Poll of the Day > How much human blood would it take to get enough iron to forge a 1m/1.5kg blade?

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Dreaming_King
07/09/17 9:25:43 AM
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Asking for a friend.
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Grendel Prime
07/09/17 9:37:03 AM
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This has been asked numerous times. My brother thought about this and turns out the internet is full of people asking this question. IIRC it takes blood of like 2500+ people to make one sword.
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Go_Totodile
07/09/17 9:37:23 AM
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EvilMegas
07/09/17 9:44:17 AM
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The reply is somehow even more cringy than the OP.
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Lightning Bolt
07/09/17 9:47:04 AM
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EvilMegas posted...
The reply is somehow even more cringy than the OP.

Presumably he's just writing a fantasy story, no?
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Grendel Prime
07/09/17 9:52:44 AM
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EvilMegas posted...
The reply is somehow even more cringy than the OP.

Don't know why it's cringy to repeat some useless information I acquired from a question my brother asked. Sometimes people retain oddball trivia, this is not something I care to know. I'm not even sure if it's correct.
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Dreaming_King
07/09/17 9:59:26 AM
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Grendel Prime posted...
This has been asked numerous times. My brother thought about this and turns out the internet is full of people asking this question. IIRC it takes blood of like 2500+ people to make one sword.

Thanks fam. I suppose I should have used google before making the thread but whatever. That's a ton of people though, yikes. That gives me useful info though, something like a small sword pendant with a .1g blade would work better then I guess.

Also I wonder how small of a meteorite would get you that much usable iron. Like what percent of a typical meteor is iron and how large it would have to be to not burn up on entry and only leave enough iron to make a single blade.
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Veedrock-
07/09/17 10:01:05 AM
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Nerd alert.

Edit: Damn how did I miss TC is sword guy.
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rjsilverthorn
07/09/17 10:35:57 AM
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Dreaming_King posted...
Grendel Prime posted...
This has been asked numerous times. My brother thought about this and turns out the internet is full of people asking this question. IIRC it takes blood of like 2500+ people to make one sword.

Thanks fam. I suppose I should have used google before making the thread but whatever. That's a ton of people though, yikes. That gives me useful info though, something like a small sword pendant with a .1g blade would work better then I guess.

Also I wonder how small of a meteorite would get you that much usable iron. Like what percent of a typical meteor is iron and how large it would have to be to not burn up on entry and only leave enough iron to make a single blade.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_meteorite#Composition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteoric_iron
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Lightning Bolt
07/09/17 10:37:49 AM
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Dreaming_King posted...
That's a ton of people though, yikes. That gives me useful info though, something like a small sword pendant with a .1g blade would work better then I guess.

You could do a starmetal thing.
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0297.html

"It's too dense to make a whole sword out of, but an alloy would be the tits."
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Sir_Linebeck
07/09/17 10:39:21 AM
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I fear for the friend
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Cacciato
07/09/17 11:32:07 AM
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Dreaming_King posted...
I suppose I should have used google before making the thread

No kidding.
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shadowsword87
07/09/17 11:47:35 AM
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Lightning Bolt posted...
EvilMegas posted...
The reply is somehow even more cringy than the OP.

Presumably he's just writing a fantasy story, no?


If there's any fantasy story I'm reading that includes turning blood into a sword, holy shit I'm burning that book so fast it would make your head spin.
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DorkLink
07/09/17 12:38:31 PM
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"Stop calling me Sword Guy" - Sword Guy
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Dreaming_King
07/10/17 6:35:59 AM
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rjsilverthorn posted...
Dreaming_King posted...
Grendel Prime posted...
This has been asked numerous times. My brother thought about this and turns out the internet is full of people asking this question. IIRC it takes blood of like 2500+ people to make one sword.

Thanks fam. I suppose I should have used google before making the thread but whatever. That's a ton of people though, yikes. That gives me useful info though, something like a small sword pendant with a .1g blade would work better then I guess.

Also I wonder how small of a meteorite would get you that much usable iron. Like what percent of a typical meteor is iron and how large it would have to be to not burn up on entry and only leave enough iron to make a single blade.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_meteorite#Composition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteoric_iron

Hmm... I did the math here and came to an extremely interesting conclusion, remarkable really.

It wasn't that hard though so I'll let anyone else do it if they're interested to know what I'm talking about.
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