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[–] 35 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Id love to see the math on the amount of iron in a person's blood, because I find it HIGHLY questionable that there's enough iron in only 300 people to make a full iron sword. I'm too lazy to do it myself though.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The numbers roughly check out. Not sure how much one can extract by just draining the blood though.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You're both in luck! Someone else linked to an article that breaks down how it could work in reality: https://startrek.website/comment/9430643

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    All three of you are in luck! Someone made a video attempting to actually forge a sword this way!: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

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