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Itβd have to be a communal bath though, and Iβm inviting you all, even Hairy Steve.
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.
It's someone's fetish for sure
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.
Actually because of the density you wont be able to sink more than about 1/6th of your body into it.
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
You don't want it to get in your body (holes, cuts etc...)
Missed opportunity for a Saw film
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
the physical description also applies to butter
Astroglide
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.
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
Youβve got two Cleopatra stories mixed up there.
She was said to bathe in assβs (donkeyβs) milk.
She killed herself by holding an asp (snake) to her breast.
Heinz Baked Beans.
Excuse you, this isn't unconventional at all, 69,000,000 Brits do it every morning
Vegetable oil
Clarified butter
