But why does it
Poop Knife
Submitted 1 month ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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mononomi@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Depress_Mode@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
Bro thought an inuit joke was real.
NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Because sometimes you just have to find out.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Sometimes you just got to know.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
In conclusion, the results support the hypothesis that fecal knives are usually shitty knives
– the paper, probably
Digital_man@lemmy.one 1 month ago
yamanii@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I would watch videos fact checking these knives, I think I saw a chocolate knife or cardboard knife
10_0@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Nutted
enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month 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 1 month ago
The alleged knife would be frozen, not dried. It would be much like the ice he was enclosed in
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 month ago
Use pee instead. Make an ice pee-k.
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 1 month ago
I make it into a iurine-ice-bullet… untraceable
Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
RobinSohn@feddit.org 1 month ago
That hypthesis turned out to be shit.
degen@midwest.social 1 month ago
Gonna need a meta-analysis to be sure
AernaLingus@hexbear.net 1 month 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 1 month ago
Appropriate content for the publisher
10_0@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Funny how you just know this will come up as a defense in a trial somewhere somehow
Gork@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I like that it took 7 researchers to do this study. It shows commitment to the cause.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 month 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 1 month ago
Might as well get paid grant money for poop time.
asg101@hexbear.net 1 month ago
But smearing human feces on sharpened stakes makes them super effective against invaders.
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They should try again using petrified coprolite…
Dave2@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I never thought I would say this but this time science is wrong
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Citations please.
Dave2@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
It has to work… It has to…
daqu@feddit.org 1 month ago
Not enough fibre/fur
BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Or too much. Exactly my thought
phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Fiber maybe but no one is eating actual fur.
RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 1 month ago
L-sevier
rockerface@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Now we’re shitposting