Probably funny to a younger Irishman but also remember that the Irish grew plenty of food but it was the English who took it away from them despite the fact that potatoes, one of the few things they were left with to eat, were experiencing a blight. The joke/story is often portrayed as the Irish learning aboit potatoes from the Americas and going all-in like the entire culture just went feral for the things and had a monocrop but that wasn’t at all what happened. It wasn’t about whether or not they liked potatoes and more a matter of what the English would even let them eat after stealing all their food.
I wasn’t making a lot of Irish potatoe jokes before but I straight up stopped after learning that. The English did some pretty fucked up things in Ireland.
Keep in mind that it doesn't say that blood is bad for making bricks. Just that it is worse than potatoes. The real deciding factor will be which is cheaper to get in space.
I know this is a meme but actually looking into this is very interesting, the question being answered is "how can we build on distant planets" which scientists from Manchester university have tried to answer with human waste products and space dust. Any food production on a ship will be for consumption so while potato's are a good choice on earth in reality growing potato's on distant planets pose more question than answers.
Human waste products I can understand. But how many humans would you need to mulch to get enough blood for a building project? That’s one of the main fluids we usually want to stay inside our bodies.
Apartments! Rent slaves!! Real estate ARRGHHGHGFHJ is literally a horrible feudal lord forcing people to spend their entire lives working and dies comfortably in his bed smiling surrounded by his family at 95 after a life of unprecedented luxury suffering no consequences for his immortal behavior ever
So where are they making these bricks? In space? Why do you need bricks... In space?
It would take effort and time, but surely there are far more efficient ways to make bricks on like Mars considering the vast amount of water that's been discovered.
Firstly, this is for creating concrete on mars, where resources are very scarce and making regular concrete is not viable. Secondly, to survive martian conditions, we need to build bases, a lot of very sturdy, structurally sound bases. And lastly, before the potato based concrete, blood was genuinely the most viable solution, being an easily renewable resource. IIRC the martian concrete is now magnitudes better than regular concrete.
You'd think that, but believe it or not: blood or potatoes.
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So the three little astronauts go into the Martian house of blood, and the big bad says "L̶̛̲̗͕̞̍e̸̢̛̼̦͔͋̚͝͝t̸̩͎̺̙̗̙̃ ̶̝̖̣̃̌̚ḿ̵̡̻͆͘ę̸̛́̀̌ ̶̡̙̩͆͂ͅi̷̢͙̓̈́͛͂ń̴̬̩͔̳̱"
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What if you mixed the blood with potatoes?
An Irish is born
(Is that funny or is that offensive, I have no clue)
Probably funny to a younger Irishman but also remember that the Irish grew plenty of food but it was the English who took it away from them despite the fact that potatoes, one of the few things they were left with to eat, were experiencing a blight. The joke/story is often portrayed as the Irish learning aboit potatoes from the Americas and going all-in like the entire culture just went feral for the things and had a monocrop but that wasn’t at all what happened. It wasn’t about whether or not they liked potatoes and more a matter of what the English would even let them eat after stealing all their food.
I wasn’t making a lot of Irish potatoe jokes before but I straight up stopped after learning that. The English did some pretty fucked up things in Ireland.
As a person who grew up in Ireland since I was 5: this is funny to me
As a person that never went to Ireland, i find it pretty funny
As a potato I don't find any of this funny at all.
Oh, come off it. We know you're a blonde and not a sack of potatoes.
Well I never!
I’m Irish, I hereby condone this joke. You are free to go, sir.
Probably both...
"Oh fuck, rocks?! That's right, let's try rocks next. Duh!"
-Rocket scientist, caked in blood and potato debris
There called rocket scientists for a reason, not rock scientists.
is this spudnik?
Pomme de terra
Keep in mind that it doesn't say that blood is bad for making bricks. Just that it is worse than potatoes. The real deciding factor will be which is cheaper to get in space.
This closes off a few bad endings for humanity.
Think again, scientists are often ignored
As long as potatoes have a higher profit margin than blood, the real mosnsters will choose potatoes.
You don't want to know the third thing they tried.
It's piss, no joke
I know this is a meme but actually looking into this is very interesting, the question being answered is "how can we build on distant planets" which scientists from Manchester university have tried to answer with human waste products and space dust. Any food production on a ship will be for consumption so while potato's are a good choice on earth in reality growing potato's on distant planets pose more question than answers.
Human waste products I can understand. But how many humans would you need to mulch to get enough blood for a building project? That’s one of the main fluids we usually want to stay inside our bodies.
We can donate so much a month so a haul to Mars would take years. Also these expedition may get larger with crew capacity.
Its early days yet and this is just one method there will be a dozen more by the time we actually start traversing distant planets.
if for some reason you have overproduction (plague?) nice to know you can make decent bricks out of the food tho
potato plague in space?
yes the potatoes give people plague so you have too many potatoes that could be a reason
Well of course. Without potatoes they’re just trying to get a stone from blood.
Potatoes, what can’t they do?
They make my dick hard
A dick tater?
On the weekends my blood has a good percentage of potato in it. Though I don’t think that’s as good as potato free blood.
suuure bricks. cool cool cool cool. Did I miss the meeting where we resolved the "not able to breathe on Mars" problem?
If we can't figure out how to build stores and factories on Mars, what's even the point of going?
Apartments! Rent slaves!! Real estate ARRGHHGHGFHJ is literally a horrible feudal lord forcing people to spend their entire lives working and dies comfortably in his bed smiling surrounded by his family at 95 after a life of unprecedented luxury suffering no consequences for his immortal behavior ever
This feels like it's part of a Hideo Kojima game.
"Blood grenades? Hah! Have you tried spuds?!"
He codes real-time potato growing into the game.
Blood for the Blood God. Skulls for the Skull Throne.
So where are they making these bricks? In space? Why do you need bricks... In space?
It would take effort and time, but surely there are far more efficient ways to make bricks on like Mars considering the vast amount of water that's been discovered.
In case of space big bad wolves. Duh.
It's so obvious
Firstly, this is for creating concrete on mars, where resources are very scarce and making regular concrete is not viable. Secondly, to survive martian conditions, we need to build bases, a lot of very sturdy, structurally sound bases. And lastly, before the potato based concrete, blood was genuinely the most viable solution, being an easily renewable resource. IIRC the martian concrete is now magnitudes better than regular concrete.
Yes, bit what about in space?
That's the part I don't understand, what are you going to do with bricks in space???
Throw them at space billionaires, duh.
pig houses duh
Build a brick house, duh
You'd think that, but believe it or not: blood or potatoes.
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So the three little astronauts go into the Martian house of blood, and the big bad says "L̶̛̲̗͕̞̍e̸̢̛̼̦͔͋̚͝͝t̸̩͎̺̙̗̙̃ ̶̝̖̣̃̌̚ḿ̵̡̻͆͘ę̸̛́̀̌ ̶̡̙̩͆͂ͅi̷̢͙̓̈́͛͂ń̴̬̩͔̳̱"
Which of the two options did they think of first? I want a recording of that meeting.
Why, sausage, of course.
Guess it’s leaches and blood letting again.
Give it to witches.