Just using common averages I could find, a cup of coffee contains 95mg of caffeine. 42 cups is about 3990mg, or 3.9g.
A lethal dose of caffeine is about 10g consumed in a short period of time. 3.9g probably wouldn’t kill you and 42 cups would take a while to drink without throwing up. (I personally have consumed quite a bit caffeine when I was a kid and it put me in the ER for a few hours.)
You can try and drink that much coffee, but you won’t be a happy camper.
c/ theydidthemath
Besides, everyone knows 42 isn’t lethal, because you get superpowers at 100, so the limit’s gotta be somewhere over that. Source:
105.26 cups would be lethal if consumed at the same time and you were able to keep it down.
5.26 cups seems like an acceptable amount of wiggle room between superpowers and death.
42 is the number of cups you need to drink to learn the meaning of life. At 43 cups, you forget.
42 cups is ~12 liters if you drink that much water or coffee in one sitting your sodium balance will also be in trouble so if you don’t die from the caffeine you will die from that imbalance.
