Knives made of frozen human poop don't work - breaking new science
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Knives made of frozen human poop don't work - breaking new science
Hey, the Ig Nobles are on again!!
True Science at it's most wackiest
- Another Ig Nobel prize this year has been won by researchers who made knives out of frozen human poop.
They wanted to test a long-standing and widely cited anthropological account of an old Indigenous Inuit man, who found himself on the Arctic ice without tools so he made a knife out of his own frozen faeces.
Their study showed the knives were pretty useless.
"Since publication, this story has been told and retold in documentaries, books, and across internet websites and message boards," the researchers wrote in their study.
"While much research has shown foragers to be technologically resourceful, innovative, and savvy, we suggest that this ethnographic account should no longer be used to support that narrative."
- Giving an alligator the 'mickey mouse' effect with helium gas
Another Ig Nobel winner was a team that got an alligator to inhale helium gas — actually a mix of helium and oxygen called 'heliox' — to see what effect it had on its growl.
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https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09 ... el-prizes/
True Science at it's most wackiest
- Another Ig Nobel prize this year has been won by researchers who made knives out of frozen human poop.
They wanted to test a long-standing and widely cited anthropological account of an old Indigenous Inuit man, who found himself on the Arctic ice without tools so he made a knife out of his own frozen faeces.
Their study showed the knives were pretty useless.
"Since publication, this story has been told and retold in documentaries, books, and across internet websites and message boards," the researchers wrote in their study.
"While much research has shown foragers to be technologically resourceful, innovative, and savvy, we suggest that this ethnographic account should no longer be used to support that narrative."
- Giving an alligator the 'mickey mouse' effect with helium gas
Another Ig Nobel winner was a team that got an alligator to inhale helium gas — actually a mix of helium and oxygen called 'heliox' — to see what effect it had on its growl.
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https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/09 ... el-prizes/
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Re: Knives made of frozen human poop don't work - breaking new science
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Re: Knives made of frozen human poop don't work - breaking new science
A much needed answer to an unasked question.
Re: Knives made of frozen human poop don't work - breaking new science
I remember reading a story about someone in Russia who was murdered, the inquest saying it was by a long sharp object jammed into his ear and into the brain, but they didnt find the weapon, only a puddle of water. Cant remember if it was a news story or fiction. Either way, the perfect crime - no weapon, no fingerprints....
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Re: Knives made of frozen human poop don't work - breaking new science
A Roald Dhal story has a wife killing her husband with a large frozen joint of beef. She put it in the oven cooked it then phoned the police and fed them some while they investigated.
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Re: Knives made of frozen human poop don't work - breaking new science
I've read a work of fiction, set in Scotland, in which the antihero or villain is a contract killer who offs some pleb using a crossbow bolt made from frozen waterlagrange wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 3:04 pm I remember reading a story about someone in Russia who was murdered, the inquest saying it was by a long sharp object jammed into his ear and into the brain, but they didnt find the weapon, only a puddle of water. Cant remember if it was a news story or fiction. Either way, the perfect crime - no weapon, no fingerprints....
I'm also sure that Mythbusters or some other show debunked the idea that such a weapon is viable IRL.
Re: Knives made of frozen human poop don't work - breaking new science
Police don’t need to find a murder weapon to convict, or even a body, so all your stories and anecdotes are superfluous.
Don’t listen to Chinese whispers.
Re: Knives made of frozen human poop don't work - breaking new science
“Lamb to the Slaughter”tightenupvolume1 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 3:23 pm A Roald Dhal story has a wife killing her husband with a large frozen joint of beef. She put it in the oven cooked it then phoned the police and fed them some while they investigated.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_to_the_Slaughter
Full story:
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lamb.html
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