Gets interesting when you start to wonder why a coconut and human blood have the same concentration of electrolytes.
deez nutz save lives
Submitted 2 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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mech@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Or why they both scream when you crack them open to get at the yummy liquid inside
Kn1ghtDigital@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
We are all coconuts. Someone tell the crab people!
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Way too much potassium too. It’s like d5w with potassium and mag. Potentially quite deadly over the long term.
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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
ameancow@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
clucose@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
This machines is fueled by Hamburgers and greased by it’s fat.
Greddan@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Now put the lime in the coconut
Clusterfck@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
Please, no shaking the trauma victims.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
I’m allergic to coconut so I’m pretty sure this would feel similar to me.
reddfugee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Now put the *line in the coconut
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
This also works for hangover recovery.
Coconut water is awesome!
ebolapie@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You can actually just drink it if you’re hungry over in most cases.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks 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!
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
They’re actually perfect because they double up as cannon balls too
ameancow@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And bras for womenfolk stranded on the island.
doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
isn’t this a decades long myth?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Etterra@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
Don’t tell the Jehovah’s Witnesses, they’ll use it to further justify their insane anti-blood transfusion beliefs.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Peña Colonic
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Big news for the tropical vampire community
Bosht@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m stuck on where the hell these guys were finding coconuts…???
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
A lot of WWII was fought on Pacific islands.
tektite@slrpnk.net 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
hector@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Iwa Jima, guam, midway, all that pacific ocean area they fought the japanese for.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
… The… Pacific theatre?
Whole bunch of tropical islands?
thethrilloftime69@feddit.online 2 weeks ago
In the Pacific
TheBat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Were coconuts not commonplace in Europe?
thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 2 weeks ago
Coconuts are tropical! This is a temperate zone!
Thunderbird4@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Gilligan-ass field hospital
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I would rather die
ameancow@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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?!
hector@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
But with no transfusions you would be a husk of a man by the end.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I’m allergic to coconut, so I would.
Etterra@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
I mean so would I, but not from coconut juice in my blood.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Jackie Chan did it in Who Am I. Amazing 90s movie.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The driving stunts in that movie are so rad
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Coconut is not a nut.
peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Its also not a coco
Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Similar to how a red panda isn’t a panda or wild rice isn’t rice or… yeah
J92@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah but the hairs ruin your razor, shaving the puncture site.
edinbruh@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
Get them coconut electrolytes
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Where are you going to get a coconut on the Western Front? Some kind of swallow-based logistics system?
jqubed@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A swallow, carrying a coconut?
mastertigurius@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If it’s an African one. Not sure about the European one if we’re talking young coconuts, those things are heavy.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I’m guessing this was somewhere in the pacific
hector@lemmy.today 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Yeah, where were they fighting, the Pacific or something?
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
No man, you gotta upgrade to Big Gulp based logistics.