“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 3 days ago by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to [deleted]
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Snapz@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Blyfh@lemmy.world 3 days ago
There called rocket scientists for a reason, not rock scientists.
WagnasT@lemmy.world 3 days ago
is this spudnik?
franklin@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Pokemon de terra
Burninator05@lemmy.world 3 days 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 3 days ago
This closes off a few bad endings for humanity.
synae@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
Think again, scientists are often ignored
Sabata11792@ani.social 3 days ago
As long as potatoes have a higher profit margin than blood, the real mosnsters will choose potatoes.
squid_slime@lemm.ee 3 days 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 3 days 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 3 days ago
You don’t want to know the third thing they tried.
Remotedeck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
It’s piss, no joke
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Well of course. Without potatoes they’re just trying to get stone from some blood.
danc4498@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Potatoes, what can’t they do?
frigidaphelion@lemmy.world 3 days ago
More specifically, what else are they good at that is typically a duty relegated to human blood?
danc4498@lemmy.world 3 days 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.
mo_lave@reddthat.com 3 days ago
Blood for the Blood God. Skulls for the Skull Throne.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 3 days 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 3 days 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 3 days 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
callouscomic@lemm.ee 3 days ago
This feels like it’s part of a Hideo Kojima game.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 days ago
He codes real-time potato growing into the game.
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 3 days 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 3 days ago
In case of space big bad wolves. Duh.
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s so obvious
kernelle@lemmy.world 3 days 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 3 days 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 3 days ago
Yes, bit what about in space?
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That’s the part I don’t understand, what are you going to do with bricks in space???
HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Which of the two options did they think of first? I want a recording of that meeting.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Why, sausage, of course.
2ugly2live@lemmy.world 3 days ago
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Guess it’s leaches and blood letting again.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 days ago
What if you mixed the blood with potatoes?
SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
An Irish is born
Soup@lemmy.world 3 days 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 3 days ago
As a person who grew up in Ireland since I was 5: this is funny to me
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’m Irish, I hereby condone this joke. You are free to go, sir.
Venator@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
Probably both…