#cerbera

[englishcarssince1946]

2002 TVR Cerbera

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[kingdrawcse]

Chemistry behind 'Suicide Tree'

Introducing the eerie Cerbera odollam tree! 🌳 Its fruit, resembling a mango, thrives in Kerala, southwest India. But beware! This seemingly innocent plant harbors a deadly secret. Its fruits contain a potent toxin, causing symptoms similar to heart disease, with no easy detection. Dubbed the 'Suicide Tree,' it has been tragically employed for sinister purposes. Cerberin, a treacherous cardiac glycoside, lurks within its branches. A chilling reminder of nature's dark side. 🌿⚠️

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TVR Cerbera

[diabolus1exmachina]

TVR Cerbera Speed 12 

This is a terrifying machine.  And it’s a car so terrifying that, after a test drive of one of the prototypes, the boss of TVR decided against putting it into production. And when that boss was Peter Wheeler, who thought airbags were more trouble than they were worth and that ABS was just a crutch for poorly set up cars, you likely have some idea of what it takes to terrify him. In fact, we’d argue that Wheeler’s the man who made TVR a byword for terrifying. After he took the reins of TVR, he ditched the Cologne V6s in favour of Rover V8s. Which he then pushed out, bored out and maxed out. But after nearly tripling the Rover V8’s power, Wheeler ditched it entirely in favour of a V8 and straight-six of TVR’s own design. TVR’s tilt at top-tier racing, however, would require even more madness. But then it would, considering it was shaping up to be Blackpool’s merchants of oversteer up against the industrial might of Mercedes, the racing pedigree of Porsche and the bona fide genius of Gordon Murray. Yep, TVR’s planned racer would be up against the Mercedes CLK GTR, Porsche GT1 and McLaren F1 Longtail. Surmounting such a daunting challenge was approached in... let’s say typical TVR fashion. The 7.7-litre V12 (which was, at its most basic, two of TVR’s AJP-6 straight sixes combined) apparently snapped the input shaft of TVR’s 1,000bhp-rated dyno. A top speed in excess of the McLaren F1 was mooted. And, yes, Peter Wheeler, who raced 500bhp-per-tonne TVRs in the one-make Tuscan Challenge, was so spooked by the end result that he deemed the road-going Speed 12 entirely too bonkers and pulled the pin on the road-going car. Yes, too bonkers for TVR. Imagine how mad. See, TVR did end up building just one Speed 12 road car – an amalgam of road car, prototype chassis, and racing parts – and sold it to a buyer personally vetted by Wheeler himself. And it was every bit the madman that everyone expected it to be. The sheer weight of what was onboard the Speed 12– namely, that 7.7-litre V12, with around 850bhp and 900lb ft – was belied only by the eventual kerb weight: around 1,000kg. 

[griffinsspike]

Meet Cerbera Ferrous.

(art by Sylreion)

He's a floofy-haired gremlin with some metallic theming. I don't have a story in mind for him, but I like to imagine he's terrifying. It makes for a fun contrast with how nice he looks. His name comes from the infamous and frightening TVR Cerbera Speed Twelve.

Also, his glasses are nonagon-shaped. And I should give him more accessories sometime.

[stoneoferech]

1998 TVR Cerbera Speed 12 Concept

Copyright: Lambolog

[englishcarssince1946]

1995 TVR Cerbera

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[herpsandbirds]

Southern Cassowary (Casuarius casuarius), EAT A TASTY FRUIT!!!, family Casuariidae, order Casuariiformes, northern QLD, Australia

Cassowary Plum (Cerbera floribunda), family Apocynaceae.

Cassowaries are the only seed disperser for this toxic fruit.

Photograph by Kelvin Davies & Ethan Mann Save the Daintree Rainforest

[lochlogie]

The seeds contain a toxin (cerberin) that mainly causes nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and bradycardia. What makes this compound deadly is that it causes you to become hyperkalemic (because it binds to a certain pump in the cell membrane), meaning you build up Potassium in your blood. This eventually makes it too difficult for your heart muscles to achieve the action potential necessary to contract, aka your heart stops. So I imagine it feels a bit like being oxygen starved followed by losing consciousness and then never waking up. Aside from the vomiting it doesn't seem that painful of a way to go. It kind of just switches you off.

The way Lochlan dies on screen is pretty accurate. Profuse vomiting, followed by confusion/hallucination as his brain becomes oxygen starved, and then his breathing stops and we can assume his heart stops too. Considering he was magically brought back to life, I don't think there will be any side effects or lingering complications.

I wish I knew more about how the poison actually kills people. Like did they have a tiny bit of internal bleeding after taking a few sips? Like burning a hole in their stomach? Or does it like mess with your nervous system or circulatory system?? Or just slow you down your muscles until your heart stops?

[vintageclassiccars]

The Cerbera was released in 1996 by the low-volume British automaker TVR as their first true mass-market GT car, offering 2+2 seating, a fixed roof, and an in-house developed 4.2 V8 engine.

Silodrome.

[frenchcurious]

TVR Cerbera 1998. - source Bring a Trailer.