that or about 1/4 of 1% or about 0.25%, right? Wanna rethink your 30% number?

Yup, you're right. I don't know where my zeros went!

quote:<HR>Originally posted by refinnej10:
I read a very interesting book called (something like) The History of the World through 7 Drinks.<HR>

That would likely be A History of the World in Six Glasses[/URL" target="_blank">.