Vegetable oil
Milk ?
lmao, the most rational answer in this whole thread
Oatmilk, Tea, Cum, Flavored water (no sugar pls)
one of these is not really like the others is it?
Flavored water does feel like cheating. It’s really just water.
as long as theres no sugar in it. sucks to get… sticky.
Cum flavoured water could be a big seller
It’s a hard sell though.
Coconut penis
I’d say perfluorocarbons, like perfluorodecalin. Harmless and clear, but they have huge oxygen absorption capacity, so you’d surely be able to breathe even if you sank your face in it (probably not fun to do so tho).
Very difficult to immerse yourself into these, though, because of their density being about 2x that of the human body.
Like waterboarding yourself whilst never dying
No, you still die, because a viscous and therefor slow-moving liquid physically can’t remove CO2 fast enough from your lungs. Otherwise we’d have lots of premature babies hanging out in jars.
Unfortunately, in humans CO2 is the thing that gives the “suffocating” feeling, and it takes a long time to actually kill you at modest levels, so that description still applies a bit.
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 in 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 is 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!
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?
What happens if I make a me espresso using me soup?
Isn’t that what a lefty-cappuccino is? (urbandictionary…)
Wait, would it work as a contraceptive, then?
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 won’t drop dead a week later.
Zero sugar energy drinks.
No sugar means its not gonna get sticky, it’d rinse right off.
I imagine a bunch of creams already use the b vitamins you’d get since they love shoving b vitamins in those.
And it’ll actually drain when you’re done and a quick rinse will get everything normal afterwards.
coke zero, no question. diet coke? no thank you. Pepsi max? gtfo
Imagine rocking up to the weird bath house all prepped to bathe in Coke and they’re like, “Oh, sorry. We only have Pepsi.”
burn the place to the ground would be the most reasonable response
why do you hate Pepsi so much? I like it
it beat me as a child
Would the caffeine have any effect? Can skin absorb it?
Warm egg custard
Sleepytime tea
Feel like any resulting UTIs would be worth it for the great sleep that bath would bring
My goodness, that’s almost a bucket list item.
Hmm. I wonder how steeped would be best for maximum soothing. Unless it’s a heated tub there would be a real art to the timing even once you know.
Elon his blood. 6L is enough.
I think 4L is enough for him to go into shock
I just want to be sure.
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
the physical description also applies to butter
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.
Shit
This was my first thought. Terrifying! Claustrophobia has entered the chat.
Actually because of the density you wont be able to sink more than about 1/6th of your body into it.
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.
So, if you laid on a large enough block of it, you’d have the perfect shape to make a mold for a customized foam mattress?
I suspect there’s an easier choice, if a dense bed is all you need. Every liter of the stuff goes for 872 USD as of 2019. And that’s not even bad, considering how rare it is and how great the semiconductors you can make with it are. It’s neighbor Germanium is another digit up.
Edit: Wow, somebody already linked this exact thing elsewhere.
Missed opportunity for a Saw film
150 litres of Gallium would cost $130800
Well that does make it quite regrettable for most people, I suppose
We need to convince the billionaires that this is the cool thing for them to do…
Hmm! Quite the investment vehicle!
(I’m now just picturing tech bros smugly smiling with bathtubs full of gallium)
You don’t want it to get in your body (holes, cuts etc…)
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 20°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!
Thanks i will try it out later :)
You’ll completely float on mercury, and cesium does no good to your body. Like, at all.
I’m sure an Infinite ice bath has an appeal to someone
Heinz Baked Beans.
Excuse you, this isn’t inconventional at all, 69,000,000 Brits do it every morning
Baked Beans
no regrets?
It seems that you need to go watch Tommy: A Rock Opera immediately
Oh I’m a huge fan.
Vanta Black
I’m gambling that the experience of it would mitigate how much of a pain in the ass the repercussions would be.
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.
I wanna know what it feels like though :(
On the morbidly curious side of things, I do wonder what such a person looks like. You would just notice the eyes and the hair. Everything else would just be stark contrast.
There’s also the whole, “went vanta black face” issue
Vanta black face is only 2d racism.Which is a measurable amount, but incomparable to 3d racism.
The unit analysis checks out.
Nice interrobang.
I had no idea a single symbol existed for an interrobang?!
It absolutely does‽ Just get your keyboard to auto replace an exclamation and a question mark next to each other into an interrobang.
There’s also ⸮ which was a (very) early attempt at what /s now is.
Honey
least regretable
The only one that’s physically repulsive to imagine though. It would be so sticky
The good news is, you could swim just fine.
Imagine being the janitor having to clean that up after the experiment
Get a hose. It would take time because of the large area, but that’s just job security.
The main thing I’ve heard janitors complain about IRL is actually shoe scuffs, because there’s no easy way to get them off. Which is interesting, because you know they’re also cleaning up apocalyptic bathroom messes. I guess one just gets used to that.
Y tho
4kicks
Seems like a criminal waste of beer. Unless that’s Bud Light.
oh ho my friend, you should visit a beer bath spa
To me a beer bath would be about as appealing as a toothpaste enema - and there’s probably a spa where you can get those too - but to each their own.
A non-Newtonian fluid
