I have to admit that I absolutely love how licking sodium or chloride individually is very bad for you, but when you put them together, you can lick, eat, and even swim in it all day with minimal ill health effects.
The only time I taste the human flesh is when I nervously bite my cheek so it starts to have fibroma which I try to gnaw off. Nah, tastes more like clam
If it’s anything like pool salt, probably not. I have a neighbor who uses pool salt, and I feel like I come out less shriveled (in my fingers of course 😏) than if it were chlorine water.
This diagram is way way way too conservative with the "see you on the other side" classification. To name a few: fluorine will literally make you catch fire instantly (if there's more of it, you will basically get burned to a crisp before you can even blink), caesium will violently react with water in your mouth and produce so much hydrogen and heat, the whole mixture will instantly explode (in fact, this will not only be a usual, fire-like explosion, it will in addition to that be a so-called Coulomb explosion, which makes the situation even worse)
You see, I was waiting for someone to bring up head-in-particle-collider-soviet-man only to raise you a different less known Vietnamese physicist who stuck his hands there instead!
there's an ok Kyle Hill video about it if you're interested (:
They could very easily just keep the color for color seeing people, and then add a simple pattern in the background.
Like maybe diagonal lines on one, wavy horizontal lines in another, small dots in another, etc.
Just pretend you are taking a black and white picture or making a black and white copy on an old copy machine. Can you still interpret the data afterwards? If yes, then you did it right.
What you're supposed to do with this stuff is design it in grayscale first, conveying information through shading, and then just add colour afterwards while maintaining the shade.
I don't mean that in a shitty way either. Low End Theory by Tribe Called Quest, Black on Both Sides by Mos Def and Madvillainy by Madvillain. Spin them start to finish with a decent set of headphones. Good Shit.
Some of those in the actinoid [sic] series are gonna be really difficult to lick simply because of how unbelievably short their half-life is, or those such as mendelevium, that require you to either have access to (and in other cases even have your head inside of) a linear particle collider.
Yeah, if it's possible to have a normal licking experience with something that's gaseous at room temperature, it's not going to go well if you do lick it.
i think gasses can be licked, for example - if i put menthol shards into hot cup of water, i can definitely feel it on my tongue if i lick the air above the cup. therefore, lickable
I responded similarly when I saw this posted before. Yes, mercury can be very toxic if it gets into your blood, but the chances of that happening from a lick are astonishingly small.
Radon should be yellow. You don't want long term exposure of it in your lungs, but it's still mostly chemically inert and not a significant immediate danger.
Just like how lithium should be red. Just because it's less likely to explode your face open doesn't mean that it's just "not a good idea". It immediately creates pure Lithium Hydroxide, which will immediately start saponifying your mouth, and that's assuming it doesn't immediately light on fire, like the last time I did that experiment.
I have to admit that I absolutely love how licking sodium or chloride individually is very bad for you, but when you put them together, you can lick, eat, and even swim in it all day with minimal ill health effects.
Science. 💙
If you submerged your body in table salt in a swimming pool for an entire day, would you come out dehydrated and start to turn cured like beef jerky?
(Homer Simpson) Mhh cured beef jerky
Don't we taste more like pork?
The only time I taste the human flesh is when I nervously bite my cheek so it starts to have fibroma which I try to gnaw off. Nah, tastes more like clam
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If it’s anything like pool salt, probably not. I have a neighbor who uses pool salt, and I feel like I come out less shriveled (in my fingers of course 😏) than if it were chlorine water.
You are taking about water with salt. The question about submerging in a pool full of just salt.
I was in the pool!
Ask RFK Jr
If you eat salt all day its going to have some quite serious health effects. Traces of it are tasty but that is about the limit.
Drinking seawater will kill someone quite fast...
Can't wait for bionic kidneys to be an option that allow drinking sea water
This diagram is way way way too conservative with the "see you on the other side" classification. To name a few: fluorine will literally make you catch fire instantly (if there's more of it, you will basically get burned to a crisp before you can even blink), caesium will violently react with water in your mouth and produce so much hydrogen and heat, the whole mixture will instantly explode (in fact, this will not only be a usual, fire-like explosion, it will in addition to that be a so-called Coulomb explosion, which makes the situation even worse)
I wish to subscribe to more fun chemistry reaction facts!
It's never occurred to me that I can lick neon
Can you lick a gas? Licking liquid neon is very unwise.
Then lick solid neon, duh
You can lick xenon. Even inhale. Very fancy and very expensive. Show those nitrous plebs that you have the wealth to enjoy real chemical cuisine!
Just ask Rocky to make you some neononite. If they can make xenonite, I don't see why they couldn't do neonite.
Licking most of the transuranium elements would entale sticking your tongue in a particle collider. Which I think is a fun Friday night 🤪
Collider? I barely know her!
...And then they built the super collider.
Thank you, you've been a great audience.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski
You have activated my trap card!
You see, I was waiting for someone to bring up head-in-particle-collider-soviet-man only to raise you a different less known Vietnamese physicist who stuck his hands there instead!
there's an ok Kyle Hill video about it if you're interested (:
That’s what she said.
Being colorblind sucks
It just means you can lick them all
Superpowers!
can you see these? 🤔
I love that the colour blind compatible version to just incompetentible to everyone else.
Oh wow! I'd give you Lemmy gold if I could 🥇
Exactly.
They could very easily just keep the color for color seeing people, and then add a simple pattern in the background.
Like maybe diagonal lines on one, wavy horizontal lines in another, small dots in another, etc.
Just pretend you are taking a black and white picture or making a black and white copy on an old copy machine. Can you still interpret the data afterwards? If yes, then you did it right.
What you're supposed to do with this stuff is design it in grayscale first, conveying information through shading, and then just add colour afterwards while maintaining the shade.
Don't let a stupid chart tell you what you can and can't lick.
Why isn't one of those responses
"Yes, you can!" ?
Because "Sure, go for it" is just that worded another way.
Listen to more music, bro.
Ah, a woosh. Thanks for the context!
I don't mean that in a shitty way either. Low End Theory by Tribe Called Quest, Black on Both Sides by Mos Def and Madvillainy by Madvillain. Spin them start to finish with a decent set of headphones. Good Shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-uV8TGjaGU
I'm slightly infuriated that green doesn't say: yes, you can!
Can we edit it?!
Sure, go for it.
Licking Lead is only "not a great idea?" I think it's squarely in the "Please don't do that" territory.
You can absolutely lick lead once without any noticeable consequences. You need to be living in constant interaction with lead to get poisoning.
The best part is that if you do it enough you will forget what the problem is and an continue to lick lead.
Would you rather lick Uranium?
Damn, so close, put "us" in there and I'd be licking Uranus.
Some of those in the actinoid [sic] series are gonna be really difficult to lick simply because of how unbelievably short their half-life is, or those such as mendelevium, that require you to either have access to (and in other cases even have your head inside of) a linear particle collider.
You know, I'm surprised by how much green is on here. I would have expected much more red and purple.
OH BOI, HERE I GO LICKING RADIOACTIVE CARBON ISOTOPES AGAIN!
* Under standard conditions for temperature and pressure
Yeah, if it's possible to have a normal licking experience with something that's gaseous at room temperature, it's not going to go well if you do lick it.
The most useful chart 😅
For the tactile learners out there!
I want to meet the motherfucker bold enough to lick cesium.
I don't think you'd be licking much of anything after that. It's the one at 10 seconds in the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YNsIaSbFdg
They're so casual about it too.
Go ahead and lick pure oxygen. Nothing wrong with that, sure.
You know O2 is pure oxygen right? Unless we're getting into the technicality of if things in there gaseous forms can be licked it's safe.
i think gasses can be licked, for example - if i put menthol shards into hot cup of water, i can definitely feel it on my tongue if i lick the air above the cup. therefore, lickable
Get a bottle of pure oxygen and open it over a tongue-simulator¹ to see what happens.
People usually use a hot-dog. But with oxygen, even a piece of wood is close enough.
You need something else along with the oxygen to cause combustion.
The mercury and Gemini space programs had cabins consisting of pure oxygen. And those astronauts were fine.
Apollo 1 says hi.
So what I get from this: You can probably just lick it. Odds are in your favor
When in doubt, lick it.
I follow the same rule with my wife.
When a problem comes along, you must lick it
Before the cream sets out too long, you must lick it
When something's going wrong, you must lick it
I'll take a pint of the purple stuff to go, please
Jokes on you, it'll decay before you reach the car.
thanks, I'll take it all to stay then
licking uranium is only "maybe not the best idea"?
Uranium is a toxic metal, even when completely disregarding its radioactivity
See, absolutely no order to the periodic table. Utterly useless.
Lick mercury? Plenty of people carry lumps of it right in their teeth, 24/7.
I responded similarly when I saw this posted before. Yes, mercury can be very toxic if it gets into your blood, but the chances of that happening from a lick are astonishingly small.
To my understanding, organic compounds are where the real danger is with mercury.
Technically they're amalgams with silver or other metals. Different properties and such.
Licks liquid Nitrogen
Licking hydrogen is safe? Licks the sun
If chemistry was spearheaded by goats
And none of the answers say that you can't. Some of them just say that you shouldn't.
Titanium should not be on a higher danger level than lead.
Edit: Tl != Ti
That's Thallium (Tl). Titanium (Ti) is a happy shade of green.
(I'm only replying because I thought that same thing at first glance)
Ah thanks.
And I would certainly hope so. You can buy eating utensils made from titanium.
PlumBum is my favorite flavor.
I think I would rather lick Technetium than Lithium
Yes you can! ...well I'm gone!
Missed opportunity for sure!
Radon should be yellow. You don't want long term exposure of it in your lungs, but it's still mostly chemically inert and not a significant immediate danger.
Just like how lithium should be red. Just because it's less likely to explode your face open doesn't mean that it's just "not a good idea". It immediately creates pure Lithium Hydroxide, which will immediately start saponifying your mouth, and that's assuming it doesn't immediately light on fire, like the last time I did that experiment.
Flourine should be the darkest purple. Injesting or inhaling any amount is serious bad news.
Noble gases go from 0 to 100 real quick.
Radioactivity will do that.
I’ve been told that uranium tastes just like lemon drops.
Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life.
The hydrogen is more likely to explode than poison me.
Saw this table already here.
In no circumstances you should lick Bohr. Go lick Lead instead - it's much safer
Are you sure this isnt just a seasonal calendar of my wife?
Source please?
I honestly have no idea where this originated, but it looks like it's been everywhere, has t-shirts and posters, etc.
I watched a video from 11 hours ago by the dude who made it, well, made this version at least.
https://youtu.be/NEP9MthJXaU
It's the exact same one on the video, something he's done for several videos.