The short answer is most of life on Earth shares some basic levels of chemistry. That doesn’t mean it’s a perfect fit though, just that human bodies are resilient enough to make due with terrible substitutes at times.
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mech@feddit.org 20 hours ago
Gets interesting when you start to wonder why a coconut and human blood have the same concentration of electrolytes.
ameancow@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
They don’t, not enough sodium for one thing. I guess you first use the clean juice to make them stop dying long enough so you can stitch what’s left of them together, and if they wake up you could tuck a salt pill under their tongue.
Agent641@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Yeah it’s actually a really shitty substitute for blood, it’s just slightly less shitty than dying. It was all about keeping the blood pressure high enough so that what little blood you had would work. Coconut water was one of the only things that could do that without also killing you. It’s still a very bad day
roguetrick@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Well you could always go the boiled water and some salt route. “Yo dog I heard you liked shock so I infused some water with bacteria antigens in it so you could go into shock while you’re going into shock.”
roguetrick@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Way too much potassium too. It’s like d5w with potassium and mag. Potentially quite deadly over the long term.
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 20 hours ago
Or why they both scream when you crack them open to get at the yummy liquid inside
Kn1ghtDigital@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
We are all coconuts. Someone tell the crab people!
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 20 hours ago
(I screenshotted this and sent it to Rust programmers)