"How long is it?"

"That's a very personal question, sir!"

/Not obscure?

I bet that warm piss tasted soooo delicious

LittleSmitty: I bet that warm piss tasted soooo delicious

Probably straight from the bottle too.

Steven Callahan was lost at sea for 76 days in a rubber raft and he didn't even have the luxery of companions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Callahan

Just sayin'.

The Noble Rot: Steven Callahan was lost at sea for 76 days in a rubber raft and he didn't even have the luxery of companionsa dictionary.

FTFY

Monty python-Eat me (new window)

Sailor #2: What's the matter with Johnson, sir?

Sailor #1: Well, he's not kosher.

Sailor #3: That depends how we kill him, sir.

Sailor #1: Yes, that's true. But to be perfectly frank I...I like my meat a little more lean. I'd rather eat Hodges.

southaustin: The Noble Rot: Steven Callahan was lost at sea for 76 days in a rubber raft and he didn't even have the luxery of companionsa dictionary.

FTFY

Both of you missed that?

/2 strikes???

Poon Lim unimpressed

Triaxis: LittleSmitty: I bet that warm piss tasted soooo delicious

Probably straight from the bottle TAP too.

/FTFY

The Noble Rot: Steven Callahan was lost at sea for 76 days in a rubber raft and he didn't even have the luxery of companions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Callahan

Just sayin'.

That's what I cane here to post. The URL was on the clipboard and everything.

Callahan tried several ways to get water. After his solar still collapsed, he dismantled it and tried to jury-rig a replacement with a cooler, cans and plastic wrap, which failed. He then tried using the raft shroud as a rainwater catchment system, but flecks of orange paint contaminated the water and made him dreadfully ill. As it turns out, he got plenty of water by eating the eyeballs of the fish he managed to spear.

+1 headline!

LittleSmitty: I bet that warm piss tasted soooo delicious

The only problem with drinking urine is that, every time you drink it, it becomes more and more concentrated with salt and urea, until it's worse than drinking seawater.

Current survival manuals suggest that, if you have the means, a fair amount of fresh water can be absorbed from seawater through enema.

I have to admit that my headline reading experience was ruined by the mistakes but then I came into the thread and saw that several people had taken the time out of their day to engage in pedantry and my cock got rock hard and started spurting semen.

buckler: LittleSmitty:
Current survival manuals suggest that, if you have the means, a fair amount of fresh water can be absorbed from seawater through enema.


?? Explain.

SockMonkeyHolocaust:

You're a filthy, filthy man.


Welcome home, brother!

There's a Far Side cartoon for this, but it involves a "fat and happy" dog.

buckler: LittleSmitty: I bet that warm piss tasted soooo delicious

The only problem with drinking urine is that, every time you drink it, it becomes more and more concentrated with salt and urea, until it's worse than drinking seawater.

Current survival manuals suggest that, if you have the means, a fair amount of fresh water can be absorbed from seawater through enema.

Feral John will never go boating with buckler

Dr.DangerWW: buckler: LittleSmitty:
Current survival manuals suggest that, if you have the means, a fair amount of fresh water can be absorbed from seawater through enema.


?? Explain.

IIRC, the large intestine absorbs water. Perhaps not salt.

Dr.DangerWW: buckler: LittleSmitty:
Current survival manuals suggest that, if you have the means, a fair amount of fresh water can be absorbed from seawater through enema.


?? Explain.

It's been a long time since I read it, but my understanding is that if you can get the seawater in, and keep it in, the bowel will eventually absorb the water by osmosis, leaving the salt behind. I'd prefer if someone with more knowledge than I could chime in, though.

buckler: Current survival manuals suggest that, if you have the means, a fair amount of fresh water can be absorbed from seawater through enema.

Doesn't this violate an osmotic gradient? Seawater has a higher salt concentration than the human body so water flows preferentially from you to it until you have the same concentration as the ocean around you. Unfortunately, you die before this happens.

+1

poorjon: buckler: Current survival manuals suggest that, if you have the means, a fair amount of fresh water can be absorbed from seawater through enema.

Doesn't this violate an osmotic gradient? Seawater has a higher salt concentration than the human body so water flows preferentially from you to it until you have the same concentration as the ocean around you. Unfortunately, you die before this happens.

That's exactly what I was wondering about. Let me see if I can to a bit of googling...

And here I thought that the turkey baster they included in the lifeboat survival kit was for tenderizing the person you were eating.

Ah! That was quick...as it turns out, I was confused. The enema is recommended for contaminated water (such as in Callahan's case above), and not seawater. My bad.

????

buckler: LittleSmitty: I bet that warm piss tasted soooo delicious

The only problem with drinking urine is that, every time you drink it, it becomes more and more concentrated with salt and urea, until it's worse than drinking seawater.

Current survival manuals suggest that, if you have the means, a fair amount of fresh water can be absorbed from seawater through enema.

Neither one sounds very appealing. But the enema may be a problem. I'd be trying to catch fish to get water and food before doing either

poorjon: buckler: Current survival manuals suggest that, if you have the means, a fair amount of fresh water can be absorbed from seawater through enema.

Doesn't this violate an osmotic gradient? Seawater has a higher salt concentration than the human body so water flows preferentially from you to it until you have the same concentration as the ocean around you. Unfortunately, you die before this happens.

Actually the human body has almost exactly the same salt content as sea water. Something to do with our ancestors crawling out of the sea or something

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Not impressed.

No, Submitter. We were born as civilized men and we shall die as civilized men.

LittleSmitty: poorjon: buckler: Current survival manuals suggest that, if you have the means, a fair amount of fresh water can be absorbed from seawater through enema.

Doesn't this violate an osmotic gradient? Seawater has a higher salt concentration than the human body so water flows preferentially from you to it until you have the same concentration as the ocean around you. Unfortunately, you die before this happens.

Actually the human body has almost exactly the same salt content as sea water. Something to do with our ancestors crawling out of the sea or something

Actually, no, the oceans' concentration of salt is much much higher than the bodys. Taste a tear, taste a drop of sea water. You'll see.

ShawnDoc: Sailor #2: What's the matter with Johnson, sir?

Sailor #1: Well, he's not kosher.

Sailor #3: That depends how we kill him, sir.

Sailor #1: Yes, that's true. But to be perfectly frank I...I like my meat a little more lean. I'd rather eat Hodges.

Ewwww - with a gammy leg?

DaddyRat: Ewwww - with a gammy leg?

You needn't eat the leg!

This story has been played out a number of times where it turns out the "survivor" like murdered the crew and stole the boat, then makes up a story that some other thugs took the boat and he's been adrift all this time, having to backdate the story's time he went into the raft to when the boat mysteriously stopped calling home or whatever.

Survivalists are quick to criticize the degree of dehydration, malnutrition, sunburn, etc to call bullshiat on this kind of story. A certain degree of initial skepticism is required.

... oh yeah ocean current analysis is helpful too. If the guy claims he got into an unpowered raft weeks ago from a known location, analysis of currents and wind since then gives a pretty accurate estimate of where he would be when found. If they can nail down where he claims to have been when set adrift (last radio'ed GPS location and direction and he says they were boarded an hour later) and he's hundreds of miles in the wrong direction for the currents then they can call b.s. just on that.

coldandtired

You beat me to it!

/Yay flesh eating seaweed!
//Loved that book

buckler: poorjon: buckler: Current survival manuals suggest that, if you have the means, a fair amount of fresh water can be absorbed from seawater through enema.

Doesn't this violate an osmotic gradient? Seawater has a higher salt concentration than the human body so water flows preferentially from you to it until you have the same concentration as the ocean around you. Unfortunately, you die before this happens.

That's exactly what I was wondering about. Let me see if I can to a bit of googling...

Clenching is required.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_osmosis (new window)

I came here for Monty Python quotes and was not dissapointed.

/I wish you should all stop complaning and just eat me

R. v. Dudley and Stephens

Oznog: This story has been played out a number of times where it turns out the "survivor" like murdered the crew and stole the boat, then makes up a story that some other thugs took the boat and he's been adrift all this time, having to backdate the story's time he went into the raft to when the boat mysteriously stopped calling home or whatever.

Except the survivors weren't making the claim. They were reported missing on their fishing trip by their families. And they themselves were "the crew."

So, drinking urine to survive. I would suppose the best way to do this would be to drink each others rather than try and drink your own unless you have a cup handy. You wouldn't want to spill any.

Must remember to carry a collapsible drinking cup everywhere I go from now on...

Mildly impressed.

WILSON!!!!!

Don't try drinking blood if shipwrecked, either.

Really.

...and we'll make some stock from the captain...

Haoie:
Don't try drinking blood if shipwrecked, either.

Really.

And in that vein...