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[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 74 points 2 months ago

Now we're shitposting

[–] mononomi@feddit.nl 69 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] Depress_Mode@lemmy.world 50 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

ah, but did they eat what he ate beforehand?

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Bro ate copper, tin, and a smelting kit

Minecraft inventory crafting style

[–] Depress_Mode@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I actually wondered the same thing while I was writing lol. Further research is clearly warranted 🧑‍🔬🔬

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

How would you put 'person who tested various diets and eating habits for the best possible shit to freeze and pick through ice with' on a resume?

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 4 points 2 months ago
[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 12 points 2 months ago

Bro thought an inuit joke was real.

[–] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 24 points 2 months ago

Because sometimes you just have to find out.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 16 points 2 months ago

Sometimes you just got to know.

[–] subignition@fedia.io 50 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This is not the poop knife I was expecting

[–] where_am_i@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago

Years go by but the internet legend lives on.

Dunno about that science article, but I bought a poop knife a while ago and it works great!

[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 8 points 2 months ago

Scissors are more practical in any case.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 49 points 2 months ago

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

-- the paper, probably

[–] Digital_man@lemmy.one 34 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I should rewatch Mythbusters.

[–] Alpha71@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Ads and tracking, same as always.

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Use urine instead. Make an ice pee-k.

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 1 points 2 months ago

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

[–] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

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

[–] RobinSohn@feddit.org 19 points 2 months ago

That hypthesis turned out to be shit.

[–] degen@midwest.social 18 points 2 months ago

Gonna need a meta-analysis to be sure

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 months ago
[–] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Appropriate content for the publisher

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 12 points 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.

[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago

Might as well get paid grant money for poop time.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

They should try again using petrified coprolite..

[–] daqu@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

Fiber maybe but no one is eating actual fur.

[–] BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago

Or too much. Exactly my thought

[–] Dave2@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Dave2@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 months ago

It has to work... It has to...

[–] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 3 points 2 months ago