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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 217 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I mean, you can heat any old rock & make it look like that ... what I'm saying is that every rock, when heated to 500+°C, will gain delicious orange flavour, but scientists don't want you to know that!!

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 87 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I wanna taste that blue Cherenkov tang

[–] SippyCup 60 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Evidently plutonium just tastes metallic. And radium is flavorless.

What I'm saying is people have tasted these things.

[–] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I think it was when we got to toxic metals and radioactive elements that chemists where forced to stop tasting their discoveries.

I hope it went: Safety person: Hey! Stop tasting any elements or new molecules. It's been getting people severely sick or killed!

Chemist: "Ugh, fine, but ima bitch about it the whole time"

[–] SippyCup 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I believe the guy who tasted plutonium did so accidentally when the powder got in his mouth. The metallic taste probably has something to do with how radioactive it is.

[–] CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Or the fact that it’s, y’know, a metal

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

idk man. the tins I'm drinking out of don't really 'taste metallic', whereas when I got shot up with radioactive elements, I definitely described it as "having a metallic taste in my mouth".

(Oh and the answer is 'radiology' — shooting people up with radioactive elements is literally everyday stuff. There's a whole branch of medicine about it; "nuclear medicine.")

[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

I can still huff them though, right? How else will I know when my reaction is done?

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

It's coincidentally when we started getting radiation poisoning. Correlation? Causation? The younger generation is so weak smh.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What about butt-chugging them?

[–] SippyCup 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Demon core has entered the chat?

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 weeks ago

Demon buttplug

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

The food colouring they add to the orange juice (from those pods) makes it actually taste better!

I wanted to say the same - that blue color reminds me of blueberry with some mint for freshness!

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 4 points 2 weeks ago

...blue raspberry gatorade...