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It says it's never been tested on humans and the proper diligence should follow, But given that we already eat large amounts of it with no harmful side effects

It says it's never been tested on humans and the proper diligence should follow, But given that we already eat large amounts of it with no harmful side effects, the expectations are good.

ryanwhitney 2y ago
eh i just put some on the top of my hand and i didn't see any bones
- DFHippie 2y ago
  Maybe you should get that hand x-rayed. Is it particularly bendy?
- pfdietz 2y ago
  Tim: Look at the bones!
gus_massa 2y ago
The dose makes the poison. Considering that food usually don't make your tongue transparent [1], probably you need to use more than the usual amount to get the effect. [1] Note that they get skin that is transparent only to one shade of red, it's not transparent to all the visible spectrum.
- moralestapia 2y ago
  The absorbed dose makes the poison. The effect of a substance is usually three orders of magnitude lower when you rub it on your skin vs. when you swallow it.
  - JumpCrisscross 2y ago
    > effect of a substance is usually three orders of magnitude lower when you rub it on your skin vs. when you swallow it Going out on a limb and guessing you're at an effective dose for something when it's making your skin transparent.
    - fasa99 2y ago
      (1) "All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison." (2) assume it isn't absorbed into the larger body. Still the tissue absorbing it got a YUUUUGEEE dose. Then presumably most of it is washed out minutes later. So under that assumption we worry about localized tissue damage ---- --- which, if we're talking about things like cancer patients here who commonly get zapped with X-rays and gamma rays and antimatter and such, is perhaps not out of the ordinary. If there's no systematic damage the main concern would be cancer. If the skin dies, it can be fixed. And heck, a lot of cancer treatments also cause cancer i.e. many children with blood cancers go onto later get other cancers due to the medicinal cure of their blood cancer side effect.
  - unsnap_biceps 2y ago
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It says it's never been tested on humans and the proper diligence should follow, But given that we already eat large amounts of it with no harmful side effects, the expectations are good.

ryanwhitney 2y ago

eh i just put some on the top of my hand and i didn't see any bones

DFHippie 2y ago
Maybe you should get that hand x-rayed. Is it particularly bendy?
pfdietz 2y ago
Tim: Look at the bones!

gus_massa 2y ago

The dose makes the poison. Considering that food usually don't make your tongue transparent [1], probably you need to use more than the usual amount to get the effect. [1] Note that they get skin that is transparent only to one shade of red, it's not transparent to all the visible spectrum.

moralestapia 2y ago
The absorbed dose makes the poison. The effect of a substance is usually three orders of magnitude lower when you rub it on your skin vs. when you swallow it.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago
  > effect of a substance is usually three orders of magnitude lower when you rub it on your skin vs. when you swallow it Going out on a limb and guessing you're at an effective dose for something when it's making your skin transparent.
  - fasa99 2y ago
    (1) "All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison." (2) assume it isn't absorbed into the larger body. Still the tissue absorbing it got a YUUUUGEEE dose. Then presumably most of it is washed out minutes later. So under that assumption we worry about localized tissue damage ---- --- which, if we're talking about things like cancer patients here who commonly get zapped with X-rays and gamma rays and antimatter and such, is perhaps not out of the ordinary. If there's no systematic damage the main concern would be cancer. If the skin dies, it can be fixed. And heck, a lot of cancer treatments also cause cancer i.e. many children with blood cancers go onto later get other cancers due to the medicinal cure of their blood cancer side effect.
- unsnap_biceps 2y ago
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