At the end of the Smell-o-Vision ride. 10|10 awesome museum.

  • @[email protected]
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    51 year ago

    I know soldiers who have had larger shits after field training. Source I worked at a rec center that would be their first stop as they prep to go home. And I would check the bathroom and see that it was left when they could not flush it.

  • Zoift [he/him]
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    101 year ago

    “Analysis of the stool has indicated that its producer subsisted largely on meat and bread, despite evidence suggesting that other people at the same place and time had access to fruits, leeks, shellfish, and nuts. The presence of several hundred parasitic eggs suggests the person was riddled with intestinal worms.”

    Amazing

  • @[email protected]
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    121 year ago

    But was it as big as Klee Irwin’s description on his infamous TV infomercial for dual cleanse? I ask you…. I watched this infomercial in absolute awe and confusion once back in 2005/2006 eating lunch at home sick. I had to look this up again seeing this post.

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    “I’ll never forget the first time I saw my four-year-old daughter’s bowel movement in the toilet. It literally scared me. She wasn’t more than 45 pounds, but her bowel movement was about as thick as my wrist and about as long as her arm. And I thought, ‘Oh my God.’ I got scared. I was going to call my wife. I thought, ‘How could something that big come of something—a little child—that small. And I thought, I’m six feet tall and I weigh 190 pounds and by proportion to my size compared to hers my bowel movements were very inadequate to say the least.”

  • @[email protected]
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    81 year ago

    I don’t know who would pay thousands of dollars for an old shit, but I’m quite certain they ain’t my kind of people

  • MamboGator
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    191 year ago

    I wonder if the reason it was so well preserved is the viking was proud and wanted to show it off.

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      1 year ago

      This is my bread and butter. Peat is anoxic. It’s great for preservation and you get tonnes of stuff that doesn’t preserve elsewhere. Google “Must Farm, UK” I’m an archaeologist that does environmental work in these kinds of environments. Peat preserves eyelashes on bog bodies, it’s nuts. Dissolves other stuff though due to the acids. I’ve got a diagram somewhere give me a bit.

      • Enkrod
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        31 year ago

        Well the human gut is anoxic too, so that shouldn’t be a problem for the gut-bacteria in that log and in the bog mummies. I think it way more likely that the sphagnan and the other tannins in peat-bog-water conserved this as well as the bog bodies.

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          1 year ago

          It’s the eggs you count for parasites. I do this for a living, my friend. I posted a diagram. Soft bodied insects don’t preserve well.

          • Enkrod
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            21 year ago

            That is extremely cool and I don’t doubt your expertise in the slightest. Was only commenting about that anoxic conditions alone wouldn’t necessarily preserve the bog mummies, but that the acidic conditions and tannins are likely more important.

            • @[email protected]OPM
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              11 year ago

              Ah yes, I got confused for a minute. The lack of oxygen is the most important for preservation in general, but specifically for skin etc., the acid and tannins keep that.

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    1 year ago

    Fun story for y’all.

    I used to drink a lot of milk. I was a constipated teen. I took a shit one day, and to say it was anything short of awe aspiring wouldn’t do it justice. This thing was one solid thick rod sticking out of the water.

    I called my stepdad to check it out. Naturally, he was so surprised he had to tell Mum to come over. A few minutes later we’ve got a whole family of six in a bathroom admiring my turd.

    My stepdad claims to have uploaded it to ratemypoo .com (don’t bother going there, the site takes you to ratemypussy .com).

    This day I learned our family was not normal.

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    541 year ago

    the word “Coprolite” simply meaning fossilized dung.

    I think I just found my new label for describing our ruling class.

    We live in a coprocracy, run by coprolites.

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        Oh there’s plenty of good science I can think of!

        How many coprolites can be cut in two by a single motion of a guillotine blade?

        Does a coprolite puree make a viable fertilizer?

        How do coprolites hold up against extremes in temperature, pressure, or acceleration? Exposure to acids, bases, enzymatics, radiation?

        So much valuable data!