Dots!
Submitted 2 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
uservoid1@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I was about to say that in the 40s and 50s someone
probablytaste it.Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Zomg, where are all the warning labels???
boydster@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The best way to tell precisely how spicy your rock is, is to taste it. That’s just basic science, if you ask me.
Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Given that lead acetate is sweet, would plutonium acetate do the same?
anyone wants to help me set up a charity where we give “last meals” to terminal patients using toxic ingredients just for them to describe how they taste?
razorcandy@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Fun fact: a gram of plutonium contains about 20 billion calories. Yum.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
And it goes straight to my hips. By which I mean the bone marrow in my pelvis.
pticrix@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
These hips don’t lie : you got cancer
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Hey, sexy bone-marrow pelvis, shake them atomic gains!
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why the pelvis specifically? How did it get there? What were you doing with it?
frank@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
If you eat just one bite you’ll never have to eat again for the rest of your life!
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 2 months ago
Not dietal calories.
The calorie numbers we assign to food, measure how much energy our body extracts from them when eaten.
In this context, plutonium is closer to 0
atomicorange@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Technically it measures how much you can heat up a known volume of water if you burn the food. We have no way of measuring how much of that energy released by combustion actually gets absorbed and translated to ATP in the body, but it’s the best estimation of the relative energy content of foods.
There’s some carbohydrates, proteins, and fats that our bodies don’t seem to convert to energy (or only partially convert) but still contain calories because they’re combustible. Sugar alcohols, fiber, etc.
Plutonium doesn’t combust, but it would heat up water in a calorimeter. Really the test method’s applicability kind of falls apart when you start testing undigestible materials.
socsa@piefed.social 2 months ago
This is actually an issue with food calories as well. Wood shavings give a high reading in a bomb calorimeter but you can't process them into energy. Same with lots of fiber. And ethanol, in some cases.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Equivalent-level of fun fact: 1 gram of hay contains that much calories too!
JillyB@beehaw.org 2 months ago
No wonder cows are so fat
BrazenSigilos@ttrpg.network 2 months ago
The highest calorie last meal
diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Happy cake day!
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Technically, this is processed cake. Yellow cake that is.
cosecantphi@hexbear.net 2 months ago
nah, this is just the appetizer to a big bowl of pasta made out of antimatter.
dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Antipasti
lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 months ago
We need a cosmological law dictating harmful to humans = boring-looking. I mean, it isn’t just plutonium, look at uranium yellowcake! It’s lemon flavouring!
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
that looks like a sponge x3
robocall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It looks like the underside of a microfiber towel
lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Yellowcake, sponge… lemon flavoured sponge cake?
PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 2 months ago
SpongeBomb SpallatePants
21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
I like how all these pictures include the radiation fucking up the photo.
ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Jayjader@jlai.lu 2 months ago
New Pride Flag for the irradiated wastelands just stopped!
TheBat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Square pringles 😋
logicbomb@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Isn’t it just that color because it’s hot? Like, if you cooled those off to room temperature, wouldn’t they be metallic gray?
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Cooling down means it’s breaking down and no longer plutonium.
logicbomb@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m talking about thermally cooling it down. If you put it in a freezer it will cool down, but the nuclear process will not speed up.
IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s why they have it in a frying pan
ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 2 months ago
just take a cheese grater to it to make smaller pieces smh
houndeyes@toast.ooo 2 months ago
RoabeArt@hexbear.net 2 months ago
You mean plutonium doesn’t look like a vial of cherry flavored cough syrup suspended in a larger vial of water?
rockyTron@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Kinda, in solution different oxidation states make pretty colors… 1000078594
MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah. That looks like something Codyslab will do…
vivalapivo@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Wtf, no, you should not lick boron, fucking ever. Go lick a piece of lead, it’s better for your health
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Wish we had this in chemistry
purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 2 months ago
According to your table, it’s not as bad as that, just not a good idea.
ArtemisimetrA@lemm.ee 2 months ago
The fact that Thorium and Uranium are just “probably not a good idea” makes me think that the scale is based on licking like an ore that contains them rather than the pure element
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
In order to lick something at the very least it needs to be liquid, or better yet, solid.
Trying to kick hydrogen, with this in mind, will be the last lick you ever do in your life
expatriado@lemmy.world 2 months ago
if you can wait a few million years, after few decay steps it turns into lead, which is known to be sweet
snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 2 months ago
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
This whole image is metal as fuck \m/
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Yes, it does look delicious.
But I can’t help but think about this being the consequences of dying everything we eat unholy colors. Maybe radioactive material wouldn’t be so tasty looking if we didn’t give kids candy that looks like radioactive material.
WelcomeBear@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Counterpoint: fruit
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Even oranges aren’t neon orange
Crispycrebs@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What would happen if you played hockey with that?
Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
It is for sure delicious, but those who tested it didn’t say it
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 months ago
Deliciously ever-hot orange pie
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Forbidden gum drop
groolthedemon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You only get one chance to find out!
robocall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
What do the dots taste like?
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
It’ll kill ya in loads of inventive and horrible ways, but sure, you can give it a try!
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I mean, you can heat any old rock & make it look like that … what I’m saying is that every rock, when heated to like 500+°C, will gain orange flavour!!
tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I wanna taste that blue Cherenkov tang
SippyCup@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Evidently plutonium just tastes metallic. And radium is flavorless.
What I’m saying is people have tasted these things.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 months ago
The food colouring they add to the orange juice (from those pods) makes it actually taste better!
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I wanted to say the same - that blue color reminds me of blueberry with some mint for freshness!