youtube.com/@explosionsandfire if he releases it soon and you want to watch it instead of just seeing the post where he demos the title card
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
on 18 Feb 05:22
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Either way, as long as I get to drink my lightly processed urine through a special straw in my jumpsuit, dammit I’m in.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
on 18 Feb 07:15
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“Lisan al Gaib!”
Deconceptualist@lemm.ee
on 18 Feb 05:32
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Xenon is a drug?
Drugs.com calls it “physiologically inert” with some anaesthetic effects at high doses. Most of the coverage is about Xe-133 radiopharmacology and not what most people would think of as a “drug”. Is there more to the story?
Is it me or is he just slightly asphyxiated after the first breath?
We messed with sulfur hexaflouride a while back, and it’s kinda difficult to exhale it all without putting your head between your knees and breathing hard.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
on 18 Feb 12:15
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FooBarrington@lemmy.world
on 18 Feb 20:22
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Yeah. If you spray it on a hammer and hit someone’s head with it, it knocks them right out.
drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 18 Feb 20:53
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Don’t listen to the people who say it works by displacing oxygen. It would never be used as a general anesthetic if that was the mechanism of action.
Xenon has been used as a general anesthetic, but it is more expensive than conventional anesthetics.
Xenon is a high-affinity glycine-site NMDA receptor antagonist.[155] However, xenon is different from certain other NMDA receptor antagonists in that it is not neurotoxic and it inhibits the neurotoxicity of ketamine and nitrous oxide (N2O), while actually producing neuroprotective effects.[156][157] Unlike ketamine and nitrous oxide, xenon does not stimulate a dopamine efflux in the nucleus accumbens.[158]
Xenon has a minimum alveolar concentration (MAC) of 72% at age 40, making it 44% more potent than N2O as an anesthetic.[164] Thus, it can be used with oxygen in concentrations that have a lower risk of hypoxia.
Is xenon actually that rare? I thought it’s always used whenever something needs an ultra stable environment like enclosed data centers and sealed storage/vaults.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works
on 18 Feb 18:39
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Yeah, compared to other noble gases, it’s pretty rare, and we don’t produce very much. If I recall correctly, the 900 kg loaded on the Psyche spacecraft last year represented about 10% of the world production.
That doesn’t make it rare. It’s just a byproduct that is produced in large enough quantities for other uses without specifically cracking air to produce it rather then oxygen and nitrogen.
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youtube.com/@explosionsandfire if he releases it soon and you want to watch it instead of just seeing the post where he demos the title card
Either way, as long as I get to drink my lightly processed urine through a special straw in my jumpsuit, dammit I’m in.
“Lisan al Gaib!”
Xenon is a drug?
Drugs.com calls it “physiologically inert” with some anaesthetic effects at high doses. Most of the coverage is about Xe-133 radiopharmacology and not what most people would think of as a “drug”. Is there more to the story?
www.drugs.com/pro/xenon-xe-133-gas.html
At the worst, you can use it like people use nitrogen. To get a very brief high from lack of oxygen (and then possibly die)
Not that I’m aware of. I’m assuming Tom was referring to its anaesthetic effects, which I don’t think have been widely studied.
iirc it’s a dissociative.
I remember Hamilton’s pharmacopeia doing an episode on it. Apparently it is/was popular in Russia.
Here’s a video of Hamilton doing some: youtu.be/dj25HO48Gxw
Is it me or is he just slightly asphyxiated after the first breath?
We messed with sulfur hexaflouride a while back, and it’s kinda difficult to exhale it all without putting your head between your knees and breathing hard.
oh, so it’s a “medicine drug”…
It works by dispersing oxygen from the blood. The lack of oxygen gives you a high. Which is can turn deadly if you don’t unhook when passing out.
Isn’t that the same as Nitrogen, like Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works said? That doesn’t sound like there’s any unique mechanism to Xenon.
Correct
Yeah. If you spray it on a hammer and hit someone’s head with it, it knocks them right out.
Don’t listen to the people who say it works by displacing oxygen. It would never be used as a general anesthetic if that was the mechanism of action.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenon
I didn’t think to check Wikipedia for pharmacology info haha. Thanks.
Man explosion&fire/extractions&ire are some of the best channels on Youtube, love that dude
I’m reading all these comments in his voice.
So am I, mate!
G’DAY AND WELCOME TO EXPLOSIONS AND FIIIIIRE!!! I love nothing in the world more than ex&f
Xenon are an advanced robotic faction in the X universe, so Xenon for space travel checks out
Love me some Explosions and Fire
Is xenon actually that rare? I thought it’s always used whenever something needs an ultra stable environment like enclosed data centers and sealed storage/vaults.
Yeah, compared to other noble gases, it’s pretty rare, and we don’t produce very much. If I recall correctly, the 900 kg loaded on the Psyche spacecraft last year represented about 10% of the world production.
That doesn’t make it rare. It’s just a byproduct that is produced in large enough quantities for other uses without specifically cracking air to produce it rather then oxygen and nitrogen.