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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

This is not how calorie content is measured...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How long would a gallon of gas last me?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

Also the rest of your life

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

This just gives me spec-evo ideas for a person who does the shin-godzilla schtick where they ingest radioactive material and then use their inner fluids, either blood or some secondary circulatory system, as a coolant for the internal bio-reactor digestive system.

Either developing sail-hawks and sail-backs to expose as much surface area as possible, or Kit-Fisto style tail-locks with the same purpose.

Maybe a mix of both with the sail fans migrating to be like bat wings for that extra surface area cooling combined with high altitude chill.

Surprisingly I'd actually imagine this creature getting smaller, more use out of every bit of material they can find, and smaller creatures radiate heat more quickly than larger ones, so even more bio-coolant features to keep the reactor from making biological corium.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Literally, works even better with Plutonium.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

havent you heard? plutonium is not a real element, it's just a minor elem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Well, its an Actinium (94), but it works better than Uranium. Alternatively you can also use Polonium to eliminate the need to eat for the rest of your life, it was even tested

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So if i eat nanograms a day i'll be alright eh .

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Finally, an application for homeopathy!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

This should be a stellaris litoid trait. Your pops need no minerals for food, but are highly radioactive.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh, I shouldn't have had seconds.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you did, you certainly only have seconds now...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Not even enough to say "I bring you love"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

The magic from elven bakeries.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

How bout uranus?

[–] [email protected] 75 points 7 months ago (2 children)

FYI: unprocessed uranium isn't radioactive enough to do a lot of harm. At least as eaten. BUT uranium is incredibly toxic as a heavy metal so it'd still kill you quickly.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

I guess it would still be enough for a lifetime 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago

Still technically correct for "rest of your life" lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think a gram of uranium will be able to pass through your digestive system without killing you. I wouldn't call it safe but that ammount of radiation isn't lethal. I don't know if it'd be poison, though.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If its an oxide or something else insoluble the toxicity would be relatively low. Soluble salts you may as well finalize your will.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Tetraethyluranium

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I wanna have a glow-poo!

whaaamp whhaaaaaaaammmmmph!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

SenzU bean!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Karlach approves

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Yellow cake 🤤

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Forget pop rocks we want hot rocks

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

Everything is edible once.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Technically eating chlorophyll would give you infinite energy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Maybe that’s what my grandmother meant about the sun shining out my ass.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Drinking a gallon of bleach will be enough liquid for the rest of your life. It will be an absolutely painful way to spend it though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

None of that wimpy and watered-down regular bleach, though. Go for the liquid chlorine used in pools, it's typically about twice as strong. You can get it at Walmart (or Lowes} when it is in-season.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

"A lethal dose is a lifetime supply."

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