On Wed, 13 May 2009 12:20:19 -0700, Kevin Wampler wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Tue, 12 May 2009 19:03:21 -0700, Kevin Wampler wrote:
>> 
>>> Jim Henderson wrote:
>>>> Lethal doses of pure capsaicin that I've read about are about 47 mg
>>>> per kg of the victim.
>>> So we're talking like a half-teaspoon of capsaicin here?  That would
>>> indeed be a scary amount.
>> 
>> Per KG of weight for the "victim" - so if you weigh 150 KG, that would
>> be a pretty significant amount.
> 
> I must have messed up a unit conversion somewhere then, since I
> definitely don't weigh 150kg.

Not many people do. :-)

Jim

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