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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The highest calorie last meal

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

nah, this is just the appetizer to a big bowl of pasta made out of antimatter.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

Deliciously ever-hot orange pie

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

It is for sure delicious, but those who tested, never said it

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 hours ago

This whole image is metal as fuck \m/

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

What would happen if you played hockey with that?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago

That's plutonium. You would die of radiation poisoning long before you could ever even come close to developing cancer.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 hours ago

A lot of people get cancer already and ice also already melts all the time so I don't see why this is so special

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 30 minutes ago

Counterpoint: fruit

[–] [email protected] 114 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

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!!

[–] [email protected] 47 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I wanna taste that blue Cherenkov tang

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Evidently plutonium just tastes metallic. And radium is flavorless.

What I'm saying is people have tasted these things.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I think it was when we got to toxic metals and radioactive elements that chemists where forced to stop tasting their discoveries.

I hope it went: Safety person: Hey! Stop tasting any elements or new molecules. It's been getting people severely sick or killed!

Chemist: "Ugh, fine, but ima bitch about it the whole time"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 minutes ago

I can still huff them though, right? How else will I know when my reaction is done?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I believe the guy who tasted plutonium did so accidentally when the powder got in his mouth. The metallic taste probably has something to do with how radioactive it is.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Or the fact that it’s, y’know, a metal

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 hours ago

idk man. the tins I'm drinking out of don't really 'taste metallic', whereas when I got shot up with radioactive elements, I definitely described it as "having a metallic taste in my mouth".

(Oh and the answer is 'radiology' — shooting people up with radioactive elements is literally everyday stuff. There's a whole branch of medicine about it; "nuclear medicine.")

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

The food colouring they add to the orange juice (from those pods) makes it actually taste better!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

You only get one chance to find out!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

What do the dots taste like?

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