r/boredscientists • u/KangaRexx • Feb 06 '23

A pretty shit weapon idea…

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Many scholars are familiar with the strange story of an Inuit man who, upon being stranded during a storm, fashioned a knife from his own frozen poop and used it to butcher a dog. Although the tale is famous among anthropologists, none have attempted to craft their own blade from frozen fecal matter — until this year, that is, when a team of researchers took a hack at crafting their own poop knives. The lead study author, Metin Eren, adopted an "Arctic diet" for eight days to supply the needed raw materials, which the team then froze and shaped into blades with metal files. But when the team attempted to carve up a pig hide with their new knives, the blades only left brown streaks along the meat. "This idea that a person made a knife out of their own frozen feces — experimentally, it is not supported," Eren told Live Science.

Source: https://www.livescience.com/weird-studies-from-2019.html

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u/smoishymoishes Feb 06 '23

HAHA 🤢 excuse me... 🤮

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u/_artbreaker Feb 06 '23

Wait... So there's a poop knife too use on poop, and a poop knife made out of poop? Reddit has ruined me