There are several stories of people in the Arctic using their own frozen poop and turning it into tools. How the urban legends go : the extreme cold turns poop into a hard surface for…
Either as a hammer to break through ice has that has trapped them in their shelter, or one explorer shaped his poop into a knife to butcher a sled dog for much needed food so he wouldn’t starve.
That’s not the crazy thing… The crazy thing is there has been not one, but two serious scientific studies into whether poop can be used as a knife if shaped into a blade and frozen hard down to arctic temperatures.
The answer btw is, no. When scientists tried cutting animal carcasses with poop knives, all they accomplished was leaving brown streaks across the carcasses.
@OnionSoup Lol… I guess it’s in the nature of scientists to disprove or confirm outlandish theories, but I do wonder how many millions of government funding those experiments might have cost? Someone with even a rudimentary understanding of the density of poop vs flesh would understand it couldn’t hold any kind of edge, no matter how frozen. Even if the meat was at the easiest to cut temperature, a frozen poop knife would start melting as soon as it touched the surface.
A poopsicle however, might stand a chance of penetrating if it started high enough, wet enough, was sufficiently frozen and the victim stood directly underneath looking straight up at the tip, but one made out of pure liquid would probably be more effective. I just may need to apply for a multi-billion dollar government grant to test that out for our national scientific advancement!
Speaking of knives.
There are several stories of people in the Arctic using their own frozen poop and turning it into tools. How the urban legends go : the extreme cold turns poop into a hard surface for…
Either as a hammer to break through ice has that has trapped them in their shelter, or one explorer shaped his poop into a knife to butcher a sled dog for much needed food so he wouldn’t starve.
That’s not the crazy thing… The crazy thing is there has been not one, but two serious scientific studies into whether poop can be used as a knife if shaped into a blade and frozen hard down to arctic temperatures.
The answer btw is, no. When scientists tried cutting animal carcasses with poop knives, all they accomplished was leaving brown streaks across the carcasses.
@OnionSoup Lol… I guess it’s in the nature of scientists to disprove or confirm outlandish theories, but I do wonder how many millions of government funding those experiments might have cost? Someone with even a rudimentary understanding of the density of poop vs flesh would understand it couldn’t hold any kind of edge, no matter how frozen. Even if the meat was at the easiest to cut temperature, a frozen poop knife would start melting as soon as it touched the surface.
A poopsicle however, might stand a chance of penetrating if it started high enough, wet enough, was sufficiently frozen and the victim stood directly underneath looking straight up at the tip, but one made out of pure liquid would probably be more effective. I just may need to apply for a multi-billion dollar government grant to test that out for our national scientific advancement!
The poopy assassin