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[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

To add on to this, vultures stomach acid pH ranges between 0 and 1.

So unless you're also modifying the stomach and gut tissue to be able to withstand hydrochloric acid I'm pretty sure that (if successful, which is a big if) that person just dies.

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, our stomach acid is hydrocloric acid. Just ours isn't nearly as concentrated.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

Considerably less so, but yes I should have specified the concentration

[–] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Vulture pH is closer to 0.2, ours is closer to 2.

it's 10x more acidic than ours, so yeah, we would need to probably refine the entire digestive system

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 12 points 1 week ago

~100x it's a logarithmic scale