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SponConSerdTent t1_jdf6bh9 wrote

Ah, the classic "The only things I know about America are things I read in curated internet feeds" delusion.

Hundreds of millions of people, living close to a trillion hours of life every year.

Don't let curated feeds turn you into a complete idiot.

One story of one dumbass, or even 10,000 stories about 10,000 dumbasses is a completely worthless way to analyze anything. You'll only move further from the truth as you slurp down more of the curated craziness.

You're living proof that your country has dumb people in it too.

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michal_hanu_la t1_jdf62j0 wrote

I'm not your buddy and you keep forgetting the dose.

Chocolate fits that description, even though we know it contains very small amounts of lead. Mostly any chocolate, the darker, the more.

You can stop eating chocolate, of course, but it does not seem to cause any trouble that we would actually know of.

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WimpyLimpet t1_jdf4u9d wrote

>Potato starch wasn't the first medium that University of Manchester scientists tested in their search for ISRU building supplies. In a previous study, the same team explored the possibility of using human blood and urine as binding agents for their extraterrestrial concrete. The blood and urine of astronauts, after all, are renewable resources, and they're available wherever an astronaut's mission might take them.

>Concrete from the researchers' trials using blood and urine also produced strengths above traditional mixtures, measuring around 40 MPa. These bricks' construction, however, would require that astronauts repeatedly drain their own bodily fluids, which was viewed as a drawback.

>Aled Roberts, the lead researcher for the StarCrete project and research fellow for the Future Biomanufacturing Research Hub at the University of Manchester, concedes that using potato flakes is preferable to blood and pee.

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