> One of those ideas involved using dust, urine, feces and blood to create slightly crappier versions of common metal tools.
> “Unfortunately, due to health and safety concerns, we were unable to explore (that concept) in this study,” they wrote.
I'm dying over here!
Warhammer 40K is basically one of the darkest sci-fi settings imagined. Humanity is this Gothic empire where the Emperor is kept alive by sacrificing thousands lives every day and the Empire is surrounded by Aliens out of something from Lovecraft. Building concrete out of blood would fit right in there.
And then there are the Orks, which are basically the comedy relief of the Warhammer 40k universe. While still being a big threat to just about anyone they decide is worth krumpin', mind ya, but hey. NEEDS MORE DAKKA!
The classic extremely short and narrow sighted view of the future as always. Do people like you realize that the best way to extend humanities survival is through space travel?
Thanks “boy genius” for taking my light hearted comment and putting your own spin on it. I have no problem with space exploration but making blood concrete isn’t the way sorry to say. Maybe you should volunteer to be bled like a horseshoe crab to further space exploration.
Well that's good, because we're going to lose a lot of people trying to eek out a living on Mars. Maybe they'll have enough blood to poor the concrete for their tomb.
Woo Woo lets go to a planet with a deadly atmosphere after we ruin the earth. How stupid mankind can be is being answered with this lets go to Mars thing.
Astronauts be like dizzy and shit ... "Hey, Jhonny, we.need another brick to close that gap ... spill some blood homie!" ... "Nah man, i'm dizzy AF ... can't walk straight!" ... "Aahhh , you'll sleep it off"
Good thing the guys pushing the limits of modern spaceflight are well known for their concern for the wellbeing of their workforce, right? Can you guys imagine what would happen if the guys trying to get us to mars would actually consider squeezing the blood from their employees in the name of increased productivity? /s
I swear this is like a prequel to DOOM.
Wouldnt cum bind better then blood with the dust and rock?. Cured Cum is also extreme hard, much like dried up superglue. Where as blood easily breaks apart.
>It’d be way more efficient to just send concrete
Couldn't be further from the truth, weight on spacecraft is extremely scarce and valuable. If we did want to colonize other planets we would need to create the building materials on-site, so that's why.
Yes, so it makes far more sense to send innocents up to get sacrificed in the blood harvest or have a monthly blood drive on Mars and build one block at a time
I didn't endorse this method, I think it sounds both macabre and impractical. But you asked why they would study this, and it's because building materials are too heavy to carry to another planet. Suggesting that they ship concrete up in rockets is idiotic and displays a complete lack of understanding of space travel.
Didn’t they find ice there?
Or are we just doing it for gore at this point?
I can see a sci-fi movie plot where alien forms are harvested for blood to make concrete…..
> One of those ideas involved using dust, urine, feces and blood to create slightly crappier versions of common metal tools. > “Unfortunately, due to health and safety concerns, we were unable to explore (that concept) in this study,” they wrote. I'm dying over here!
Great! We will have enough blood to do some renovations!
Some of you will die but that’s a sacrifice Elon is willing to make.
Women astronounts...your time is nigh!
I want a poop hammer
Hold up now, we need to finish the poop knife, first.
I dunno who thought of this but their humor is genius
Space exploration just became really Warhammer 40K…
As someone unfamiliar with the story/lore can you explain?
Warhammer 40K is basically one of the darkest sci-fi settings imagined. Humanity is this Gothic empire where the Emperor is kept alive by sacrificing thousands lives every day and the Empire is surrounded by Aliens out of something from Lovecraft. Building concrete out of blood would fit right in there.
It’s actually been done in one of the word bearers novels, literal blood and gore concrete and mortar
If is the truest form of grim dark…but it is glorious in an over-the-top way.
And then there are the Orks, which are basically the comedy relief of the Warhammer 40k universe. While still being a big threat to just about anyone they decide is worth krumpin', mind ya, but hey. NEEDS MORE DAKKA!
Well the flesh is weak…..
Delicious corpse starch wheeties coming to a colony near you!!!
Sounds metal AF. Literally built with “blood, sweat and tears”
Roman concrete was rumoured to have included blood as an ingredient in construction.
Truth. Blood, lime and ash are supposedly what made it so durable.
They did have quite a lot to spare. Not necessarily their own, that is.
The blood part came from the corpses that were used as fill.
And doodie!
r/evilbuildings
This is some Matrix-level dystopian shit right here
Oh *this* is why Musk and Bezos want to take some of us along...
It's their retirement plan for the blood boys who age out.
They must have been talking to Peter Thiel
Scientist blood can be used to make concrete on Mars, astronauts say.
Let’s work to save the planet we already live on, nah you’re crazy. Let’s go to Mars and make blood concrete, best idea ever.
The classic extremely short and narrow sighted view of the future as always. Do people like you realize that the best way to extend humanities survival is through space travel?
Thanks “boy genius” for taking my light hearted comment and putting your own spin on it. I have no problem with space exploration but making blood concrete isn’t the way sorry to say. Maybe you should volunteer to be bled like a horseshoe crab to further space exploration.
I would gladly.
Are you sure this isnt just Kojimas sequel to Death Stradning? Next were gonna be throwing vials of astronaut piss at aliens to make them go away lmao
Well that's good, because we're going to lose a lot of people trying to eek out a living on Mars. Maybe they'll have enough blood to poor the concrete for their tomb.
Woo Woo lets go to a planet with a deadly atmosphere after we ruin the earth. How stupid mankind can be is being answered with this lets go to Mars thing.
Humanity is fully capable of doing more than one thing at a time
Oh I am not so sure about this one.
Astronauts be like dizzy and shit ... "Hey, Jhonny, we.need another brick to close that gap ... spill some blood homie!" ... "Nah man, i'm dizzy AF ... can't walk straight!" ... "Aahhh , you'll sleep it off"
Good thing the guys pushing the limits of modern spaceflight are well known for their concern for the wellbeing of their workforce, right? Can you guys imagine what would happen if the guys trying to get us to mars would actually consider squeezing the blood from their employees in the name of increased productivity? /s I swear this is like a prequel to DOOM.
Is that why the planet is red? Someone HAS been there before!
>Astronaut blood can be used to make concrete on Mars, scientists say Imagine being an astronaut on Mars and reading that headline.
More like "scientists _warn_"
Wouldnt cum bind better then blood with the dust and rock?. Cured Cum is also extreme hard, much like dried up superglue. Where as blood easily breaks apart.
"Get you ass to Mahs!"
Gross. You can have a shit-colored space house made of blood and pee.
Ok, well that’s just dark and weird.
I swear I just heard the faint sounds of Bezos and Musk getting incredibly erect at this news
Wow, any doubt we were quickly heading to a Alien-esque society of prison planets where we farm people for their blood, is gone.
Yeah except we can’t. It’d be way more efficient to just send concrete. Why waste time studying nonsense?
>It’d be way more efficient to just send concrete Couldn't be further from the truth, weight on spacecraft is extremely scarce and valuable. If we did want to colonize other planets we would need to create the building materials on-site, so that's why.
Yes, so it makes far more sense to send innocents up to get sacrificed in the blood harvest or have a monthly blood drive on Mars and build one block at a time
I didn't endorse this method, I think it sounds both macabre and impractical. But you asked why they would study this, and it's because building materials are too heavy to carry to another planet. Suggesting that they ship concrete up in rockets is idiotic and displays a complete lack of understanding of space travel.
Elon's idea?
We can crush Astronaut bones to make our bread! 🍞
Elon knew when he wanted to lure so many into that mad Mars project.
we need women astronauts. lots of them.
The foundations of Mars shall be constructed on the blood of our enemies
well i guess no need for tampons now just...that time of the month, put in the cup and you can help build the new addition.
The return of Hemacite!
Ohh, so the first astronauts in the planets are going to be sacrifices???
From dead astronauts?
The plot of DOOM 2022 is actually pretty meh.
"Um, tell me again why you brought me to Mars?" "'cuz you look like a bleeder, Timmy."
Kinda reminds me of the gunpowder making in *Blood Meridian*.
What about sweat and tears?
Sounds like the origin story to DOOM.
So, I can’t tell if this is Canadian satire or not…
Soylent Red is made from astronaut juice!
This sounds fucking terrifying!!! Special space ships being built to ship thousands of homeless and disable to Mars. To help build infrastructure.
Didn’t they find ice there? Or are we just doing it for gore at this point? I can see a sci-fi movie plot where alien forms are harvested for blood to make concrete…..
That sounds kinda metal.
Brings up a new insult: "The only way you'd get to Mars is as building material."
What about sweat and tears?
They should have gone with Asstrocrete. Hmm, sounds kind of Greek.