All too familiar...

by **smu diamond m** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 8:34 pm

http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/14/woman-dies-trying-to-win-a-wii/
If engadget isn't legitimate enough for you, they have a source link.

I thought people knew this could happen the LAST time it hit the news?

by **couch 'em** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 9:38 pm

Once again, if they had been drinking beer she would have puked it all up and lived.

by **bubba pony** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 2:40 pm

this happens to Marathon runners. it's called Hyponatremia. They use to be told to drink at every water stop. now drink only when your thirsty. Some Marathoners have died on the course due to over drinking water.

by **smu diamond m** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 3:49 pm

Thats interesting. When I work out (surprise, I know) I drink about a gallon (+/- 16 oz) during my 75 or so minute stint. I would think a marathon runner would perspire more than my fat toucas?

by **couch 'em** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 6:24 pm

They may be sweating it back out at twice the rate as you, but you have 3 times as much area to store it in.

by **smu diamond m** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 3:11 am

couch 'em wrote:They may be sweating it back out at twice the rate as you, but you have 3 times as much area to store it in.

But certainly the body can't uniformly store the water in all cells. There has to be some gradient of concentration that governs the flow of water into the cells. (hypotonic? hypertonic? isotonic? any biologists? I think is a hypertonic solution though)

by **EastStang** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:05 am

16 oz equals a quart (meaning a quarter of a gallon). A gallon has 64 oz. So, you drink a quart of water not a gallon. If you had a gallon you would be sloshing around as you worked out.

by **smu diamond m** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:22 pm

A gallon is 128 oz., a quart is 32 oz. I carry a 48 oz. nalgene bottle with me, and consume between 2 and 3 bottles of water. That means between 96 and 144 oz. Don't try and call me on something I'm not lying about. Drinking a gallon of water (8 lbs) is not all that big of a deal when you weigh almost 40 times that much.

by **smu diamond m** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:28 pm

My original reason for bumping this thread --

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/games/archives/2007/01/17/ten_sacked_in_wii_contest_tragedy.html

This was expected. Apparently they are possibly indicting some of them too.

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