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