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[Frumple]

Probably means the ones that are built to retain heat and be carried around outside the house and whatnot. The fancier ones.

and ninja'd, eh.

[Helgoland]

Come on, don't fuck up my shitty joke.

[Yoink]

Whoops. >.>

* Yoink is not at the top of his shitty joke game right now.

If it makes it any better, I did chuckle when I saw it. Not sure if it was audible or not, but it was something.

[Frumple]

Come on, don't fuck up my shitty joke.

Gotta' start thursday morning off somehow. Low bars make for easy liftin' :V

[Sheb]

portable coffee mug

What sort of shitty coffee mugs do you usually have that you can't move them around?

Dud, you don't want to know how much of a coffee addict I am. More seriously, yes those insulated, lidded ones.

[Comrade P.]

So, searching around my room, I found some kind of portable coffee mug left behind by my predecessor... That was apparently filled with tea since then. I've scoured it clean, but it still smell godawful. That stuff would be practical though, any idea to get rid of the smell?

Try baking soda. Failing that, vinegar - go for the strongest available. Might help.

[Antioch]

Is there a way to process regular grass so its nutritious for humans? (boiling, grinding it into a flour etc)

[Frumple]

Feed it to a cow. *coughs* Or wrap it in vitamins and whatnot.

But so far as I'm aware, and cursory googling showed, basically no so far as grass by itself goes. There are varieties of grass that we can eat and do alright by, but your bog standard yard grass sorts aren't really one of them. You can maybe eat it, but it's not unlikely to make you sick and won't do much for you regardless, no matter how you cook it. We're just not really equipped to digest the stuff.

E: You can also mulch it and use it to grow other plants you actually can easily get stuff out of. Like livestock, but less bodily fluids. So... sorta'! If you count filtering it through an intermediary and eating the intermediary processing.

[Antioch]

Blending it into a smoothie wouldn't make it digestible?

What if you grind it and let it soak in an acidic environment? Isn't that basically what cows do?





How the f do cows survive virtually exclusively on the stuff.

[Antioch]

Because they have 4-chambered stomachs and unique gut bacteria which can break down the components of grass. Humans lack those bacteria and the right form of stomach, so we can't really break it down into anything useful.

Simply soaking the stuff in acid won't do much, since that's what our stomachs do too.

Aha! so we ferment the stuff.

[scrdest]

Because they have 4-chambered stomachs and unique gut bacteria which can break down the components of grass. Humans lack those bacteria and the right form of stomach, so we can't really break it down into anything useful.

Simply soaking the stuff in acid won't do much, since that's what our stomachs do too.

Aha! so we ferment the stuff.

Well, you could, technically. East Germany was producing alcohol from wood pulp, which is indigestible for the exact same reasons grass is.

[Baffler]

Also if I remember right grass is made mostly of cellulose by volume, and we can't do anything useful with that because of its treacherous β(1→4) linkages. It contains other stuff, but not really in any useful quantity. I have heard of people making stews by steeping (not sure if that's the word) a lot of grass, clearing out the junk, and repeating until it gets concentrated enough to satiate, but that's desperation and probably more effort than its worth anyway.

[Antioch]

Also if I remember right grass is made mostly of cellulose by volume, and we can't do anything useful with that because of its treacherous β(1→4) linkages. It contains other stuff, but not really in any useful quantity. I have heard of people making stews by steeping (not sure if that's the word) a lot of grass, clearing out the junk, and repeating until it gets concentrated enough to satiate, but that's desperation and probably more effort than its worth anyway.

If it doesn't include stuff in useful quantities except for cellulose, how can cows sustain themselves exclusively on the stuff even when they DO digest the stuff?

[Bauglir]

Cellulose is specifically what cows' gut bacteria are evolved to do to enable them to digest it.

[Antioch]

Cellulose is specifically what cows' gut bacteria are evolved to do to enable them to digest it.

Yes so why can't we put lots of grass in a big tank with those bacteria, wait a while and then make smoothies with whatever the bacteria turn the grass into?