kind of a dick move to leave your friend in a wheelchair when you’re jesus
This seems like a XKCD / Randall Munroe “What if” kind of question. I.e., how long would a person survive if all of the water inside them was turned into wine?
A quick search suggests that blood is 80% water. Turning that into wine at a weak concentration of 5.5% results in around at 14.5% BAC which is over 10 times greater than the highest ever recorded, so it would be certainly lethal.
Wine is 80-90% water, but all that alcohol and other flavor compounds directly in your bloodstream would not be good.
Yeah, but how long before I croak?!?!? I need to know now!
You somehow didn’t answer the question, and the thing you said instead is completely obvious to anyone.
If there’s a cousin of Jesus that turns people’s brains into porridge, you’ve certainly been on the receiving end of that power.
Probably 0.00 seconds.
That’s what I’m talking about. OK then.
To be specific, it’d likely immediately fuck up the electrical signals in the brain, thus killing the brain.
That’s an understatement, it would also add a bunch of alcohol and all kinds of sugars and proteins inside every single cell. I bet that would instantly mess up every single biological process.
What if all the water turned to wine at 1 standard drink per hour
Seconds as wine amd water do not have the same consistency. Your blood cells won’t move effectively enough and a BAC of 6% is extremely fatal as most will die at .6%
Can Jesus turn the water in wine into wine?
Jesus invented brandy.
Wait, is that what brandy is?
Wine is 80-90% water. So that can be turned into wine with a wine base. And so forth. What is the end result?
Ethanol poisoning apparently
Ethanol with grape flavouring
Port.
Better quality version:
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People have said the fact is derived from experiment done on live human subjects by the WW2 Japanese torture unit, Unit 731.
Reminds me of when someone made the same observation in Avatar: the Last Airbender about waterbenders.
(Except in that one, the observation wasn’t from online comedians - it was a fridge horror episode in the show)
The show directly addressed this with blood bending, maybe not as viscerally as I’ve seen online but it definitely did. Like if water benders can build enormous ice walls they’re definitely the most dangerous benders in Avatar. They could absolutely rip a person’s soft tissues off their bones if they tried. It’s just seen as so morally wrong that few benders even think about it. Like how we generally view mutilating a body in our societies or other strong taboos.
Earth benders can do the same with the iron in blood
Air benders can blow up your lungs
Firebenders can remove the heat from your body or boil your blood
The iron quantity in blood is actually very low. And when the thing is made up entirely out of iron, then also the benders can be as free with them as they are with earth
Here’s my alternate suggestion BONE BENDING. Bones are just huge chunks of mineral so must be free game.
The iron in blood is in hemoglobin, the stuff you need to exchange oxygen. Suddenly ripping all of that out wouldn’t necessarily cause a lot of physical trauma. But the person will now immediately asphyxiate while feeling everything as they struggle to breath with no relief.
“Bone Bending” sounds like a euphemism for something else…
No one ever said it had good writing
Which makes no sense considering there’s a war going on. The fire nation goes around burning ppl alive. The last thing I would care about is the moral high road when my opponent genocided a bunch of monks.
Geneva suggestion
Book spoiler; go read the books. Bending has less of the kid friendly filter
The Rise of Kyoshi is a masterpiece.
Also reminds me of the lactokinetic in Misfits. He appeared harmless, but if you had consumed any dairy products that were still in your body, he could kill you instantly.
To be fair, if he is good at his powers, he can probably turn just enough to have the person pass out without alcohol poisoning.
This is actually (spoilers for terrible movie Scales: Mermaids Are Real) the climax of the movie Scales. Mermaids can control water and their blood heals people in that movie, so hunters are trying to get their blood and then one guy tries a last ditch bad guy move and the main character pulls all the water out of his body and he horrifically melts.
Kind of made me side with the hunters at that point it’s a horrifying power.
woah Jesus is a water bender??
I bet it would take a long time for that body to rot.
I didn’t see that coming. Nice surprise at the end.
Shame all his enemies are demon type who are immune to blood attacks, of course he can perform the cleansing ritual that has advantage against demon types casting possess so he isn’t completely useless it’s still a waste of a spell slot.
I’d lead with the whole resurrection thing.
Miss when superheroes had vague wording in their powers, leap great distances could scale up and down , mean anything
So you’re nostalgic for the Golden age? How old are you?
thats just most of what they had in the library growing up, 25 lol
Never been impressed by the “water to wine” miracle.
My S/O can turn anything into whine.
Did you have to help a chicken cross the road making that joke?
