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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Id love to see the math on the amount of iron in a person's blood, because I find it HIGHLY questionable that there's enough iron in only 300 people to make a full iron sword. I'm too lazy to do it myself though.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The numbers roughly check out. Not sure how much one can extract by just draining the blood though.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You're both in luck! Someone else linked to an article that breaks down how it could work in reality: https://startrek.website/comment/9430643

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

All three of you are in luck! Someone made a video attempting to actually forge a sword this way!: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

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Gotta hide it better than that chief

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What an awful video! You should be ashamed! I should be ashamed just for watching it!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

It's a great video. My friends and I have watched it many times