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You can drink a little amount of salt water and probably come out ahead... Drink too much and you get into a death spiral though
Why
Because your kidneys can filter out a certain percentage of salt, and that's based on the blood concentration
But if your blood goes above the level where the water is being drawn out of your cells and drying them out, you'll be dehydrated from the inside out
Why
Salt is hydrophile, which means it attracts water.
Real worried we're going to enter a Richard Feynman level why spiral
You only ever need 3 whys
Why?
It's basic homeostasis, homie!
I dont follow...
How does limiting to 3 whys achieve homeostasis?
I just answer 1 why to every why cuz fucked if I know im only ever on here pooping and people do wirrd shit when they pooo
Why?
(Embrace the whyception)
Na pretty sure this is where the off balance of homeostasis happens and the whys are the too much salt in the equation. My homeostasis reply only binds with thre initial why but has no relevance with the second layer of whys
Why?
I imagine this is similar to Socratic inquiry.
or the first Heidegger bit in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmNGeZbbV7I about the endless why
Why?
because salt and water happen to be composed in such a way that they fit together nicely, and salt attracts the water in a similar way to a magnet. The positive and negative charges of the salt ions (Sodium+, Chloride–) fit into and attract the opposite charges of the water ions (Hydrogen–, Oxygen+).
It's simple homeostasis, homeslice!
I felt bad for the interviewer at first, until the guy really got into his explanation. He wasn't being a dick, he was just saying "why" is a really deep question.
Yeah he does start out a bit blunt thankfully it had a point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmosis
Osmosis Jones, my man.
Drixenol
Evolution and shit
It's from homeostasis, homefry!
Because you can have a little salt, as a treat.
You certainly won’t regret drinking a half gallon of salt water
It's your body doin homeostasis, hombre!
Your body needs some salt, and it sweats out salt. So it needs to be replaced.
That is a good question for a nephrologist.