Vanta Black
I’m gambling that the experience of it would mitigate how much of a pain in the ass the repercussions would be.
Edit: I suppose I ought to have looked before, but this appears to be not the healthiest decision (who’d have though‽). Maybe we’ll go with some kind of closest equivalent nontoxic paint?
Vantablack isn’t really paint, it’s a coating of nanotubes the size of an atom. I wonder what that would feel like.
Yeah, after I looked at it a bit and saw that exposure to/inhaling nanotubes probably isn’t the greatest idea I figured nontoxic paint was the next go to.
I wanna know what it feels like though :(
It’s also grown on aluminum rather than applied as a paint IIRC. You’ll have to go with basic hardware store stuff if you want to go for a dip, probably.
Nice interrobang.
I had no idea a single symbol existed for an interrobang?!
It absolutely does‽ Just get your keyboard to auto replace an exclamation and a question mark next to each other into an interrobang.
There’s also ⸮ which was a (very) early attempt at what /s now is.
On the morbidly curious side of things, I do wonder what such a person looks like. You would just notice the eyes and the hair. Everything else would just be stark contrast.
There’s also the whole, “went vanta black face” issue
Vanta black face is only 2d racism.Which is a measurable amount, but incomparable to 3d racism.
The unit analysis checks out.
Very fine charcoal powder maybe (and self-contained breathing apparatus).
Heavy water - like water, just heavier.
What dilution? 25% makes you sterile and 50% kills you after a week of drinking it
Don’t eat your bath salts. Don’t drink your bathwater.
As a general rule: Just don’t.
but its me soup, how can I resist?
What happens if I make a me espresso using me soup?
Isn’t that what a lefty-cappuccino is? (urbandictionary…)
You have to have 25% and 50% in your body fluids for it to happen, if you drink a glass of 50% heavy water you won’t drop dead a week later.
Wait, would it work as a contraceptive, then?
Elon his blood. 6L is enough.
I think 4L is enough for him to go into shock
I just want to be sure.
Custard
Y tho
4kicks
Seems like a criminal waste of beer. Unless that’s Bud Light.
oh ho my friend, you should visit a beer bath spa
To me a beer bath would be about as appealing as a toothpaste enema - and there’s probably a spa where you can get those too - but to each their own.
haha, I am very curious now
Heinz Baked Beans.
no regrets?
It seems that you need to go watch Tommy: A Rock Opera immediately
Oh I’m a huge fan.
Baked Beans
Excuse you, this isn’t unconventional at all, 69,000,000 Brits do it every morning
Steve Allen on his TV show in the 60s used to occasionally get into bathtubs full of weird stuff. The one I remember offhand was oatmeal.
I would happily do oatmeal
Homeopathic sleeping remedy.
That’s just water. :|
That’s the point
Oxygen
Would the temperature be reasonable for a human in liquid form?
At 1 bar the boiling point of oxygen is 90.19 K (−182.96 °C, or the temperature of a banana when thrown into liquid oxygen, in freedom units) so lower than this up to freezing point (54.36 K, −218.79 °C) is liquid form. So it should be comfortable for a human to bath in, with the current world tension, clown leaders and right wing extremism on the rise.
sounds quite lovely in contrast
No. It even passes the critical point at just 5 bars, in case anyone was trying to get clever with high pressures.
Also, skin becomes very flammable in pure oxygen (at atmospheric pressure), in case you’d prefer that kind of burn.
There certainly wouldn’t be any regrets (because you would not have time to do so before death).
A non-Newtonian fluid
Gallium? It’s solid at room temperature, but your own body heat will melt it, so you lie down on a solid block of metal and then slowly sink into a melting puddle in the middle of it. It’s non-toxic and six times denser than water so you’d be really floaty on it too
150 litres of Gallium would cost $130800
Hmm! Quite the investment vehicle!
(I’m now just picturing tech bros smugly smiling with bathtubs full of gallium)We need to convince the billionaires that this is the cool thing for them to do…
Well that does make it quite regrettable for most people, I suppose
the physical description also applies to butter
Missed opportunity for a Saw film
Sounds like something out of a horror film. Your body heat melts you into the material. Then, as heat gets distributed and you have more skin contact, you are no longer generating enough heat to keep the gallium melted.
You either suffocate as the material solidifies around your abdomen or you freeze to death as the material pulls enough heat from you to kill you.
This was my first thought. Terrifying! Claustrophobia has entered the chat.
Actually because of the density you wont be able to sink more than about 1/6th of your body into it.
So, if you laid on a large enough block of it, you’d have the perfect shape to make a mold for a customized foam mattress?
I suspect there’s an easier choice, if a dense bed is all you need. Every liter of the stuff goes for 872 USD as of 2019. And that’s not even bad, considering how rare it is and how great the semiconductors you can make with it are. It’s neighbor germanium is another digit up.
Edit: Wow, somebody already linked this exact thing elsewhere.
I feel like this is worth uploading to Lemmy. It’s an image, apparently from October 1972’s National Geographic, of a Spanish miner floating on mercury:
It’s denser than lead, so he’s just sitting on the top of it like a block of styrofoam would on water. The effect of gallium would not be quite so pronounced, but same idea. This is also why you can’t really drown in quicksand unless you work at it (which, if you completely panic, isn’t impossible).
Meanwhile, you sink straight to the bottom in anything like oil, with no hope of swimming.
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Shit
You don’t want it to get in your body (holes, cuts etc…)
It might act like a giant heatsink tho, making your body cool out as soon as it starts melting and creating proper surface contact. But chilling in 20°C water is also not really an issue so i guess it depends on the thermal conductivity of the skin/gallium interface.
Just use something similar with a lower melting point. Mercury or cesium both do. You’re welcome!
There’s alloys with lower melting points, here’s one that’s 281K/8°C
You’ll completely float on mercury, and cesium does no good to your body. Like, at all.
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Thanks i will try it out later :)
I’m sure an Infinite ice bath has an appeal to someone
Astroglide
Oatmilk, Tea, Cum, Flavored water (no sugar pls)
one of these is not really like the others is it?
Flavored water does feel like cheating. It’s really just water.
as long as theres no sugar in it. sucks to get… sticky.
Cum flavoured water could be a big seller
Coconut penis
It’s a hard sell though.
Milk ?
lmao, the most rational answer in this whole thread
Cannabis oil
now that’d be a journey
