Since I drink so much Coca-Cola, apparently

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    Oh, so that’s why I have so much difficulty learning Rust, it’s all the coca-cola I’m drinking

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    If you pour water on iron it rusts it, imagine what all that water is doing to the iron in your body!

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        A single water molecule has more hydrogen atoms than all stars known in our solar system (totally stealing this joke)

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        I wanted to counter this with the fact that you and me are both still alive, so the rate is only approaching 100%, but probably never quite there. Then I did a safety google, and got to learn that fatality rate apparently doesn’t care about the time until death. So as long as I don’t assume I’m immortal, your fact still holds true. But then I remembered that some jellyfish and sponges are considered to be be more or less immortal. Which raises the question: do we count beings which will most probably die out due to the expansion of our own sun as part of that 100% rate?

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          But then I remembered that some jellyfish and sponges are considered to be be more or less immortal

          I think we are approaching Ship of Theseus territory.

          But more specifically I was referring to the human rate.

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    Your stomach acid can break down bone. The only safe way to survive is to remove your stomach from your body.

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    fun fact: hemoglobin (red blood cells) transport oxygen by… well, basically “rusting” an iron based protein that bonds to oxygen.

    if you stop rusting, you die! yippee!

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    I just took that to mean I can drink from the tub of food grade 85% phosphoric acid we have at the brewery

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    Because acids dislodge rust, and Coca-Cola contains citric acid, which is a very weak acid. If you’re looking for a comestible to remove rust, vinegar would work better.

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      I don’t know where you are, but real Coke is made with phosphoric acid, which is also used for rust removal or conversion.

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      citric acid can also chelate iron to some degree so on acid basis citric acid should dissolve rust a bit better than most. but coke is made with phosphoric acid which doesn’t do that