But why does it
Poop Knife
Submitted 7 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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mononomi@feddit.nl 7 months ago
Depress_Mode@lemmy.world 7 months ago
In his 1953 autobiography, Danish explorer Peter Freuchen claimed that in 1926, he became trapped in a blizzard while running a dog team and was forced to take shelter under his sled for 30 hours while snow built up and froze around him. When he tried to emerge, he found he was entombed in ice and unable to break free with his hands alone. Thinking quickly, he took a shit right there, shaped the turd into a chisel, and allowed it to freeze solid. He then claims he was able to use his newly made tool to chip his way free and make it back to camp. Peter was the only witness to his supposed escape. The study mentions it’s based on an Inuit ethnographic account, however. Maybe Peter, having spent much time in the Arctic with Inuit peoples simply took the story for himself. With the runners of the study finding that they were unable to replicate such a technique, it lends credibility to the claim that story may have been fabricated.
ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 7 months ago
With the runners of the study finding that they were unable to replicate such a technique, it lends credibility to the claim that story may have been fabricated.
ah, but did they eat what he ate beforehand?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 months ago
Bro thought an inuit joke was real.
NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Because sometimes you just have to find out.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 months ago
Sometimes you just got to know.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
In conclusion, the results support the hypothesis that fecal knives are usually shitty knives
– the paper, probably
Digital_man@lemmy.one 7 months ago
yamanii@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I would watch videos fact checking these knives, I think I saw a chocolate knife or cardboard knife
10_0@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Nutted
enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
I have accidentally picked up a dried cat turd when younger, thinking it was rock. It was a bit fragile, easily break into dust. I realized it because it was not as heavy as an actual rock of the same size.
Based on that, my unscientific conclusion is that even if it’s frozen, it’ll be hard to shape and easily breaks because it behaves more like dust/sand instead of cream.
psud@aussie.zone 7 months ago
The alleged knife would be frozen, not dried. It would be much like the ice he was enclosed in
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 months ago
Use pee instead. Make an ice pee-k.
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 7 months ago
I make it into a iurine-ice-bullet… untraceable
Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
RobinSohn@feddit.org 7 months ago
That hypthesis turned out to be shit.
degen@midwest.social 7 months ago
Gonna need a meta-analysis to be sure
AernaLingus@hexbear.net 7 months ago
Davis states that the original source of the tale was Olayuk Narqitarvik. It was allegedly Olayuk’s grandfather in the 1950s who refused to go to the settlements and thus fashioned a knife from his own feces to facilitate his escape by skinning and disarticulating a dog. Davis has admitted that the story could be “apocryphal”, and that initially he thought the Inuit who told him this story was “pulling his leg”.
That’s a long payoff for a practical joke, but totally worth it.
Also, unsurprisingly, they won the 2020 Ig Nobel Prize in Materials Science (lol) for this one (video of the ceremony, Ig Nobel “lecture” from the authors)
BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Appropriate content for the publisher
10_0@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Funny how you just know this will come up as a defense in a trial somewhere somehow
Gork@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I like that it took 7 researchers to do this study. It shows commitment to the cause.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 months ago
I don’t think that this is the type of project you can go in “half-assed.” You need both cheeks for this.
veroxii@aussie.zone 7 months ago
Might as well get paid grant money for poop time.
asg101@hexbear.net 7 months ago
But smearing human feces on sharpened stakes makes them super effective against invaders.
over_clox@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They should try again using petrified coprolite…
Dave2@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
I never thought I would say this but this time science is wrong
fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 months ago
Citations please.
Dave2@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
It has to work… It has to…
daqu@feddit.org 7 months ago
Not enough fibre/fur
BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Or too much. Exactly my thought
phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Fiber maybe but no one is eating actual fur.
RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 7 months ago
L-sevier
rockerface@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Now we’re shitposting