Water based lube.
Itβd have to be a communal bath though, and Iβm inviting you all, even Hairy Steve.
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2025
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Extrapolating from the slipperiness of lube on the floor: this is a terrible idea. People will be bouncing around like pinballs.
This just sounds more and more appealing. Count me in.
Y tho
Milk ?
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
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.
Shit
150 litres of Gallium would cost $130800
Well that does make it quite regrettable for most people, I suppose
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 20Β°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!
You'll completely float on mercury, and cesium does no good to your body. Like, at all.
Thanks i will try it out later :)
I'm sure an Infinite ice bath has an appeal to someone
You don't want it to get in your body (holes, cuts etc...)
Missed opportunity for a Saw film
the physical description also applies to butter
Vegetable oil
Hand scrubber wash. You know the hand soap/lotion thing full of beads to srub your hands clean? Love that. I'd get in a tub of that.
Astroglide
Clarified butter
Heinz Baked Beans.
Baked Beans
Excuse you, this isn't unconventional at all, 69,000,000 Brits do it every morning
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Maybe coconut water or aloe vera gel, I imagine it'd feel weird but probably not regrettable.
I guess we've got to beat Cleopatra as our baseline with her bath of asp milk.
Marmite would probably veer into the regrettable category, and I'm saying that as a marmite enjoyer
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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?
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 wonβt drop dead a week later.
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 thoughβ½). 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.
Nice interrobang.
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