“Oh fuck, rocks?! That’s right, let’s try rocks next. Duh!”
-Rocket scientist, caked in blood and potato debris
What am I supposed to do with all this blood now?
Submitted 5 months ago by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to [deleted]
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Snapz@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Blyfh@lemmy.world 5 months ago
There called rocket scientists for a reason, not rock scientists.
WagnasT@lemmy.world 5 months ago
is this spudnik?
franklin@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Pokemon de terra
Burninator05@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Keep in mind that it doesn’t say that blood is bad for making bricks. Just that it is worse than potatoes. The real deciding factor will be which is cheaper to get in space.
Sabata11792@ani.social 5 months ago
This closes off a few bad endings for humanity.
synae@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
Think again, scientists are often ignored
Sabata11792@ani.social 5 months ago
As long as potatoes have a higher profit margin than blood, the real mosnsters will choose potatoes.
squid_slime@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I know this is a meme but actually looking into this is very interesting, the question being answered is “how can we build on distant planets” which scientists from Manchester university have tried to answer with human waste products and space dust. Any food production on a ship will be for consumption so while potato’s are a good choice on earth in reality growing potato’s on distant planets pose more question than answers.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Human waste products I can understand. But how many humans would you need to mulch to get enough blood for a building project? That’s one of the main fluids we usually want to stay inside our bodies.
squid_slime@lemm.ee 5 months ago
We can donate so much a month so a haul to Mars would take years. Also these expedition may get larger with crew capacity.
Its early days yet and this is just one method the will be a dozen more by the time we actually start traversing distant planets.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 months ago
if for some reason you have overproduction (plague?) nice to know you can make decent bricks out of the food tho
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You don’t want to know the third thing they tried.
Remotedeck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
It’s piss, no joke
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Well of course. Without potatoes they’re just trying to get stone from some blood.
danc4498@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Potatoes, what can’t they do?
frigidaphelion@lemmy.world 5 months ago
More specifically, what else are they good at that is typically a duty relegated to human blood?
danc4498@lemmy.world 5 months ago
On the weekends my blood has a good percentage of potato in it. Though I don’t think that’s as good as potato free blood.
callouscomic@lemm.ee 5 months ago
This feels like it’s part of a Hideo Kojima game.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
He codes real-time potato growing into the game.
mo_lave@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Blood for the Blood God. Skulls for the Skull Throne.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 5 months ago
suuure bricks. cool cool cool. Did I miss the meeting where we resolved the “not able to breathe on Mars” problem?
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If we can’t figure out how to build stores and factories on Mars, what’s even the point of going?
pinkystew@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Apartments! Rent slaves!! Real estate ARRGHHGHGFHJ is literally a horrible feudal lord forcing people to spend their entire lives working and dies comfortably in his bed smiling surrounded by his family at 95 after a life of unprecedented luxury suffering no consequences for his immortal behavior ever
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 5 months ago
So where are they making these bricks? In space? Why do you need bricks… In space?
It would take effort and time, but surely there are far more efficient ways to make bricks on like Mars considering the vast amount of water that’s been discovered.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 5 months ago
In case of space big bad wolves. Duh.
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s so obvious
kernelle@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Firstly, this is for creating concrete on mars, where resources are very scarce and making regular concrete is not viable. Secondly, to survive martian conditions, we need to build bases, a lot of very sturdy, structurally sound bases. And lastly, before the potato based concrete, blood was genuinely the most viable solution, being an easily renewable resource. IIRC the martian concrete is now magnitudes better than regular concrete.
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
You’d think that, but believe it or not: blood or potatoes.
…
So the three little astronauts go into the Martian house of blood, and the big bad says “L̶̛̲̗͕̞̍e̸̢̛̼̦͔͋̚͝͝t̸̩͎̺̙̗̙̃ ̶̝̖̣̃̌̚ḿ̵̡̻͆͘ę̸̛́̀̌ ̶̡̙̩͆͂ͅi̷̢͙̓̈́͛͂ń̴̬̩͔̳̱”
lauha@lemmy.one 5 months ago
Yes, bit what about in space?
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s the part I don’t understand, what are you going to do with bricks in space???
HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Which of the two options did they think of first? I want a recording of that meeting.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Why, sausage, of course.
2ugly2live@lemmy.world 5 months ago
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Guess it’s leaches and blood letting again.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 months ago
What if you mixed the blood with potatoes?
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
An Irish is born
Soup@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Probably funny to a younger Irishman but also remember that the Irish grew plenty of food but it was the English who took it away from them despite the fact that potatoes, one of the few things they were left with to eat, were experiencing a blight. The joke/story is often portrayed as the Irish learning aboit potatoes from the Americas and going all-in like the entire culture just went feral for the things and had a monocrop but that wasn’t at all what happened. It wasn’t about whether or not they liked potatoes and more a matter of what the English would even let them eat after stealing all their food.
I wasn’t making a lot of Irish potatoe jokes before but I straight up stopped after learning that. The English did some pretty fucked up things in Ireland.
philthi@lemmy.world 5 months ago
As a person who grew up in Ireland since I was 5: this is funny to me
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m Irish, I hereby condone this joke. You are free to go, sir.
Venator@lemmy.nz 5 months ago
Probably both…