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!!
I wanna taste that blue Cherenkov tang
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!
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And it goes straight to my hips. By which I mean the bone marrow in my pelvis.
These hips don’t lie : you got cancer
Why the pelvis specifically? How did it get there? What were you doing with it?
Hey, sexy bone-marrow pelvis, shake them atomic gains!
(OK, but like, if I produced synthetic plutonium I would make the box look like a chocolate box. Those workers & engineers deserve to have a fun work environment, engage in some shenanigans, make an oopsie from time to time.)
Not dietal calories.
The calorie numbers we assign to food, measure how much energy our body extracts from them when eaten.
In this context, plutonium is closer to 0
If we instead want to measure the actual total physical energy content of materia, we would turn to E=mc^2, telling us that a gram of anything has about 20 million kcal, no matter if its plutonium or diet coke. which is a slightly less useful value on food labels :D
Technically it measures how much you can heat up a known volume of water if you burn the food. We have no way of measuring how much of that energy released by combustion actually gets absorbed and translated to ATP in the body, but it’s the best estimation we have of the relative energy content of foods.
There’s some carbohydrates, proteins, and fats that our bodies don’t seem to convert to energy (or only partially convert) but still technically contain “calories” because they’re combustible. Sugar alcohols, fiber, etc.
Plutonium doesn’t combust, but it would heat up water in a calorimeter. Really the test method’s applicability kind of falls apart when you start testing undigestible materials.
Plutonium actually does combust1. Even worse, it’s pyrophoric2. I couldn’t easily find kcal/g though.
I did a little digging. The heat of decay (so plutonium 238 just sitting around, not burning) is about .48 kcal/hr per gram. So if we were able to convert that energy to ATP like we do carbohydrates, eating about 300g of plutonium would be like eating a twinkie (150kcal) every hour. In about 88 years the energy output of that plutonium would have reduced to about a half-twinkie per hour.
Assuming you need 2000 kcal per day to maintain weight, that’s only 83 kcal per hour needed. So, if you could survive eating it and actually utilize the energy generated, you’d be set for life on food after eating less than 300g. We’d have to come up with a dosing schedule or you’d have to work out pretty hard as a young person to keep from getting fat.
The heat of combustion for plutonium based on a very cursory search (take it with a grain of salt) is about 1 kcal/g. So assuming your body could oxidize it, you’d get a one-time burst of about 2 twinkies worth of energy immediately upon eating that 300g.
Oh no!
Equivalent-level of fun fact: 1 gram of hay contains that much calories too!
No wonder cows are so fat
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The highest calorie last meal
Happy cake day!
Technically, this is processed cake. Yellow cake that is.
We need a cosmological law dictating harmful to humans = boring-looking. I mean, it isn’t just plutonium, look at uranium yellowcake! It’s lemon flavouring!
that looks like a sponge x3
It looks like the underside of a microfiber towel
Yellowcake, sponge… lemon flavoured sponge cake?
I like how all these pictures include the radiation fucking up the photo.
Some Pu solutions for your viewing pleasure:
Square pringles 😋
Isn’t it just that color because it’s hot? Like, if you cooled those off to room temperature, wouldn’t they be metallic gray?
Cooling down means it’s breaking down and no longer plutonium.
I’m talking about thermally cooling it down. If you put it in a freezer it will cool down, but the nuclear process will not change speed.
Good luck with cooling down unmoderated plutonium.
That’s why they have it in a frying pan
just take a cheese grater to it to make smaller pieces smh
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Please reconsider
Yeah. That looks like something Codyslab will do…
According to your table, it’s not as bad as that, just not a good idea. E: Wait, missread that as thorium.
The fact that Thorium and Uranium are just “probably not a good idea” makes me think that the scale is based on licking like an ore that contains them rather than the pure element
I’m pretty sure I could get away with licking my uranium ore sample. Not going to test it apropos of nothing though.
A lot of those trans-uranium (and astatine) aren’t going to exist in lick-able quantities anyway.
In order to lick something at the very least it needs to be liquid, or better yet, solid.
Trying to kick hydrogen, with this in mind, will be the last lick you ever do in your life
This whole image is metal as fuck \m/
if you can wait a few million years, after few decay steps it turns into lead, which is known to be sweet
Yes, it does look delicious.
But I can’t help but think about this being the consequences of dying everything we eat unholy colors. Maybe radioactive material wouldn’t be so tasty looking if we didn’t give kids candy that looks like radioactive material.
Counterpoint: fruit
Even oranges aren’t neon orange
What would happen if you played hockey with that?
Deliciously ever-hot orange pie
It is for sure delicious, but those who tested, never said it
You only get one chance to find out!
It’ll kill ya in loads of inventive and horrible ways, but sure, you can give it a try!
What do the dots taste like?
