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.
Shit
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)
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!
You’ll completely float on mercury, and cesium does no good to your body. Like, at all.
Thanks i will try it out later :)
There’s alloys with lower melting points, here’s one that’s 281K/8°C
I’m sure an Infinite ice bath has an appeal to someone
You don’t want it to get in your body (holes, cuts etc…)
the physical description also applies to butter
Missed opportunity for a Saw film
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?
Heinz Baked Beans.
Excuse you, this isn’t unconventional at all, 69,000,000 Brits do it every morning
no regrets?
Oatmilk, Tea, Cum, Flavored water (no sugar pls)
one of these is not really like the others is it?
Cum flavoured water could be a big seller
It’s a hard sell though.
I was going to say heavy water, but TIL that it’s not just chonky water. It can be toxic.
Like, barely toxic. Table salt will kill you faster.
One line of evidence for this is a literal mixup at a nuclear plant where they managed to put it in the water cooler for an extended period, with no ill effects.
Only if you drink it in considerable amounts. Should be pretty fine for a bath though.
Cannabis oil
now that’d be a journey
Milk ?
lmao, the most rational answer in this whole thread
Alcoholic beverages
- white wine (but a dip into red would be interesting)
- beer, for the carbonation
- champagne, for the bubbles and the decadence of it
Other liquids
- sparkling water, a jacuzzi without one
- rose water (for those who don’t know, it is sickly sweet smelling and very persistent and can be food grade)
- oil, like sunflower, olive or any other of the like. After, just scrape you body, like the ancient athletes would do
A non-Newtonian fluid
Hand scrubber wash. You know the hand soap/lotion thing full of beads to scrub your hands clean? Love that. I’d get in a tub of that.
Vanta Black
I’m gambling that the experience of it would mitigate how much of a pain in the ass the repercussions would be.
Edit: I suppose I ought to have looked before, but this appears to be not the healthiest decision (who’d have though‽). Maybe we’ll go with some kind of closest equivalent nontoxic paint?
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 :(
It’s also grown on aluminum rather than applied as a paint IIRC. You’ll have to go with basic hardware store stuff if you want to go for a dip, probably.
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
Lemon jello.
Just before it sets.
Vegetable oil
Custard