Poop Knife

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• mononomi@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The article actually exists

  But why does it

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  • Depress_Mode@lemmy.world ⁨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.

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bro thought an inuit joke was real.

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  • NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because sometimes you just have to find out.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sometimes you just got to know.

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• rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Now we’re shitposting

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• circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

  – the paper, probably

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• Digital_man@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  totally busted

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  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I should rewatch Mythbusters.

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    • Alpha71@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’re on YouTube.

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  • yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • 10_0@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nutted

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• enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨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.

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  • psud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Use pee instead. Make an ice pee-k.

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  • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Image

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• AernaLingus@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Davis states that the original source of the tale was Olayuk Narqitarvik. It was allegedly Olayuk’s grandfather in the 1950s who refused to go to the settlements and thus fashioned a knife from his own feces to facilitate his escape by skinning and disarticulating a dog. Davis has admitted that the story could be “apocryphal”, and that initially he thought the Inuit who told him this story was “pulling his leg”.

  That’s a long payoff for a practical joke, but totally worth it.

  Also, unsurprisingly, they won the 2020 Ig Nobel Prize in Materials Science (lol) for this one (video of the ceremony, Ig Nobel “lecture” from the authors)

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• degen@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Gonna need a meta-analysis to be sure

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• BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Appropriate content for the publisher

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• Gork@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨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.

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• asg101@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But smearing human feces on sharpened stakes makes them super effective against invaders.

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• 10_0@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• daqu@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not enough fibre/fur

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  • BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or too much. Exactly my thought

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  • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fiber maybe but no one is eating actual fur.

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• Dave2@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Citations please.

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• RobotZap10000@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  L-sevier

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