ladicius@lemmy.world
on 21 Dec 2024 20:24
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Scientists aren’t being paid enough, that’s how they found out, right?
metaStatic@kbin.earth
on 21 Dec 2024 20:48
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How many times have I told you, don't drink from the beakers.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works
on 21 Dec 2024 22:01
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I’m a chemist, and I’ve been gifted beaker tea-glasses and water glasses. They have been made for drinking, have never even been close to a lab, and yet drinking from a beaker makes me actually physically nauseous. It’s 100% psychosomatic, I know it’s fine, but my instincts scream at me not to do this, and I actually become nauseous when I drink water from a beaker.
So it’s pretty easy not to
rumschlumpel@feddit.org
on 22 Dec 2024 14:52
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Your brain is being a bro for once! Good job Tar_Alcaran’s brain 👍
FiskFisk33@startrek.website
on 22 Dec 2024 18:07
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this is how I expect reasonable people to react with the type of knowledge you have, yet we have multiple well known sweeteners discovered by accident.
NounsAndWords@lemmy.world
on 21 Dec 2024 21:39
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From what I understand, you would probably have to pay geologists extra (and I guess archaeologists) to not lick stuff they dig out of the ground.
ArtieShaw@fedia.io
on 21 Dec 2024 20:54
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A lot of scientists sample the wares. It had to be explicitly banned at my workplace. "Organoleptic testing" was how they put it. There were several incidents, but the one with polyols was extra. (Sugar-free gummi bears will give you the gist of it. Link below) They just get bored and stupid. They'll check the LD50 (if known), then go to town if it's tasty enough.
The reviews on amazon were seriously the funniest shit I’ve ever read in my life. I laughed so much the first time I was in pain
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
on 22 Dec 2024 00:42
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Those reviews made me feel better when it eventually happened to me personally. It was a sugar-free nutella-like spread. I should have known better. At least the time on the toilet passed faster because I remembered the gummy bear reviews, they made for an appropriate reading
What Im learning from this is that I should never try anything that is sugar free
RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 22 Dec 2024 02:26
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Some artificial sweeteners are also effective laxatives. If you’ve seen eclipse mints, they use it. 1 tin is fine, 2 is toilet time.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org
on 22 Dec 2024 14:51
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Well, there’s a difference between “the normal version contains some sugar” and “the normal version is almost entirely made out of sugar”.
BastingChemina@slrpnk.net
on 21 Dec 2024 22:16
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I don’t know how much of this story is a legend or not but this is how a scientific (Claude Lorius) for the idea of collecting data from the air bubbles trapped in the arctic ice. (This data is now the base of climate science)
After a day of drilling on the arctic, as they were releasing in the evening they decided to use ice cubes from the ice they just drilled for their whisky. Drinking ice that is several hundred thousands years old is quite cool. While drinking the whisky the scientific noticed the air bubbles coming at the surface, then he got the idea that of he could analyze the air trapped in the ice he would get information about the atmosphere of the past.
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
on 22 Dec 2024 00:35
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decided to use ice cubes from the ice they just drilled for their whisky
And this is how you get a weird parasite that was frozen in ice for 100k years
The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org
on 22 Dec 2024 01:04
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Ooooor some freaky cool superhuman powers.
ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 22 Dec 2024 04:14
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Two options means it’s a 50/50 chance, totally worth a shot!
Danitos@reddthat.com
on 22 Dec 2024 07:11
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Agents Mulder and Scully, FBI
idunnololz@lemmy.world
on 22 Dec 2024 16:43
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We have seemingly reliable accounts of archeologist/explorers cooking and sampling frozen mammoth meat they excavated.
The meat was good enough to eat without them falling sick. Apparently it tasted like muddy meat and it had the texture of what you’d imagine bad elephant jerky would be like.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
on 22 Dec 2024 12:43
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Isn’t this how we got the moldy flesh as a delicatess trend?
i_love_FFT@jlai.lu
on 22 Dec 2024 14:11
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This conversation would have been with normies.
Other scientists would be like “What type of almond? Also we need peer review!”
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
on 22 Dec 2024 14:30
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Fun fact: the alternative sweetener, aspartame, was also discovered to be sweet when the discoverer licked his finger after lifting the piece of paper contaminated with the substance.
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Scientists aren’t being paid enough, that’s how they found out, right?
How many times have I told you, don't drink from the beakers.
I’m a chemist, and I’ve been gifted beaker tea-glasses and water glasses. They have been made for drinking, have never even been close to a lab, and yet drinking from a beaker makes me actually physically nauseous. It’s 100% psychosomatic, I know it’s fine, but my instincts scream at me not to do this, and I actually become nauseous when I drink water from a beaker.
So it’s pretty easy not to
Your brain is being a bro for once! Good job Tar_Alcaran’s brain 👍
this is how I expect reasonable people to react with the type of knowledge you have, yet we have multiple well known sweeteners discovered by accident.
From what I understand, you would probably have to pay geologists extra (and I guess archaeologists) to not lick stuff they dig out of the ground.
A lot of scientists sample the wares. It had to be explicitly banned at my workplace. "Organoleptic testing" was how they put it. There were several incidents, but the one with polyols was extra. (Sugar-free gummi bears will give you the gist of it. Link below) They just get bored and stupid. They'll check the LD50 (if known), then go to town if it's tasty enough.
https://www.reddit.com/r/amazonreviews/comments/11otwx0/the_horror_that_is_haribo_sugarfree_gummi_bears/
Oh boy that was a good read
Classic. A little googling will turn up gold for sugar free gummi effects
The reviews on amazon were seriously the funniest shit I’ve ever read in my life. I laughed so much the first time I was in pain
Those reviews made me feel better when it eventually happened to me personally. It was a sugar-free nutella-like spread. I should have known better. At least the time on the toilet passed faster because I remembered the gummy bear reviews, they made for an appropriate reading
What Im learning from this is that I should never try anything that is sugar free
Some artificial sweeteners are also effective laxatives. If you’ve seen eclipse mints, they use it. 1 tin is fine, 2 is toilet time.
Well, there’s a difference between “the normal version contains some sugar” and “the normal version is almost entirely made out of sugar”.
I don’t know how much of this story is a legend or not but this is how a scientific (Claude Lorius) for the idea of collecting data from the air bubbles trapped in the arctic ice. (This data is now the base of climate science)
After a day of drilling on the arctic, as they were releasing in the evening they decided to use ice cubes from the ice they just drilled for their whisky. Drinking ice that is several hundred thousands years old is quite cool. While drinking the whisky the scientific noticed the air bubbles coming at the surface, then he got the idea that of he could analyze the air trapped in the ice he would get information about the atmosphere of the past.
And this is how you get a weird parasite that was frozen in ice for 100k years
Ooooor some freaky cool superhuman powers.
Two options means it’s a 50/50 chance, totally worth a shot!
<img alt="" src="https://i.imgur.com/RVBJ6CY.jpeg">
cbc.ca/…/siberian-permafrost-roundworm-1.6923300
Don’t threaten scientists with a good time.
We have seemingly reliable accounts of archeologist/explorers cooking and sampling frozen mammoth meat they excavated.
The meat was good enough to eat without them falling sick. Apparently it tasted like muddy meat and it had the texture of what you’d imagine bad elephant jerky would be like.
Isn’t this how we got the moldy flesh as a delicatess trend?
This conversation would have been with normies.
Other scientists would be like “What type of almond? Also we need peer review!”
Fun fact: the alternative sweetener, aspartame, was also discovered to be sweet when the discoverer licked his finger after lifting the piece of paper contaminated with the substance.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame?wprov=sfla1
Ah, nothing like doing some proper lab work, then putting your fingies in your mouth.
So there’s cyanide in the soil?