Least regrettable but most unconventional liquid to take a bath in?
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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
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Flavored water does feel like cheating. It's really just water.
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Lemon jello.
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Sleepytime tea
Feel like any resulting UTIs would be worth it for the great sleep that bath would bring
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Interesting. Liquid ventilators do use pumps; I guess because, as you say, we can't push the liquid fast enough with our own force. But I think some research setups only fill the lungs and then use a regular oxygen ventilator, so maybe it's not that infeasible to survive in a perfluorodecalin-filled tank for at least a few minutes, before becoming exhausted?
You'd definitely survive longer than something non-oxygenated. I feel like I read a paper that involved a full hour of immersion in animal trials, but I can't be sure now.
The wiki makes it sounds like in medical settings they only fill the lung partway, usually. That would allow CO2 to escape from the top part. The lung is both massively branched and somewhat delicate, so getting enough pumping going in a full lung sounds like it would be very difficult and invasive. CO2 is so rarefied in healthy blood it doesn't take long at all for diffusion to start working backward in any one alveolus.
There's also technology in trials to remove CO2 from the blood separately, which it only as invasive as a dialysis machine. I have no idea if anyone has tried combining them, although you have to assume it'd be an obvious next step.
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Cum flavoured water could be a big seller
Coconut penis
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Cum flavoured water could be a big seller
It’s a hard sell though.
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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.
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nail polish that has been sitting out with the lid partly unscrewed for a week.
Or printer ink. Costs thousands.
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You'd definitely survive longer than something non-oxygenated. I feel like I read a paper that involved a full hour of immersion in animal trials, but I can't be sure now.
The wiki makes it sounds like in medical settings they only fill the lung partway, usually. That would allow CO2 to escape from the top part. The lung is both massively branched and somewhat delicate, so getting enough pumping going in a full lung sounds like it would be very difficult and invasive. CO2 is so rarefied in healthy blood it doesn't take long at all for diffusion to start working backward in any one alveolus.
There's also technology in trials to remove CO2 from the blood separately, which it only as invasive as a dialysis machine. I have no idea if anyone has tried combining them, although you have to assume it'd be an obvious next step.
Thanks, great insight!
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burn the place to the ground would be the most reasonable response
why do you hate Pepsi so much? I like it
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why do you hate Pepsi so much? I like it
it beat me as a child
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nail polish that has been sitting out with the lid partly unscrewed for a week.
Or printer ink. Costs thousands.
nice try nonetheless
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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
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lmao, I wish they dived in
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Lemon jello.
Just before it sets.Like it sets with you in it?
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Cannabis oil
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Cannabis oil
now that'd be a journey
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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.
Cody from the youtube channel Cody'sLab tried to stand in a basin/bucket full of mercury. He also squirted mercury out of his mouth, and he used to do a bunch of other Mercury related videos. Since I first started watching him he's become increasingly eccentric and he eventually had a bout of Depression. Evenrually, Cody started to build a self-sufficient mars base out in the middle of nowhere. I'm not saying the mercury contact is necessarily related, but i'm not not saying it was related
