Where are you going to get a coconut on the Western Front? Some kind of swallow-based logistics system?
deez nutz save lives
Submitted 19 hours ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
jqubed@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
A swallow, carrying a coconut?
mastertigurius@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
If it’s an African one. Not sure about the European one if we’re talking young coconuts, those things are heavy.
hector@lemmy.today 5 hours ago
A swallow couldn’t carry a coconut from the tropics, they don’t have the mass and thrust of flying necessary to lift and carry one that far.
teslekova@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Yeah, where were they fighting, the Pacific or something?
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
I’m guessing this was somewhere in the pacific
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
No man, you gotta upgrade to Big Gulp based logistics.
Etterra@discuss.online 5 hours ago
Don’t tell the Jehovah’s Witnesses, they’ll use it to further justify their insane anti-blood transfusion beliefs.
mech@feddit.org 16 hours ago
Gets interesting when you start to wonder why a coconut and human blood have the same concentration of electrolytes.
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 16 hours ago
Or why they both scream when you crack them open to get at the yummy liquid inside
Kn1ghtDigital@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
We are all coconuts. Someone tell the crab people!
ameancow@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
The short answer is most of life on Earth shares some basic levels of chemistry. That doesn’t mean it’s a perfect fit though, just that human bodies are resilient enough to make due with terrible substitutes at times.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
They don’t, not enough sodium for one thing. I guess you first use the clean juice to make them stop dying long enough so you can stitch what’s left of them together, and if they wake up you could tuck a salt pill under their tongue.
Agent641@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Yeah it’s actually a really shitty substitute for blood, it’s just slightly less shitty than dying. It was all about keeping the blood pressure high enough so that what little blood you had would work. Coconut water was one of the only things that could do that without also killing you. It’s still a very bad day
roguetrick@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Way too much potassium too. It’s like d5w with potassium and mag. Potentially quite deadly over the long term.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
This also works for hangover recovery.
Coconut water is awesome!
ebolapie@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
You can actually just drink it if you’re hungry over in most cases.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
Oh dear.
Yes, that is what I meant, but … that I now realize I should have specified.
Yes, you don’t need to mainline the coconut water for it to be good for you lol!
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Coconut is not a nut.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
They’re actually perfect because they double up as cannon balls too
ameancow@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
And bras for womenfolk stranded on the island.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I would rather die
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
I’m allergic to coconut, so I would.
hector@lemmy.today 5 hours ago
But with no transfusions you would be a husk of a man by the end.
ameancow@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
An unusual reaction to the prospect of having your life saved, but far easier to arrange than other solutions I guess.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
There is no greater disappointment for me than biting into something without suspecting a thing, and my taste buds then suddenly being assaulted by the vileness dubbed “coconut flavor”.
In case my remains are consumed by animals or plants, I can’t put them through something I hate so much. I mean, do we even know how long this will make you taste like coconut?!
Etterra@discuss.online 5 hours ago
I mean so would I, but not from coconut juice in my blood.
Greddan@feddit.org 18 hours ago
Now put the lime in the coconut
Clusterfck@lemmy.sdf.org 18 hours ago
Please, no shaking the trauma victims.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
… Lime juice through an IV is probably going to be extremely painful to endure, and could just kill you.
For starters: “My blood is on fire” is roughly what that would feel like, lime juice is extremely acidic.
Beyond that: It isn’t sterile.
So you’re literally mainlining bacterial infections.
Extremely bad idea, its such a bad idea that it would basically constitute a horrific form of torture/execution.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 hours ago
I’m allergic to coconut so I’m pretty sure this would feel similar to me.
reddfugee@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Now put the *line in the coconut
Kolanaki@pawb.social 15 hours ago
Peña Colonic
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 15 hours ago
Big news for the tropical vampire community
J92@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Yeah but the hairs ruin your razor, shaving the puncture site.
Bosht@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I’m stuck on where the hell these guys were finding coconuts…???
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
A lot of WWII was fought on Pacific islands.
tektite@slrpnk.net 16 hours ago
The swallow may fly south with the sun, or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land?
SacralPlexus@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
hector@lemmy.today 5 hours ago
Iwa Jima, guam, midway, all that pacific ocean area they fought the japanese for.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
… The… Pacific theatre?
Whole bunch of tropical islands?
thethrilloftime69@feddit.online 15 hours ago
In the Pacific
TheBat@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Were coconuts not commonplace in Europe?
thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 10 hours ago
Coconuts are tropical! This is a temperate zone!
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Jackie Chan did it in Who Am I. Amazing 90s movie.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
The driving stunts in that movie are so rad
Thunderbird4@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Gilligan-ass field hospital
edinbruh@feddit.it 10 hours ago
Get them coconut electrolytes
doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
isn’t this a decades long myth?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 hours ago
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10674546/