Gets interesting when you start to wonder why a coconut and human blood have the same concentration of electrolytes.
deez nutz save lives
Submitted 4 days ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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mech@feddit.org 4 days ago
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 4 days ago
Or why they both scream when you crack them open to get at the yummy liquid inside
Kn1ghtDigital@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
We are all coconuts. Someone tell the crab people!
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 4 days 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 4 days ago
Way too much potassium too. It’s like d5w with potassium and mag. Potentially quite deadly over the long term.
Agent641@lemmy.world 3 days 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 3 days 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 3 days ago
This machines is fueled by Hamburgers and greased by it’s fat.
Greddan@feddit.org 4 days ago
Now put the lime in the coconut
Clusterfck@lemmy.sdf.org 4 days ago
Please, no shaking the trauma victims.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days 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 3 days ago
I’m allergic to coconut so I’m pretty sure this would feel similar to me.
reddfugee@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Now put the *line in the coconut
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
isn’t this a decades long myth?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 days ago
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
This also works for hangover recovery.
Coconut water is awesome!
ebolapie@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You can actually just drink it if you’re hungry over in most cases.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days 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!
Etterra@discuss.online 3 days ago
Don’t tell the Jehovah’s Witnesses, they’ll use it to further justify their insane anti-blood transfusion beliefs.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
They’re actually perfect because they double up as cannon balls too
ameancow@lemmy.world 3 days ago
And bras for womenfolk stranded on the island.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 days ago
Peña Colonic
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 4 days ago
Big news for the tropical vampire community
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I would rather die
ameancow@lemmy.world 3 days 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 3 days 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 3 days ago
But with no transfusions you would be a husk of a man by the end.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
I’m allergic to coconut, so I would.
Etterra@discuss.online 3 days ago
I mean so would I, but not from coconut juice in my blood.
Bosht@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’m stuck on where the hell these guys were finding coconuts…???
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
A lot of WWII was fought on Pacific islands.
tektite@slrpnk.net 4 days 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 4 days ago
Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
hector@lemmy.today 3 days ago
Iwa Jima, guam, midway, all that pacific ocean area they fought the japanese for.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
… The… Pacific theatre?
Whole bunch of tropical islands?
TheBat@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Were coconuts not commonplace in Europe?
thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 3 days ago
Coconuts are tropical! This is a temperate zone!
Thunderbird4@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Gilligan-ass field hospital
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Jackie Chan did it in Who Am I. Amazing 90s movie.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The driving stunts in that movie are so rad
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Coconut is not a nut.
peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Its also not a coco
Fedizen@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Similar to how a red panda isn’t a panda or wild rice isn’t rice or… yeah
J92@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah but the hairs ruin your razor, shaving the puncture site.
edinbruh@feddit.it 3 days ago
Get them coconut electrolytes
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Where are you going to get a coconut on the Western Front? Some kind of swallow-based logistics system?
jqubed@lemmy.world 4 days ago
A swallow, carrying a coconut?
mastertigurius@lemmy.world 4 days 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 4 days ago
I’m guessing this was somewhere in the pacific
hector@lemmy.today 3 days 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 3 days ago
Yeah, where were they fighting, the Pacific or something?
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
No man, you gotta upgrade to Big Gulp based logistics.