My uncle knocks that out every leap year. 3,5 tons ain’t shit.
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I feel like I'm trending in line to make at least like 6 metric tons of shit. 3.5 seems low.
I'm going for the high score
Faeces Georg
Was an outlier and will not be included in this study.
People who say we need petro chemicals for modern agriculture need to understand this
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Sandman slim taught me that you can shit on a tarp for a year, dry it in the sun, and all that shit will fit in a shoebox at the end of the year.
Not without additional steps, a shoebox for big boots or being malnurished.
For reference, a large normal shoebox can hold 10-11kg of water, which is about the same mass as a year of dried average and healthy expulsions(~29g per day). And without compressing it as it dries or other methods, the tarp-dried feces wont be as dense as water.
It should also be mentioned that there are people who produce over three times as much, simply because they eat a lot more.
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Maybe you do; I produce far more feces by replying to comments on the internet
I am the one who shits. 😤
And a smidgeon or three of PFAS and plastics and heavy metals.
My loving sibby once told me to look around me while on a bus. Said look to the left of you, look to the right. Everyone you see is full of shit. Was a nice gesture, and I think I've kept that with me always =)
A corollary to that: we spend our entire lives moving shit from one place to another.
Works for both definitions.
So, uh... where does it all wind up? Like all of our tons of shit---where are they stock piling it?
https://extension.psu.edu/what-is-sewage-sludge-and-what-can-be-done-with-it
Approximately 99% of the wastewater stream that enters a treatment plant is discharged as rejuvenated water. The remainder is a dilute suspension of solids that has been captured by the treatment process. These wastewater treatment solids are commonly referred to as sewage sludge.
At present, almost all sewage sludge produced in Pennsylvania has been treated and is of sufficiently high quality to be classified as biosolids. Somewhat less than half of this material is disposed of by landfilling or incineration, while the remaining biosolids are recycled to the soil by use in agriculture, mine reclamation, landscaping, or horticulture.
"Rejuvenated" is a fancy way to say they dump it into the nearest water way (river, lake, ocean)
You're mostly drinking water that has, at some point, passed through a dinosaur!
Dinosaurs, as a taxonomic group, have been around[10] for 230 million years, but their heyday was the mid-to-late Jurassic period. In this period, there were probably around 5 trillion kilograms of dinosaur alive at any given time.[11] (Today, there are probably only a few hundred billion kilograms of living dinosaur,[12] 50 billion of it chicken).
If we assume Jurassic dinosaur water requirements were similar to mammal ones,[13] then this suggests dinosaurs drank something like 1022 or 1023 liters of water during the Mesozoic era—more than the total volume of the oceans (1021 liters).
The average "residence time" of water in the oceans—the amount of time a water molecule spends there before moving into another part of the water cycle—is about 3,000 years,[14] and no part of the water cycle traps water for more than a few hundred thousand years. This means we can assume that, over timescales of millions of years, Earth's water is thoroughly mixed—and dinosaurs had plenty of time to drink it all many times over.
This means that while the chances are that most of the water in your soda has never been in another soda, almost all of it has been drunk by at least one dinosaur.
The ocean. Such a waste
Well theres good news and bad news.
Good news is that it's organic matter that can easily change form.
Well it should be going back on the crop land. The circle of life.
Well shit.
38 liters sounded impossibly low, and then i saw the 3 zeros after the space
No, you!
You're welcome.
I'm on that low% speedrun