If you were in the desert and you were really thirsty, would you drink a bottle of hot sauce?

[St✩rlight]

If you were in the desert and you were really thirsty, would you drink a bottle of hot sauce?

[WarHeRo]

chances of sruvival would reduce by 90%

i would not, no

[St✩rlight]

WarHeRo a écrit :

chances of sruvival would reduce by 90%

i would not, no

The hot sauce can kill you?

[WarHeRo]

spices can cause you to lose water because your body needs to eliminate them

its like trying to extinguish a fire with gasoline because it's also a liquid

[St✩rlight]

What about a bottle of ketchup?

[Fuki]

WarHeRo a écrit :

spices can cause you to lose water because your body needs to eliminate them

its like trying to extinguish a fire with gasoline because it's also a liquid

Oh

[TERRONE]

I got the sauce

[Maria]

Hot sauce, why do i find that familiar

[WarHeRo]

Starlight a écrit :

What about a bottle of ketchup?

its more or less the same

[St✩rlight]

WarHeRo a écrit :

Starlight a écrit :

What about a bottle of ketchup?

its more or less the same

So you would rather die than drink ketchup?

Maria a écrit :

Hot sauce, why do i find that familiar

Maybe you tried an experiment with hot sauce

[Daenoxiis]

The whole bottle? No, probably not.
But if I come across a cactus, I might put in the effort to get water out of it.
Wrap up what I can, take it with me.
And as for the hot sauce, actually a little bit of hot sauce is okay, it'll help make you sweat which will help cool your body down.
I was actually in Algeria for a couple months and it was 125 F during a drought there and no rain.
I asked a guy I know there who's a doctor why he was eating hot sauce even though it's hot outside and he explained to me that hot sauce makes you sweat, which triggers your body to cool down, and from there all you have to do is stay hydrated with electrolytes.
I'm not sure how much nutritional value is in a cactus, but I can imagine that you're stranded in the desert, you're probably quite limited on your nutritional resources as it is.
I would hope at least that I would get to see a Sand Cat at some point.
They're cute, look them up. ^_^

[WarHeRo]

Starlight a écrit :

WarHeRo a écrit :

its more or less the same

So you would rather die than drink ketchup?

drinking it will me die faster

[St✩rlight]

Daenoxiis a écrit :

The whole bottle? No, probably not.
But if I come across a cactus, I might put in the effort to get water out of it.
Wrap up what I can, take it with me.
And as for the hot sauce, actually a little bit of hot sauce is okay, it'll help make you sweat which will help cool your body down.
I was actually in Algeria for a couple months and it was 125 F during a drought there and no rain.
I asked a guy I know there who's a doctor why he was eating hot sauce even though it's hot outside and he explained to me that hot sauce makes you sweat, which triggers your body to cool down, and from there all you have to do is stay hydrated with electrolytes.
I'm not sure how much nutritional value is in a cactus, but I can imagine that you're stranded in the desert, you're probably quite limited on your nutritional resources as it is.
I would hope at least that I would get to see a Sand Cat at some point.
They're cute, look them up. ^_^

I watched something when I was young about a guy who got lost in the desert and he drank the cactus milk but it was basically acid and burnt his throat and mouth.

[OoOoOoooOOoOoorgle]

Hell no, that would kill you, vinegar will not hydrate you. Depending on the sauce there may be some useful salts or minerals in it that you could benefit from in small quantities - but this ONLY applies if you have a stable source of water.


But dump that ♥♥♥♥ out and repurpose the bottle! Bottles are amazing survival gear, you could even make a condensation catch with it if you have any flexible translucent material.

[C4Warr10r]

No. I was trained to drink my own urine, and thankfully, I've never had to do that. I did have to eat ants and chew some cactus, though, as part of the training regimen. If you're hungry or thirsty enough, ants are actually a bit juicy, and cactus does have some water in it, but it also has oxy-something (alyitic?) acid that will give you the poops real bad, and ultimately lead to dehydration. So we weren't supposed to eat the cacti. But we did anyway, because we knew the rescue vehicles were nearby. The Corpsmen wouldn't let us die.

And then we had the poops real bad, and kind of wished we were dead. There's nothing quite like sharing a communal outhouse with other Marines as we all create stench worse than death. Really, I think that's the appeal of socialism once people are forced into it. Everything sucks, and we all share it.

But everyone also wants to get out of it. Somehow, I was cursed to only ever serve in desert theaters lie 29 Palms, or near-desert the theaters like Iraq and Afghanistan. A lot of guys quit, because it sucked, but I got in good with the logi buddies from KBR and Halliburton, so I had an infinite supply of refreshing Dr. Pepper. And purified water. An occasionally some food. Sure beats drinking you own pee or eating cacti. And certainly, it's better than drinking the Tabasco sauce included in MREs. I don't know of anyone desperate enough to do that.

[WarHeRo]

Comfortable_East a écrit :

Daenoxiis a écrit :

The whole bottle? No, probably not.
But if I come across a cactus, I might put in the effort to get water out of it.
Wrap up what I can, take it with me.
And as for the hot sauce, actually a little bit of hot sauce is okay, it'll help make you sweat which will help cool your body down.
I was actually in Algeria for a couple months and it was 125 F during a drought there and no rain.
I asked a guy I know there who's a doctor why he was eating hot sauce even though it's hot outside and he explained to me that hot sauce makes you sweat, which triggers your body to cool down, and from there all you have to do is stay hydrated with electrolytes.
I'm not sure how much nutritional value is in a cactus, but I can imagine that you're stranded in the desert, you're probably quite limited on your nutritional resources as it is.
I would hope at least that I would get to see a Sand Cat at some point.
They're cute, look them up. ^_^

This would imply that our body doesn't know when to sweat, that it needs to be tricked by external stimulus to trigger sweating.
(This can happen in heatstroke, but here capsaicin is not the treatment)

And sweat is only half the story. If the air has 100% humidity, with ambient temperatures above normal body temperature say over 38°c with no moving air for convection to take place. No amount of sweat will cool you down.

There are far more efficient ways of cooling down the body.

He is coping with the defence mechanism called intellectualisation. Bud just really likes capsaicin a lot and there's nothing wrong with that irrespective of weather lol.

yes. i was wrong, u still cant joke