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[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 73 points 2 months ago

Now we're shitposting

[-] mononomi@feddit.nl 66 points 2 months ago
[-] Depress_Mode@lemmy.world 50 points 2 months ago

In his 1953 autobiography, Danish explorer Peter Freuchen claimed that in 1926, he became trapped in a blizzard while running a dog team and was forced to take shelter under his sled for 30 hours while snow built up and froze around him. When he tried to emerge, he found he was entombed in ice and unable to break free with his hands alone. Thinking quickly, he took a shit right there, shaped the turd into a chisel, and allowed it to freeze solid. He then claims he was able to use his newly made tool to chip his way free and make it back to camp. Peter was the only witness to his supposed escape. The study mentions it's based on an Inuit ethnographic account, however. Maybe Peter, having spent much time in the Arctic with Inuit peoples simply took the story for himself. With the runners of the study finding that they were unable to replicate such a technique, it lends credibility to the claim that story may have been fabricated.

[-] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago

With the runners of the study finding that they were unable to replicate such a technique, it lends credibility to the claim that story may have been fabricated.

ah, but did they eat what he ate beforehand?

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 months ago

Bro ate copper, tin, and a smelting kit

Minecraft inventory crafting style

[-] nicknonya 2 points 2 months ago
[-] Depress_Mode@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

I actually wondered the same thing while I was writing lol. Further research is clearly warranted ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ”ฌ๐Ÿ”ฌ

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 points 2 months ago

Bro thought an inuit joke was real.

[-] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 23 points 2 months ago

Because sometimes you just have to find out.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 14 points 2 months ago

Sometimes you just got to know.

[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 48 points 2 months ago

In conclusion, the results support the hypothesis that fecal knives are usually shitty knives

-- the paper, probably

[-] subignition@fedia.io 48 points 2 months ago

This is not the poop knife I was expecting

[-] veroxii@aussie.zone 8 points 2 months ago

Scissors are more practical in any case.

[-] Digital_man@lemmy.one 32 points 2 months ago
[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

I should rewatch Mythbusters.

[-] Alpha71@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago
[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Ooh... what's the catch?

[-] yamanii@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I would watch videos fact checking these knives, I think I saw a chocolate knife or cardboard knife

[-] 10_0@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago
[-] enbiousenvy 21 points 2 months ago

I have accidentally picked up a dried cat turd when younger, thinking it was rock. It was a bit fragile, easily break into dust. I realized it because it was not as heavy as an actual rock of the same size.

Based on that, my unscientific conclusion is that even if it's frozen, it'll be hard to shape and easily breaks because it behaves more like dust/sand instead of cream.

[-] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

The alleged knife would be frozen, not dried. It would be much like the ice he was enclosed in

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Use urine instead. Make an ice pee-k.

[-] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 1 points 2 months ago

I make it into a iurine-ice-bullet.. untraceable

[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 months ago
[-] RobinSohn@feddit.org 18 points 2 months ago

That hypthesis turned out to be shit.

[-] degen@midwest.social 17 points 2 months ago

Gonna need a meta-analysis to be sure

[-] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Appropriate content for the publisher

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago

I like that it took 7 researchers to do this study. It shows commitment to the cause.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 12 points 2 months ago

I don't think that this is the type of project you can go in "half-assed." You need both cheeks for this.

[-] veroxii@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago

Might as well get paid grant money for poop time.

[-] 10_0@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago

Funny how you just know this will come up as a defense in a trial somewhere somehow

[-] daqu@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago
[-] BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago

Or too much. Exactly my thought

[-] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

Fiber maybe but no one is eating actual fur.

[-] Dave2 4 points 2 months ago

I never thought I would say this but this time science is wrong

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 points 2 months ago
[-] Dave2 8 points 2 months ago

It has to work... It has to...

[-] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 3 points 2 months ago
this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2024
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