I am in the stardust camp. PhysicsCentral agrees: The human body is about 60% water and hydrogen only accounts for 11% of that water mass. Even though water consists of two hydrogen atoms for every oxygen, hydrogen has much less mass. We can conclude that 93% of the mass in our body is stardust.
@algae1221 Not sure, but in a related topic:
My friend’s daughter recently asked how much blood you would need to make a sword from the extracted iron, and we figured assuming around 4 grams of iron per person, you’d need 250 people’s worth of blood to make a 1 kg ingot, which is a little bit lighter than an average short sword
@algae1221@MrPrincess And that is only if you efficiently extract every red blood cell from each corpse. Dispatching them with a sword will lower your efficient iron collection efforts greatly. I’d allow a 40-100 person overage to make sure. And use lots of plastic sheeting.
We’re also 80% water. Thus humans are just moist meatbags.
@mike808 According to some aliens, we are ugly giant bags of mostly water.
@mike808
@cengland0 I see we were both thinking the same thing.
@yakkoTDI it was a close one. I beat you with this reference by only a minute.
@mike808 We’re closer to 60% water overall. So still moist but not not that moist
I am in the stardust camp. PhysicsCentral agrees: The human body is about 60% water and hydrogen only accounts for 11% of that water mass. Even though water consists of two hydrogen atoms for every oxygen, hydrogen has much less mass. We can conclude that 93% of the mass in our body is stardust.
@steeltoesenator so stardust looks like glitter. So we are glitter?
@steeltoesenator @tinamarie1974 Diamonds glitter too… That is why I am sure you have a
/image sparkle in your eye.
@steeltoesenator
Metals, like Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Calcium, etc.
(Astrophysicists refer to any element other than Hydrogen and Helium as “metals.”)
@PocketBrain @steeltoesenator If Astrophysicists jumped off a cliff would you do it too? (My mom would say.
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So a 200 pound person would contain 36 pounds of carbon. How big of a diamond would that make? Asking for a friend.
@algae1221 Not sure, but in a related topic:
My friend’s daughter recently asked how much blood you would need to make a sword from the extracted iron, and we figured assuming around 4 grams of iron per person, you’d need 250 people’s worth of blood to make a 1 kg ingot, which is a little bit lighter than an average short sword
@algae1221 @MrPrincess And that is only if you efficiently extract every red blood cell from each corpse. Dispatching them with a sword will lower your efficient iron collection efforts greatly. I’d allow a 40-100 person overage to make sure. And use lots of plastic sheeting.
@algae1221
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/cremation-ashes-diamonds-scam-fake
@algae1221 @crow @MrPrincess Sounds a lot easier to get Magneto to do it.
@algae1221 @crow @MrPrincess you are doing it wrong. Corpses are so inefficient. And the disposal… You are going to get noticed
/image vampire movie blood farm
@algae1221 @crow @MrPrincess
Also two iron ingots per sword. Yes you need some leather but one body is less noticeable than 500.
https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Iron_Sword_(Skyrim)#Smithing
Never mind the upgrades
Humans are made up of some of the same ingredients that are in horse dewormer, fish-tank cleaner, and yoga mats…