Where are you going to get a coconut on the Western Front? Some kind of swallow-based logistics system?
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A swallow, carrying a coconut?
If it's an African one. Not sure about the European one if we're talking young coconuts, those things are heavy.
African ones are non migratory though.
Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
Not at all, the swallow could've carried it by the husk.
I'm guessing this was somewhere in the pacific
A swallow couldn't carry a coconut from the tropics, they don't have the mass and thrust of flying necessary to lift and carry one that far.
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Gets interesting when you start to wonder why a coconut and human blood have the same concentration of electrolytes.
Or why they both scream when you crack them open to get at the yummy liquid inside
We are all coconuts. Someone tell the crab people!
(I screenshotted this and sent it to Rust programmers)
They don't, not enough sodium in coconut juice for one thing.
I guess you first use the clean juice to make the wounded stop dying long enough so you can stitch what's left of them together, and if they wake up you could tuck a salt pill under their tongue.
Way too much potassium too (and gives a hint as to why it burns at the infusion site just like a k run would). It's like d5w with potassium and mag. Potentially quite deadly over the long term. Thankfully the glucose in the coconut water treats hyperkalemia or it would be deadly in the short term.
Yeah it's actually a really shitty substitute for blood, it's just slightly less shitty than dying. It was all about keeping the blood pressure high enough so that what little blood you had would work. Coconut water was one of the only things that could do that without also killing you. It's still a very bad day
Well you could always go the boiled water and some salt route. "Yo dog I heard you liked shock so I infused some water with bacteria antigens in it so you could go into shock while you're going into shock."
The short answer is most of life on Earth shares some basic levels of chemistry. That doesn't mean it's a perfect fit though, just that human bodies are resilient enough to make due with terrible substitutes at times.
I think if people really understood that anything you eat and drink is also going into your bloodstream we might all be a lot more careful about what we consume.
Now put the lime in the coconut
Please, no shaking the trauma victims.
... Lime juice through an IV is probably going to be extremely painful to endure, and could just kill you.
For starters: "My blood is on fire" is roughly what that would feel like, lime juice is extremely acidic.
Beyond that: It isn't sterile.
So you're literally mainlining bacterial infections.
Extremely bad idea, its such a bad idea that it would basically constitute a horrific form of torture/execution.
I'm allergic to coconut so I'm pretty sure this would feel similar to me.
I did not realize one could be allergic to coconut, but yes probably avoid that then lol!
It... probably would not 'burn' with the same intensity, as its less acidic than lime.
But... being allergic to it... and then mainlining it... seems like a bad idea that would probably also hurt.
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It's the flesh more than the milk, but yea.
Ahem, well lets hope it wouldn't end up petrifying you. =P
Now put the *line in the coconut
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This also works for hangover recovery.
Coconut water is awesome!
You can actually just drink it if you're hung over in most cases.
Oh dear.
Yes, that is what I meant, but ... I now realize I should have specified that.
Yes, you don't need to mainline the coconut water for it to be good for you lol!
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Don't tell the Jehovah's Witnesses, they'll use it to further justify their insane anti-blood transfusion beliefs.
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Jackie Chan did it in Who Am I. Amazing 90s movie.
The driving stunts in that movie are so rad, like her 180 reverse parking job.
I'm stuck on where the hell these guys were finding coconuts...????
A lot of WWII was fought on Pacific islands.
The swallow may fly south with the sun, or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land?
Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
Not at all. They could be carried.
What -- a swallow carrying a coconut?
It could grip it by the husk!
... The... Pacific theatre?
Whole bunch of tropical islands?
Iwa Jima, guam, midway, all that pacific ocean area they fought the japanese for.
That and or a swallow based logistic system as someone else suggested.
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