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The Equal Justice Initiative is building a memorial for lynching victims — and it’s about time.

The Equal Justice Initiative announced on Tuesday that it will build the first-ever national memorial to lynching victims in Montgomery, Alabama. Titled “Memorial to Peace and Justice,” the EJI project will sit on six acres of land that used to be a public housing project in Montgomery. 

The structure will include the thousands of lynching victims’ names on concrete columns, which will represent hundreds of U.S. counties where the acts took place. The memorial will also coincide with the opening of a museum.

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Dungeons and Dragons! day 2.. 100 days, 100 Drawings. 5/100. “BEHOLD!”

This subs it up, I think.

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what the fuck ethan

I wish i had a context for this. But I really dont.

I was all ready to “um, actually” this, but, um, actually there’s about 3-4 grams of iron in a person, which x400 is 1.2-1.6kg, which is a smallish but not unreasonable sword. So. Math checks out.

How would you extract the iron, though? The more practical solution would be to kill a mere hundred men, then mix 1 part blood with 3 parts standard molten iron, imo. Cheaper and faster, while still retaining the edge that only evil magic can give you.

Or, you could just make the sword of iron, and then use the blood to temper the blade.

1.2 to 1.6 kilograms is a perfectly reasonable large sword.  Your average longsword was 1.1–1.8 kg and I don’t even remember if that’s including the weight of the hilt, guard, and pommel or just the blade.  Your more classic “knight sword” was a mere 1.1 kilograms on average; the blood of 400 men is more than enough.

This is using the comparatively crappy metallurgy of medieval Europe and their meh iron swords.  Move east to, say, contemporary Iran and make a scimitar using high carbon steel (~2%) for a .75 kilogram blade and you only need the blood of about 225 men.

So putting my thoughts in on this… because how could I not.

So you’ve exsanguinated your 400 guys to get the iron for your sword. Cool. But now you have 400 bodies lying around.

Why not put those to good use and cremate them. Use the carbon from those 400 bodies (you won’t need all of them) and now you can make a nice mid-high carbon steel sword.

Now you have a sword forged with the blood of your enemies AND strengthened with their bones.

Tumblr is all about dismantling oppressive power structures with the help of a sword forged from the blood and bones of your defeated enemies

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Okay but seriously, how would you extract usable iron from a corpse? I believe that there’s a way, it just isn’t at all obvious to me what it is.

Turn it into a plasma and put the atoms thru a magnetic deflection field similar to a mass spectrometer and capture the iron isotopes. This is actually used for uranium enrichment and sorting atoms that differ by atomic number would be way easier.

Probably a cheaper way, though.

You will encounter tremendous difficulty trying to do that with (70kg * 400 bodies) = 28000kg of meat though, trying to get that 1kg of iron, compared to refining a much higher ratio of desirable uranium/wrong isotope uranium.

No, it would still be way easier. With Uranium you’re separating atoms with the same charge but slightly different mass. This is the entire reason why enrichment is such a huge expensive undertaking. Whereas the things you’re separating here are sorted by charge, and you can discard everything into a common collector for lower, and another for higher, and only differentiate around what you’re looking for. (Which is a lot of other useful metals for your evil metallurgy needs.)

Magnetic fields will only differentiate things with different mass-to-charge ratios, right? By that metric, iron-56 is harder to separate from carbon-13 than U-235 is from U-238. And there’s enough carbon in a person that the C-13 is going to outweigh the iron.

Gas chromatography on thousands of liters of blood is a silly idea. At a minimum you can isolate the red blood cells physically, probably isolate the hemoglobin and then iron chemically. In fact, just heating/burning apparently gets you straight to iron oxide. www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=17485

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