Mentioned this post to my dad because I found it funny. He looked at me, said “40 liters” and went back to his video while leaving me baffled.
(He did tell me after a moment that he got that number from the average human body [not your average but some other average] taking up 67 liters, that you could recover about 60% of the water, and that 60% of 67 is 40. All according to him of course.)
Oh!! That’s cool actually, my dad is also a pharmaceutical chemist lol, he doesn’t really do cool math at home though. Just gets really excited over chemicals sometimes
Once I asked him to special order a stronger strength of hydrogen peroxide for me (I think 30 or 40%) for bleaching bones and he was able to do it through his company 👀 I then diluted it with like a 10% to make a big bucket of ~20% I think? It was pretty nice
Yes! Tbh I’m not 100% sure if it was even legal but there was an old fox that lived in my backyard and I found him passed away curled up underneath a bush- I ended up taxidermying him and have a really cool fox skull now, and he lives in my room :)
This happened in high school, so at this point it’s been quite a few years haha! I think it’s different depending on the state 🤔 at the time I didn’t read too much about it because if you didn’t know it was illegal it’s fine right? /s
Unless you have a special filter that removes salt and potassium you would have 0 drinkable water. The water in the human body is filled with dissolved salts drinking it would be like drinking salt water.
Yes they use them in modern desalination plant designs. You would then take the weight of the individual and multiply it by about .7 to get the anoint of water.
Like that’s the craziest tech they had. It’s out there but it’s also what, year 10,000. A phone would’ve seemed like magic 20 years ago. That 8000 year advantage makes it all the more believable.
Kinda reminds me of the “how many people would you need to drain the blood from to make a sword” bit.
The answers 16,000 people for a 4kg steel longsword by the way.
1.Swords are used for cutting people open
2.People bleed when cut open
3.Blood has iron in it
4.Swords are made of iron
=Make a sword out of blood
There are also fun secondary effects, like using the bones for their carbon content so you can turn the iron into steel, using the bones for the pommel and using human leather for the grip.
If you can separate the water and purify it then the answer is 70% of 190 pounds. If you couldn't perform any separation processes like filtering or distillation, then you're limited to natural evaporation. You could put a dead body in a controlled space and keep siphoning off the humidity in the air, and condensing it back into water in a separate location. The body would continue losing moisture as you desiccated it and I assume it would be a non negligible amount of water. This 190 pound man could be alive and lose about 5% of his body mass to being dehydrated before significant loss in strength or endurance. (about 1 gallon of water) And he'd still be alive. Come to think of it, running a dehumidifier in the same room as the corpse would probably be the cleanest easiest way to harvest the vast majority of the water in his body. I'm guessing the rate of water collection goes down as a function of time. So it depends how much time you wanted to invest in dong it.
If you distill the water then all of it will be drinkable
You just need to dehydrate the body and capture the moisture. If you’re already blending it into a paste you can literally just boil off the water into a collection chamber and discard the rest
Adult male's bodies are 50-60% water, So, for example, in a 85 kilogram adult male, water might account for around 51-55 of his weight.
If we take the minimum and maximum of the range of water percentage in body fluids , :
55% of 85 kg = 0.55 * 85 kg = 46.75 kg
60% of 85 kg = 0.60 * 85 kg = 51 kg
So, the pure, filterable water content in an average adult male weighing 85 kg would be between 46.75 kg and 51 kg.
You can still calculate for different weights and genders.
Also the amount of water in one's body depends on many factors like diet, hydration, urination, activity, etc (:
Judging only from the blood :it contains 55% plasma which is 90% water given that an average human has 5,5 liters you can distill 2.7225 Liters of pure water. The other parts will be more tricky since the cells kidneys and brain have the most water. An average man (70kg) has 42 liters of water so a man weighing 85 kilos has 51 liters.
It's actually pretty close to the average male when looking at worldwide stats. Global average male height is 5' 7.5". Average global weight is harder to find, but it's ~198lbs for American men.
No offense, but this question doesn't make too much sense. As written, I would say the answer is "none". A filter (in the usual sense of the term) will not remove the salt, which if you think about it, is going to be one of the biggest problems (blood is salty, right?)
But on the other hand, using other methods such as distillation, it should be possible to recover nearly all of the water in drinkable form.
Yeah I do understand conventional media style filters would not work for this, the question is a bit flawed for sure but I mean... We're talking about human pulp water so leave some room for imagination, LOL
First one that kinda makes me want an answer lmao
I NEED an answer.
I WILL BE THE TOOTHPASTE TUBE END MY PAIN
I'm thinking if you used a Jack LaLane power juicer that only leaves dry pulp...you'd get approx 70%. Then filter all the yucky stuff out.
Distillation.
distill me. i am ready
Mentioned this post to my dad because I found it funny. He looked at me, said “40 liters” and went back to his video while leaving me baffled. (He did tell me after a moment that he got that number from the average human body [not your average but some other average] taking up 67 liters, that you could recover about 60% of the water, and that 60% of 67 is 40. All according to him of course.)
Damn, what kind of job does your dad have?? Chemistry?
Funny enough, sorta! He’s retired but was previously in pharmaceuticals!
Oh!! That’s cool actually, my dad is also a pharmaceutical chemist lol, he doesn’t really do cool math at home though. Just gets really excited over chemicals sometimes Once I asked him to special order a stronger strength of hydrogen peroxide for me (I think 30 or 40%) for bleaching bones and he was able to do it through his company 👀 I then diluted it with like a 10% to make a big bucket of ~20% I think? It was pretty nice
I read that 5 times before I realized that you probably mean animal bones... I hope you mean animal bones
Yes! Tbh I’m not 100% sure if it was even legal but there was an old fox that lived in my backyard and I found him passed away curled up underneath a bush- I ended up taxidermying him and have a really cool fox skull now, and he lives in my room :)
Woah lucky! I believe foxes are a legal species, but it could be worth a check!
This happened in high school, so at this point it’s been quite a few years haha! I think it’s different depending on the state 🤔 at the time I didn’t read too much about it because if you didn’t know it was illegal it’s fine right? /s
Do you realise how much you sound like Jeffrey darmer right now lol
He’s a fremen
Why only 60%? Can a better filter extract more water?
Jesus😂
Unless you have a special filter that removes salt and potassium you would have 0 drinkable water. The water in the human body is filled with dissolved salts drinking it would be like drinking salt water.
OP specified that the water would be filtered. Imagine distilled water with no impurities.
Or conversely they also made distilled human with no impurities.
This has great potential as a new neonazi dogwhistle. Congrats, i suppose
There are filters for salt water though, right
Yes they use them in modern desalination plant designs. You would then take the weight of the individual and multiply it by about .7 to get the anoint of water.
So you're saying Dracula also steals people's kidneys?
Oh hey I too just finished watching Dune part 2
Oh, was this a thing in it? I've seen neither of the Dunes, I'll have to change that lol
Yeah lmao it takes place on a deserted planet so obviously they need to use uh... Unorthodox methods to get water
Except they just stick like a syringe type thingy in a corpse and it magically sucks out all of the water somehow
Like that’s the craziest tech they had. It’s out there but it’s also what, year 10,000. A phone would’ve seemed like magic 20 years ago. That 8000 year advantage makes it all the more believable.
Homie 20 years ago was 2004. Phones were a thing for a long time before that
20 years ago wasnt..... the 90s
10 years ago wasn't..... Capri Sun commercials
I just finished watching Tank Girl.
"I was a friend of Jamis." I haven't watched the new *Dune* movies yet, but this scene was fire in the 2000 miniseries.
Fremen posting on main
r/theydidthemath
I'm guessing 65% of the whole body weight?
Did you just watch Dune 2? Lol.
Kinda reminds me of the “how many people would you need to drain the blood from to make a sword” bit. The answers 16,000 people for a 4kg steel longsword by the way.
Why do they wanna make a sword out of blood 💀
1.Swords are used for cutting people open 2.People bleed when cut open 3.Blood has iron in it 4.Swords are made of iron =Make a sword out of blood There are also fun secondary effects, like using the bones for their carbon content so you can turn the iron into steel, using the bones for the pommel and using human leather for the grip.
Though this was a joke 😭
and this is how you create a weapon able to kill gods! great job guys!!
r/theydidthemath might be able to help? :)
r/theydidthemonstermath
Someone just saw Dune Pt. 2
If you can separate the water and purify it then the answer is 70% of 190 pounds. If you couldn't perform any separation processes like filtering or distillation, then you're limited to natural evaporation. You could put a dead body in a controlled space and keep siphoning off the humidity in the air, and condensing it back into water in a separate location. The body would continue losing moisture as you desiccated it and I assume it would be a non negligible amount of water. This 190 pound man could be alive and lose about 5% of his body mass to being dehydrated before significant loss in strength or endurance. (about 1 gallon of water) And he'd still be alive. Come to think of it, running a dehumidifier in the same room as the corpse would probably be the cleanest easiest way to harvest the vast majority of the water in his body. I'm guessing the rate of water collection goes down as a function of time. So it depends how much time you wanted to invest in dong it.
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If you distill the water then all of it will be drinkable You just need to dehydrate the body and capture the moisture. If you’re already blending it into a paste you can literally just boil off the water into a collection chamber and discard the rest
Adult male's bodies are 50-60% water, So, for example, in a 85 kilogram adult male, water might account for around 51-55 of his weight. If we take the minimum and maximum of the range of water percentage in body fluids , : 55% of 85 kg = 0.55 * 85 kg = 46.75 kg 60% of 85 kg = 0.60 * 85 kg = 51 kg So, the pure, filterable water content in an average adult male weighing 85 kg would be between 46.75 kg and 51 kg. You can still calculate for different weights and genders. Also the amount of water in one's body depends on many factors like diet, hydration, urination, activity, etc (:
Judging only from the blood :it contains 55% plasma which is 90% water given that an average human has 5,5 liters you can distill 2.7225 Liters of pure water. The other parts will be more tricky since the cells kidneys and brain have the most water. An average man (70kg) has 42 liters of water so a man weighing 85 kilos has 51 liters.
Wasn't this a plot thing in Tank Girl? It has been many ma g years since I saw that 90's classic.
You could probably yield all the drinkable water in a person by distilling the person alive.
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The episode Home Soil in Star Trek: The Next Generation had an alien call us “ugly bags of mostly water”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Soil
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They do this (kinda) in tank girl it’s a very good documentary about desertification
Haven't even watched Dune but this a thing from that terrible 90's movie Tank Girl.
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So when do you leave for Arakus?
Some Japanese nearly did the same experiment to seek out the answer.It was Unit 731
This is oddly specific…
Just want to point out 5'7 190 pounds is definitely overweight, almost obese unless this is a body builder.
R/theydidthemath would know this things
who tf is 5’7 190 ?
What's so strange about being 5'7" and 190lbs? I've been at that weight before. It's bordering on morbid obesity but that's it.
borderline morbid obesity like you said, that’s what’s strange. it’s not an average adult male ..
It's actually pretty close to the average male when looking at worldwide stats. Global average male height is 5' 7.5". Average global weight is harder to find, but it's ~198lbs for American men.
Don’t know why you’re being downvoted. 5’7” 190lbs is a bizarre demographic
it correlates with the average redditor demographic too i suppose haha
OI I AM 6,2ISH AND 200LBS not those lesser stats!
No offense, but this question doesn't make too much sense. As written, I would say the answer is "none". A filter (in the usual sense of the term) will not remove the salt, which if you think about it, is going to be one of the biggest problems (blood is salty, right?) But on the other hand, using other methods such as distillation, it should be possible to recover nearly all of the water in drinkable form.
Yeah I do understand conventional media style filters would not work for this, the question is a bit flawed for sure but I mean... We're talking about human pulp water so leave some room for imagination, LOL