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I have invented a large machine that allows me to create monsters out of blood. These monsters are called golems and are very powerful. My plan is to produce a large number of them to include in my army for world conquest. To accomplish this, I must acquire live humans to sacrifice to this machine.
The process requires a large amount of blood in order to create one golem. The human body is capable of losing up to 40% of blood before immediately dying from hemorrhaging, which works out to around 3 to 4 pints of blood. Thirteen humans at a time (the max amount) are placed inside this machine and hooked up to it through a series of tubes and wires. They are periodically drained to the maximum that their bodies can take, being kept alive by artificial processes. This provides up to 50 pints in total, after which they are given time to recover their blood supply until the next drain. This procedure happens until a victim expires and need to be replaced by new materials.
I want to create the largest amount of golems I can get while keeping each batch of victims alive for as long as possible to get the most mileage out of them. How can I make this happen?
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I have invented a large machine that allows me to create monsters out of blood. These monsters are called golems and are very powerful. My plan is to produce a large number of them to include in my army for world conquest. To accomplish this, I must acquire live humans to sacrifice to this machine.
The process requires a large amount of blood in order to create one golem. The human body is capable of losing up to 40% of blood before immediately dying from hemorrhaging, which works out to around 3 to 4 pints of blood. Thirteen humans at a time (the max amount) are placed inside this machine and hooked up to it through a series of tubes and wires. They are periodically drained to the maximum that their bodies can take, being kept alive by artificial processes. This provides up to 50 pints in total, after which they are given time to recover their blood supply until the next drain. This procedure happens until a victim expires and need to be replaced by new materials.
I want to create the largest amount of golems I can get while keeping each batch of victims alive for as long as possible to get the most mileage out of them. How can I make this happen?
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Is there a particular reason why they need to be drained to death? Harvesting a smaller amount from a larger group is probably loads easier.
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I have invented a large machine that allows me to create monsters out of blood. These monsters are called golems and are very powerful. My plan is to produce a large number of them to include in my army for world conquest. To accomplish this, I must acquire live humans to sacrifice to this machine.
The process requires a large amount of blood in order to create one golem. The human body is capable of losing up to 40% of blood before immediately dying from hemorrhaging, which works out to around 3 to 4 pints of blood. Thirteen humans at a time (the max amount) are placed inside this machine and hooked up to it through a series of tubes and wires. They are periodically drained to the maximum that their bodies can take, being kept alive by artificial processes. This provides up to 50 pints in total, after which they are given time to recover their blood supply until the next drain. This procedure happens until a victim expires and need to be replaced by new materials.
I want to create the largest amount of golems I can get while keeping each batch of victims alive for as long as possible to get the most mileage out of them. How can I make this happen?
reality-check biology blood
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I have invented a large machine that allows me to create monsters out of blood. These monsters are called golems and are very powerful. My plan is to produce a large number of them to include in my army for world conquest. To accomplish this, I must acquire live humans to sacrifice to this machine.
The process requires a large amount of blood in order to create one golem. The human body is capable of losing up to 40% of blood before immediately dying from hemorrhaging, which works out to around 3 to 4 pints of blood. Thirteen humans at a time (the max amount) are placed inside this machine and hooked up to it through a series of tubes and wires. They are periodically drained to the maximum that their bodies can take, being kept alive by artificial processes. This provides up to 50 pints in total, after which they are given time to recover their blood supply until the next drain. This procedure happens until a victim expires and need to be replaced by new materials.
I want to create the largest amount of golems I can get while keeping each batch of victims alive for as long as possible to get the most mileage out of them. How can I make this happen?
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reality-check biology blood
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Brythan
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Incognito
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Brythan
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Incognito
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Brythan
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Brythan
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Brythan
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Is there a particular reason why they need to be drained to death? Harvesting a smaller amount from a larger group is probably loads easier.
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Is there a particular reason why they need to be drained to death? Harvesting a smaller amount from a larger group is probably loads easier.
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Is there a particular reason why they need to be drained to death? Harvesting a smaller amount from a larger group is probably loads easier.
– Cadence
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Is there a particular reason why they need to be drained to death? Harvesting a smaller amount from a larger group is probably loads easier.
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Actually, what you want to do here is not drain the blood out of a person, but replace it with something else until the person's natural systems start to reproduce what has been lost.
In other words, you need artificial blood.
Enter a rather interesting liquid - Fluorocarbon Emulsion.
This stuff has reared its head in the past when talking about fluid breathing systems for deep diving. It's a liquid that is capable of storing and releasing oxygen and therefore during a deep dive, would prevent pressure issues when trying to store air as a gas when under the enormous pressure of a deep sea dive.
The thing is, as early as 1999 it was being investigated for another purpose; artificial blood. IN this scenario, what you'd do is start draining out the blood, but replacing it as quickly with this emulsion. Under the pressures that oil pipes get to, the fluids don't tend to mix all that much which is why you can use a single pipe to transport super, unleaded, diesel, whatever. (There is a bit of mixing, but a certain volume of the mixed fluids either gets sold as one or the other, or discarded.)
In any event, you might be able to do the same thing in the human body, especially if you're draining from one area and filling from another (but I don't know enough about the fluid dynamics of the cardio system to state that categorically) but in any event, you'd get a LOT of blood out of someone and keep them alive.
The other piece of good news is that if you start putting in a lot of Ringer's Solution after that, the lack of hemoglobin should trigger a response in the marrow to start over producing red blood cells, and you can go again later down the track when your person has fully recovered from the ordeal.
Of course, what we don't know is what makes the blood useful for monster building. If it's only the capacity to store and release oxygen, perhaps you could use the oxygenated fluorocarbon emulsion directly? Easier to manufacture and harvest, with less risk to your subjects. Just saying.
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Open a blood bank and pay people for blood. People can give half a litre per donation and then go home.
It's much cheaper than trying to keep them alive using machines.
Build it in the poor areas and they will queue up waiting to give it to you.
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Can he still go "Muhahaha!"? Because I think that is a big draw for an evil genius (is "genius" too strong here?" but evil laughter seems less appropriate if you are running a blood bank. Your business manager might ask you to close your office door.
– Willk
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If your evil lab is next door, people won't hear your laugh and you can run the plumbing through the wall.
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No Near Death Draining Required - this is Business.
Ask the Blood Donation Clinic near you.
Thirteen humans at a time (the max amount) are placed inside this machine and hooked up to it through a series of tubes and wires. They are periodically drained to the maximum that their bodies can take, being kept alive by artificial processes.
Very bad idea. First off, it's just not necessary. You can use a hundred people or a thousand and there's no reason to get all the blood at the same time !
Blood is stored and used quite normally by hospitals and can be kept for period of longer than a month when cooled.
When donating blood typically the amount varies from place to place, but would typically not be much more than 500 mL (about a pint for you people still stuck with the backward Imperial system :-) ). No need to kill the donor.
This provides up to 50 pints in total
So 50 people required for your system.
Blood donors should have replaced the lost blood completely within two months and you can base your requirements on that level of safe production.
This also places some limits on what's practical in terms of nearly draining the life out of people. The more you take the longer (and harder) it is for the body to replace the lost blood. The more you take the more vulnerable the "donor" is to disease and medical complications.
In the US about 43,000 pints of donated blood are used every day (more always needed, BTW :-) ). That's a potential production rate (without much difficulty) of 860 new golems per day for you and not a single human had to be killed !
Now you can probably do better (see below) that this rate of production without any problems, but even with that rate you have an army of over 300,000 golems in just one year. The US army is about 2.5 million active enlisted and 3.5 million reserve.
And this thing can Pay For Itself !
My plan is to produce a large number of them to include in my army for world conquest.
There's not even a need to force people to do this. If you're producing golems you are producing workers. OK, eventually you're going to use them to take over the world, but this is one case where it doesn't pay to advertise !
What you do is start a business paying people for normal blood donations (maybe even supplying hospitals for free for PR purposes) and funding this by renting out golems for all those tasks it's illegal to use child labor or slaves for. These golems are expendable anyway, so hey, the odd death isn't a big problem for anyone.
People will happily donate blood as normal (if not more) when being paid for it and there's no need for chains or kidnappings or enslavement. No fuss, no suspicious government investigations.
Heck, the military would actually welcome golems for hire. You might even get the idiots in the military to train your golems for you this way !
The possibilities are endless.
You're aiming at about 6 million golems to defeat any army on Earth (do these things need weapons ?). Well if you get the entire world donating blood at normal levels, and extrapolating from US population levels, you could get something like 20,000 golems a day ! That's an army of 7.3 million in a year !
Heck, why take over the world with an army at all ? This has the potential for a real money earner.
Problems of Management ...
After you made the first year's batch of golems you have a private workforce of 7.3 million golems.
And just what do these things eat ? Do they need housing ? Do they require medical care ? Education ? Training ?
Renting them to the US military sounds attractive. Those suckers in the Pentagon will pay for all that stuff, train them, teach them to follow orders and pay you for this !
Man, don't ya love the military-industrial complex ! :-)
But if they don't (bribe here, donation there) then you need to use the golem army to work for a living until you've enough resources to launch your attack.
Of you could just issue shares and make even more money that way !
But if you insist on ruining a good money making scheme, then right up until it's too late to stop you, you are the smiling face of Golem and Blood Inc. (OK, the name needs work :-) ).
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Actually, what you want to do here is not drain the blood out of a person, but replace it with something else until the person's natural systems start to reproduce what has been lost.
In other words, you need artificial blood.
Enter a rather interesting liquid - Fluorocarbon Emulsion.
This stuff has reared its head in the past when talking about fluid breathing systems for deep diving. It's a liquid that is capable of storing and releasing oxygen and therefore during a deep dive, would prevent pressure issues when trying to store air as a gas when under the enormous pressure of a deep sea dive.
The thing is, as early as 1999 it was being investigated for another purpose; artificial blood. IN this scenario, what you'd do is start draining out the blood, but replacing it as quickly with this emulsion. Under the pressures that oil pipes get to, the fluids don't tend to mix all that much which is why you can use a single pipe to transport super, unleaded, diesel, whatever. (There is a bit of mixing, but a certain volume of the mixed fluids either gets sold as one or the other, or discarded.)
In any event, you might be able to do the same thing in the human body, especially if you're draining from one area and filling from another (but I don't know enough about the fluid dynamics of the cardio system to state that categorically) but in any event, you'd get a LOT of blood out of someone and keep them alive.
The other piece of good news is that if you start putting in a lot of Ringer's Solution after that, the lack of hemoglobin should trigger a response in the marrow to start over producing red blood cells, and you can go again later down the track when your person has fully recovered from the ordeal.
Of course, what we don't know is what makes the blood useful for monster building. If it's only the capacity to store and release oxygen, perhaps you could use the oxygenated fluorocarbon emulsion directly? Easier to manufacture and harvest, with less risk to your subjects. Just saying.
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Actually, what you want to do here is not drain the blood out of a person, but replace it with something else until the person's natural systems start to reproduce what has been lost.
In other words, you need artificial blood.
Enter a rather interesting liquid - Fluorocarbon Emulsion.
This stuff has reared its head in the past when talking about fluid breathing systems for deep diving. It's a liquid that is capable of storing and releasing oxygen and therefore during a deep dive, would prevent pressure issues when trying to store air as a gas when under the enormous pressure of a deep sea dive.
The thing is, as early as 1999 it was being investigated for another purpose; artificial blood. IN this scenario, what you'd do is start draining out the blood, but replacing it as quickly with this emulsion. Under the pressures that oil pipes get to, the fluids don't tend to mix all that much which is why you can use a single pipe to transport super, unleaded, diesel, whatever. (There is a bit of mixing, but a certain volume of the mixed fluids either gets sold as one or the other, or discarded.)
In any event, you might be able to do the same thing in the human body, especially if you're draining from one area and filling from another (but I don't know enough about the fluid dynamics of the cardio system to state that categorically) but in any event, you'd get a LOT of blood out of someone and keep them alive.
The other piece of good news is that if you start putting in a lot of Ringer's Solution after that, the lack of hemoglobin should trigger a response in the marrow to start over producing red blood cells, and you can go again later down the track when your person has fully recovered from the ordeal.
Of course, what we don't know is what makes the blood useful for monster building. If it's only the capacity to store and release oxygen, perhaps you could use the oxygenated fluorocarbon emulsion directly? Easier to manufacture and harvest, with less risk to your subjects. Just saying.
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Actually, what you want to do here is not drain the blood out of a person, but replace it with something else until the person's natural systems start to reproduce what has been lost.
In other words, you need artificial blood.
Enter a rather interesting liquid - Fluorocarbon Emulsion.
This stuff has reared its head in the past when talking about fluid breathing systems for deep diving. It's a liquid that is capable of storing and releasing oxygen and therefore during a deep dive, would prevent pressure issues when trying to store air as a gas when under the enormous pressure of a deep sea dive.
The thing is, as early as 1999 it was being investigated for another purpose; artificial blood. IN this scenario, what you'd do is start draining out the blood, but replacing it as quickly with this emulsion. Under the pressures that oil pipes get to, the fluids don't tend to mix all that much which is why you can use a single pipe to transport super, unleaded, diesel, whatever. (There is a bit of mixing, but a certain volume of the mixed fluids either gets sold as one or the other, or discarded.)
In any event, you might be able to do the same thing in the human body, especially if you're draining from one area and filling from another (but I don't know enough about the fluid dynamics of the cardio system to state that categorically) but in any event, you'd get a LOT of blood out of someone and keep them alive.
The other piece of good news is that if you start putting in a lot of Ringer's Solution after that, the lack of hemoglobin should trigger a response in the marrow to start over producing red blood cells, and you can go again later down the track when your person has fully recovered from the ordeal.
Of course, what we don't know is what makes the blood useful for monster building. If it's only the capacity to store and release oxygen, perhaps you could use the oxygenated fluorocarbon emulsion directly? Easier to manufacture and harvest, with less risk to your subjects. Just saying.
answered 1 hour ago
Tim B II
21.7k54791
Actually, what you want to do here is not drain the blood out of a person, but replace it with something else until the person's natural systems start to reproduce what has been lost.
In other words, you need artificial blood.
Enter a rather interesting liquid - Fluorocarbon Emulsion.
This stuff has reared its head in the past when talking about fluid breathing systems for deep diving. It's a liquid that is capable of storing and releasing oxygen and therefore during a deep dive, would prevent pressure issues when trying to store air as a gas when under the enormous pressure of a deep sea dive.
The thing is, as early as 1999 it was being investigated for another purpose; artificial blood. IN this scenario, what you'd do is start draining out the blood, but replacing it as quickly with this emulsion. Under the pressures that oil pipes get to, the fluids don't tend to mix all that much which is why you can use a single pipe to transport super, unleaded, diesel, whatever. (There is a bit of mixing, but a certain volume of the mixed fluids either gets sold as one or the other, or discarded.)
In any event, you might be able to do the same thing in the human body, especially if you're draining from one area and filling from another (but I don't know enough about the fluid dynamics of the cardio system to state that categorically) but in any event, you'd get a LOT of blood out of someone and keep them alive.
The other piece of good news is that if you start putting in a lot of Ringer's Solution after that, the lack of hemoglobin should trigger a response in the marrow to start over producing red blood cells, and you can go again later down the track when your person has fully recovered from the ordeal.
Of course, what we don't know is what makes the blood useful for monster building. If it's only the capacity to store and release oxygen, perhaps you could use the oxygenated fluorocarbon emulsion directly? Easier to manufacture and harvest, with less risk to your subjects. Just saying.
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Open a blood bank and pay people for blood. People can give half a litre per donation and then go home.
It's much cheaper than trying to keep them alive using machines.
Build it in the poor areas and they will queue up waiting to give it to you.
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Thorne
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Can he still go "Muhahaha!"? Because I think that is a big draw for an evil genius (is "genius" too strong here?" but evil laughter seems less appropriate if you are running a blood bank. Your business manager might ask you to close your office door.
– Willk
7 mins ago
If your evil lab is next door, people won't hear your laugh and you can run the plumbing through the wall.
– Thorne
2 mins ago
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Open a blood bank and pay people for blood. People can give half a litre per donation and then go home.
It's much cheaper than trying to keep them alive using machines.
Build it in the poor areas and they will queue up waiting to give it to you.
answered 11 mins ago
Thorne
12.3k31736
Can he still go "Muhahaha!"? Because I think that is a big draw for an evil genius (is "genius" too strong here?" but evil laughter seems less appropriate if you are running a blood bank. Your business manager might ask you to close your office door.
– Willk
7 mins ago
If your evil lab is next door, people won't hear your laugh and you can run the plumbing through the wall.
– Thorne
2 mins ago
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up vote
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Open a blood bank and pay people for blood. People can give half a litre per donation and then go home.
It's much cheaper than trying to keep them alive using machines.
Build it in the poor areas and they will queue up waiting to give it to you.
answered 11 mins ago
Thorne
12.3k31736
Open a blood bank and pay people for blood. People can give half a litre per donation and then go home.
It's much cheaper than trying to keep them alive using machines.
Build it in the poor areas and they will queue up waiting to give it to you.
answered 11 mins ago
Thorne
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answered 11 mins ago
Thorne
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Can he still go "Muhahaha!"? Because I think that is a big draw for an evil genius (is "genius" too strong here?" but evil laughter seems less appropriate if you are running a blood bank. Your business manager might ask you to close your office door.
– Willk
7 mins ago
If your evil lab is next door, people won't hear your laugh and you can run the plumbing through the wall.
– Thorne
2 mins ago
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Can he still go "Muhahaha!"? Because I think that is a big draw for an evil genius (is "genius" too strong here?" but evil laughter seems less appropriate if you are running a blood bank. Your business manager might ask you to close your office door.
– Willk
7 mins ago
If your evil lab is next door, people won't hear your laugh and you can run the plumbing through the wall.
– Thorne
2 mins ago
Can he still go "Muhahaha!"? Because I think that is a big draw for an evil genius (is "genius" too strong here?" but evil laughter seems less appropriate if you are running a blood bank. Your business manager might ask you to close your office door.
– Willk
7 mins ago
Can he still go "Muhahaha!"? Because I think that is a big draw for an evil genius (is "genius" too strong here?" but evil laughter seems less appropriate if you are running a blood bank. Your business manager might ask you to close your office door.
– Willk
7 mins ago
If your evil lab is next door, people won't hear your laugh and you can run the plumbing through the wall.
– Thorne
2 mins ago
If your evil lab is next door, people won't hear your laugh and you can run the plumbing through the wall.
– Thorne
2 mins ago
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No Near Death Draining Required - this is Business.
Ask the Blood Donation Clinic near you.
Thirteen humans at a time (the max amount) are placed inside this machine and hooked up to it through a series of tubes and wires. They are periodically drained to the maximum that their bodies can take, being kept alive by artificial processes.
Very bad idea. First off, it's just not necessary. You can use a hundred people or a thousand and there's no reason to get all the blood at the same time !
Blood is stored and used quite normally by hospitals and can be kept for period of longer than a month when cooled.
When donating blood typically the amount varies from place to place, but would typically not be much more than 500 mL (about a pint for you people still stuck with the backward Imperial system :-) ). No need to kill the donor.
This provides up to 50 pints in total
So 50 people required for your system.
Blood donors should have replaced the lost blood completely within two months and you can base your requirements on that level of safe production.
This also places some limits on what's practical in terms of nearly draining the life out of people. The more you take the longer (and harder) it is for the body to replace the lost blood. The more you take the more vulnerable the "donor" is to disease and medical complications.
In the US about 43,000 pints of donated blood are used every day (more always needed, BTW :-) ). That's a potential production rate (without much difficulty) of 860 new golems per day for you and not a single human had to be killed !
Now you can probably do better (see below) that this rate of production without any problems, but even with that rate you have an army of over 300,000 golems in just one year. The US army is about 2.5 million active enlisted and 3.5 million reserve.
And this thing can Pay For Itself !
My plan is to produce a large number of them to include in my army for world conquest.
There's not even a need to force people to do this. If you're producing golems you are producing workers. OK, eventually you're going to use them to take over the world, but this is one case where it doesn't pay to advertise !
What you do is start a business paying people for normal blood donations (maybe even supplying hospitals for free for PR purposes) and funding this by renting out golems for all those tasks it's illegal to use child labor or slaves for. These golems are expendable anyway, so hey, the odd death isn't a big problem for anyone.
People will happily donate blood as normal (if not more) when being paid for it and there's no need for chains or kidnappings or enslavement. No fuss, no suspicious government investigations.
Heck, the military would actually welcome golems for hire. You might even get the idiots in the military to train your golems for you this way !
The possibilities are endless.
You're aiming at about 6 million golems to defeat any army on Earth (do these things need weapons ?). Well if you get the entire world donating blood at normal levels, and extrapolating from US population levels, you could get something like 20,000 golems a day ! That's an army of 7.3 million in a year !
Heck, why take over the world with an army at all ? This has the potential for a real money earner.
Problems of Management ...
After you made the first year's batch of golems you have a private workforce of 7.3 million golems.
And just what do these things eat ? Do they need housing ? Do they require medical care ? Education ? Training ?
Renting them to the US military sounds attractive. Those suckers in the Pentagon will pay for all that stuff, train them, teach them to follow orders and pay you for this !
Man, don't ya love the military-industrial complex ! :-)
But if they don't (bribe here, donation there) then you need to use the golem army to work for a living until you've enough resources to launch your attack.
Of you could just issue shares and make even more money that way !
But if you insist on ruining a good money making scheme, then right up until it's too late to stop you, you are the smiling face of Golem and Blood Inc. (OK, the name needs work :-) ).
answered 8 mins ago
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No Near Death Draining Required - this is Business.
Ask the Blood Donation Clinic near you.
Thirteen humans at a time (the max amount) are placed inside this machine and hooked up to it through a series of tubes and wires. They are periodically drained to the maximum that their bodies can take, being kept alive by artificial processes.
Very bad idea. First off, it's just not necessary. You can use a hundred people or a thousand and there's no reason to get all the blood at the same time !
Blood is stored and used quite normally by hospitals and can be kept for period of longer than a month when cooled.
When donating blood typically the amount varies from place to place, but would typically not be much more than 500 mL (about a pint for you people still stuck with the backward Imperial system :-) ). No need to kill the donor.
This provides up to 50 pints in total
So 50 people required for your system.
Blood donors should have replaced the lost blood completely within two months and you can base your requirements on that level of safe production.
This also places some limits on what's practical in terms of nearly draining the life out of people. The more you take the longer (and harder) it is for the body to replace the lost blood. The more you take the more vulnerable the "donor" is to disease and medical complications.
In the US about 43,000 pints of donated blood are used every day (more always needed, BTW :-) ). That's a potential production rate (without much difficulty) of 860 new golems per day for you and not a single human had to be killed !
Now you can probably do better (see below) that this rate of production without any problems, but even with that rate you have an army of over 300,000 golems in just one year. The US army is about 2.5 million active enlisted and 3.5 million reserve.
And this thing can Pay For Itself !
My plan is to produce a large number of them to include in my army for world conquest.
There's not even a need to force people to do this. If you're producing golems you are producing workers. OK, eventually you're going to use them to take over the world, but this is one case where it doesn't pay to advertise !
What you do is start a business paying people for normal blood donations (maybe even supplying hospitals for free for PR purposes) and funding this by renting out golems for all those tasks it's illegal to use child labor or slaves for. These golems are expendable anyway, so hey, the odd death isn't a big problem for anyone.
People will happily donate blood as normal (if not more) when being paid for it and there's no need for chains or kidnappings or enslavement. No fuss, no suspicious government investigations.
Heck, the military would actually welcome golems for hire. You might even get the idiots in the military to train your golems for you this way !
The possibilities are endless.
You're aiming at about 6 million golems to defeat any army on Earth (do these things need weapons ?). Well if you get the entire world donating blood at normal levels, and extrapolating from US population levels, you could get something like 20,000 golems a day ! That's an army of 7.3 million in a year !
Heck, why take over the world with an army at all ? This has the potential for a real money earner.
Problems of Management ...
After you made the first year's batch of golems you have a private workforce of 7.3 million golems.
And just what do these things eat ? Do they need housing ? Do they require medical care ? Education ? Training ?
Renting them to the US military sounds attractive. Those suckers in the Pentagon will pay for all that stuff, train them, teach them to follow orders and pay you for this !
Man, don't ya love the military-industrial complex ! :-)
But if they don't (bribe here, donation there) then you need to use the golem army to work for a living until you've enough resources to launch your attack.
Of you could just issue shares and make even more money that way !
But if you insist on ruining a good money making scheme, then right up until it's too late to stop you, you are the smiling face of Golem and Blood Inc. (OK, the name needs work :-) ).
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No Near Death Draining Required - this is Business.
Ask the Blood Donation Clinic near you.
Thirteen humans at a time (the max amount) are placed inside this machine and hooked up to it through a series of tubes and wires. They are periodically drained to the maximum that their bodies can take, being kept alive by artificial processes.
Very bad idea. First off, it's just not necessary. You can use a hundred people or a thousand and there's no reason to get all the blood at the same time !
Blood is stored and used quite normally by hospitals and can be kept for period of longer than a month when cooled.
When donating blood typically the amount varies from place to place, but would typically not be much more than 500 mL (about a pint for you people still stuck with the backward Imperial system :-) ). No need to kill the donor.
This provides up to 50 pints in total
So 50 people required for your system.
Blood donors should have replaced the lost blood completely within two months and you can base your requirements on that level of safe production.
This also places some limits on what's practical in terms of nearly draining the life out of people. The more you take the longer (and harder) it is for the body to replace the lost blood. The more you take the more vulnerable the "donor" is to disease and medical complications.
In the US about 43,000 pints of donated blood are used every day (more always needed, BTW :-) ). That's a potential production rate (without much difficulty) of 860 new golems per day for you and not a single human had to be killed !
Now you can probably do better (see below) that this rate of production without any problems, but even with that rate you have an army of over 300,000 golems in just one year. The US army is about 2.5 million active enlisted and 3.5 million reserve.
And this thing can Pay For Itself !
My plan is to produce a large number of them to include in my army for world conquest.
There's not even a need to force people to do this. If you're producing golems you are producing workers. OK, eventually you're going to use them to take over the world, but this is one case where it doesn't pay to advertise !
What you do is start a business paying people for normal blood donations (maybe even supplying hospitals for free for PR purposes) and funding this by renting out golems for all those tasks it's illegal to use child labor or slaves for. These golems are expendable anyway, so hey, the odd death isn't a big problem for anyone.
People will happily donate blood as normal (if not more) when being paid for it and there's no need for chains or kidnappings or enslavement. No fuss, no suspicious government investigations.
Heck, the military would actually welcome golems for hire. You might even get the idiots in the military to train your golems for you this way !
The possibilities are endless.
You're aiming at about 6 million golems to defeat any army on Earth (do these things need weapons ?). Well if you get the entire world donating blood at normal levels, and extrapolating from US population levels, you could get something like 20,000 golems a day ! That's an army of 7.3 million in a year !
Heck, why take over the world with an army at all ? This has the potential for a real money earner.
Problems of Management ...
After you made the first year's batch of golems you have a private workforce of 7.3 million golems.
And just what do these things eat ? Do they need housing ? Do they require medical care ? Education ? Training ?
Renting them to the US military sounds attractive. Those suckers in the Pentagon will pay for all that stuff, train them, teach them to follow orders and pay you for this !
Man, don't ya love the military-industrial complex ! :-)
But if they don't (bribe here, donation there) then you need to use the golem army to work for a living until you've enough resources to launch your attack.
Of you could just issue shares and make even more money that way !
But if you insist on ruining a good money making scheme, then right up until it's too late to stop you, you are the smiling face of Golem and Blood Inc. (OK, the name needs work :-) ).
answered 8 mins ago
StephenG
11.1k51645
No Near Death Draining Required - this is Business.
Ask the Blood Donation Clinic near you.
Thirteen humans at a time (the max amount) are placed inside this machine and hooked up to it through a series of tubes and wires. They are periodically drained to the maximum that their bodies can take, being kept alive by artificial processes.
Very bad idea. First off, it's just not necessary. You can use a hundred people or a thousand and there's no reason to get all the blood at the same time !
Blood is stored and used quite normally by hospitals and can be kept for period of longer than a month when cooled.
When donating blood typically the amount varies from place to place, but would typically not be much more than 500 mL (about a pint for you people still stuck with the backward Imperial system :-) ). No need to kill the donor.
This provides up to 50 pints in total
So 50 people required for your system.
Blood donors should have replaced the lost blood completely within two months and you can base your requirements on that level of safe production.
This also places some limits on what's practical in terms of nearly draining the life out of people. The more you take the longer (and harder) it is for the body to replace the lost blood. The more you take the more vulnerable the "donor" is to disease and medical complications.
In the US about 43,000 pints of donated blood are used every day (more always needed, BTW :-) ). That's a potential production rate (without much difficulty) of 860 new golems per day for you and not a single human had to be killed !
Now you can probably do better (see below) that this rate of production without any problems, but even with that rate you have an army of over 300,000 golems in just one year. The US army is about 2.5 million active enlisted and 3.5 million reserve.
And this thing can Pay For Itself !
My plan is to produce a large number of them to include in my army for world conquest.
There's not even a need to force people to do this. If you're producing golems you are producing workers. OK, eventually you're going to use them to take over the world, but this is one case where it doesn't pay to advertise !
What you do is start a business paying people for normal blood donations (maybe even supplying hospitals for free for PR purposes) and funding this by renting out golems for all those tasks it's illegal to use child labor or slaves for. These golems are expendable anyway, so hey, the odd death isn't a big problem for anyone.
People will happily donate blood as normal (if not more) when being paid for it and there's no need for chains or kidnappings or enslavement. No fuss, no suspicious government investigations.
Heck, the military would actually welcome golems for hire. You might even get the idiots in the military to train your golems for you this way !
The possibilities are endless.
You're aiming at about 6 million golems to defeat any army on Earth (do these things need weapons ?). Well if you get the entire world donating blood at normal levels, and extrapolating from US population levels, you could get something like 20,000 golems a day ! That's an army of 7.3 million in a year !
Heck, why take over the world with an army at all ? This has the potential for a real money earner.
Problems of Management ...
After you made the first year's batch of golems you have a private workforce of 7.3 million golems.
And just what do these things eat ? Do they need housing ? Do they require medical care ? Education ? Training ?
Renting them to the US military sounds attractive. Those suckers in the Pentagon will pay for all that stuff, train them, teach them to follow orders and pay you for this !
Man, don't ya love the military-industrial complex ! :-)
But if they don't (bribe here, donation there) then you need to use the golem army to work for a living until you've enough resources to launch your attack.
Of you could just issue shares and make even more money that way !
But if you insist on ruining a good money making scheme, then right up until it's too late to stop you, you are the smiling face of Golem and Blood Inc. (OK, the name needs work :-) ).
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Is there a particular reason why they need to be drained to death? Harvesting a smaller amount from a larger group is probably loads easier.
– Cadence
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