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How do you make artificial poo?

Asked by Ltryptophan (12091points) March 19th, 2010

Is poo something you can make in a laboratory without an animal?? Throw a bunch of food in a processor and add some acids and such and then ferment it or something, and out comes the poo???

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MyNewtBoobs's avatar

Better question: WHY do you make artificial poo?

Coloma's avatar

I’m afraid this is out of my lines of expertise. Good luck with that! lololol

MyNewtBoobs's avatar

@talljasperman Of what? I can’t think of any point in my life that I’ve ever heard of a need for artificial poo (plastic prank poo being plastic, not artificial)

talljasperman's avatar

@papayalily a trailblazer could make use of it… as fertilizer

mrrich724's avatar

Why worry about it since so much natural and organic poo is made every day. I’m sure people would sell it to you for cheap! Also, I heard organic is healthier for you!

Captain_Fantasy's avatar

I can make the genuine article if you’re buying.

TheBot's avatar

Thank God poo does not come from fermentation! My guess is you can do it in a lab, but you have to design a pretty incredible machine that supports bacterial life, identifies and absorbs the nutrients necessary to human life. You have to make it such that the surface area is large enough. I don’t know how you’d go about creating it. But if you succeed, then poo should ensue.

ZEPHYRA's avatar

Polystyrene painted brown, for the smell, well, I guess there are a number of things you could do!

Coloma's avatar

@TheBot

” poo should ensue” lololol

Oh jeez…WHY did this actually catch my eye? THAT is the question. haha

MyNewtBoobs's avatar

@talljasperman But then what of the naturally occurring poo? If you make artificial poo to fertilize and don’t use the natural stuff, you’ve got tons and tons of poo doing nothing but being nasty.

TheBot's avatar

@papayalily Some people like poo though. In very twisted ways. I think if you were to start creating poo mechanically, a natural poo market would emerge, with distribution largely supported by sex shops.

talljasperman's avatar

@papayalily I guess when we have a poo shortage then the AP Artifical poo will have a market…

TheBot's avatar

@Coloma Lol perhaps it was the rhyme? ^^

mrrich724's avatar

@Ltryptophan

Let me know how much you offer @Captain_Fantasy for the poo, I’ll sell mine to you for less, guaranteed.

Ltryptophan's avatar

It’s not like turning lead into gold you know…

Coloma's avatar

@TheBot

Hmmmm…you couldn’t be the french student that I gave all my leftover hardcore chinese new years fireworks to on the Taipei metro last month could you? lolololol

Traveling in Taiwan during Chinese New Year…met this great french kid on the metro, gave him a box of morters! lololol

MyNewtBoobs's avatar

@talljasperman When there is no more natural poo, there will be no more living beings. So no market will emerge.

Ltryptophan's avatar

You know that scene in The Graduate where the guy is like, “one word, plastics”....

One word “poo”

TheBot's avatar

@Coloma Lol no sorry, although I am a great French kid, I have never been to Taiwan…which is too bad. I have to go there one day, it looks amazing.

Ivan's avatar

Eat artificial food.

Jude's avatar

I know how to make real pooh.

Dr_Lawrence's avatar

In this era of economic strife, clearly we must be prepared to innovate to deal with shortages of all kinds of shit!

Sariperana's avatar

This is the best question ever! I have no intelligent answer… But I always thought ‘shit just happens’

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