So, lets say I’m a bit of a nut and I decide that from now on all I’m going to eat is human poo. FWIW, that’s going to be my only source of water/fluids as well.
How long till I kick the bucket?
Aside: As if there aren’t enough reasons to think that this movie plot is dumb, the fact that the ‘creation’ is going to be dead PDQ and thus a huge waste of time is the biggest one to me. Perhaps if there was any reason at all to think that a human could live on human poo for any amount of time, I might humour my husband and actually go and watch this with him. (Thats a really big if though. Like, huge.)
Wouldn’t the answer depend greatly on how Dr. Crazy decides to deal with the other set of plumbing? If you are getting fluids from your previous segment’s urethra, I’d imagine you’d live quite a bit longer. Otherwise, you’d probably get dehydrated pretty quickly. I sure hope the movie addresses this issue!
I’m not snarking; are you talking about recycling your own wastes (which will presumably become less nutritious with each trip through, um, you), or having some nice, fresh, never-before-eaten poo at every meal?
As an aside, my experience with the board contract at a certain not-to-be-named college in the 1980’s suggests that the answer is >4 years.
Well, as per my link, someone else’s. I’ve got to assume that the idea is that he’s going to make a huge closed circle of people attached ass to mouth who will somehow sustain themselves on the turd of the previous link in the chain. I perpetual motion machine of shit, so to speak.
I submit that the idea is totally stupid in that lower links in the chain would start to die before he could finish his ‘project’.
Well, if you’re going by the link, you’re eating unprepared feces, I think you wouldn’t last long at all, since the e coli alone would kill you pretty quick.
