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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 10 months ago

Poop Knife

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  • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.ee
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    Now we’re shitposting

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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    In conclusion, the results support the hypothesis that fecal knives are usually shitty knives

    – the paper, probably

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    This is not the poop knife I was expecting

    • where_am_i@sh.itjust.works
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      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!

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      Scissors are more practical in any case.

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    totally busted

    • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
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      I should rewatch Mythbusters.

      • Alpha71@lemmy.world
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        They’re on YouTube.

        • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
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          Ooh… what’s the catch?

          • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            Ads and tracking, same as always.

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

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      deleted by creator

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆@yiffit.net
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    Use urine instead. Make an ice pee-k.

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    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.

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

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    That hypthesis turned out to be shit.

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    Davis states that the original source of the tale was Olayuk Narqitarvik. It was allegedly Olayuk’s grandfather in the 1950s who refused to go to the settlements and thus fashioned a knife from his own feces to facilitate his escape by skinning and disarticulating a dog. Davis has admitted that the story could be “apocryphal”, and that initially he thought the Inuit who told him this story was “pulling his leg”.

    That’s a long payoff for a practical joke, but totally worth it.

    Also, unsurprisingly, they won the 2020 Ig Nobel Prize in Materials Science (lol) for this one (video of the ceremony, Ig Nobel “lecture” from the lead author (also the primary pooper))

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    Gonna need a meta-analysis to be sure

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    Appropriate content for the publisher

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

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      I don’t think that this is the type of project you can go in “half-assed.” You need both cheeks for this.

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      Might as well get paid grant money for poop time.

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    deleted by creator

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    They should try again using petrified coprolite…

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    But smearing human feces on sharpened stakes makes them super effective against invaders.

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