Iron

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• KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  ok, but humans also regenerate blood, very slowly but it does happen. So theoretically, you could contract your family members to draw blood to be used to make a longsword out of your family’s bloodline. And have it become an heirloom.

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  • daltotron@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    imagine, over the centuries of blood donation, the sword slowly grows from a knife, into an absolutely huge dragonslayer behemoth

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  • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is it slowly? I thought you replaced all the blood from a blood donation within a day or two

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• Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Listen there’s definitely enough carbon in the body to boost that into a steel sword.

  If we can make diamonds out of corpses, we can make steel.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hold up… Wouldn’t a diamond sword be better than a steel one?

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    • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Too brittle, I think.

      For ceremony, though, perfect!

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    • nyctre@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In Minecraft, sure.

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  • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just toss your enemies into the recycler that extracts material for the replicator and replicate yourself a sword.

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• Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was curious how long it would take to make a sword out of your own blood. If my math was correct(it probably isn’t lol) the human body contains around 4.7 to 5.5 liters. And then you can apparently donate like 470 millileters every 8 weeks.

  So take 4.7(assuming the smallest people) X 300 = 1410 L total blood

  1410(total needed) / 0.47(donation amount) = 3000 donations X 8 weeks = 24,000 / 52 = 461.54 years

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    New mythology curse just dropped.

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  • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And then you can apparently donate like 470 millileters every 8 weeks.

    Safely, you could probably speed it up a bit if you have a higher risk tolerance.

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• Snowyday@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• cosmicrookie@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My very rough calculations using 85kg as an average adult weight, results in 153gr of iron

  My problem is, that i dont have any expectations as to how heavy a longsword is but i’d assume it to be a lot heavier!

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  • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Males of average height have about 4 grams of iron in their body, females about 3.5 grams; children will usually have 3 grams or less

    300 * 3g = 900g.

    300 * 4,5g = 1350g

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longsword

    and weighing approximately 1 to 1.5 kg

    It’s close enough, I’d say. OP’s maths that is.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Experience Bij

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