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> Never tested on humans But a few billion have ingested it in the past year, sometimes even in medical pill form to make yellow pills. Could be worse at highe
by jldugger 2y ago
> Never tested on humans
But a few billion have ingested it in the past year, sometimes even in medical pill form to make yellow pills. Could be worse at higher doses but seems plausibly safe and worth further testing.
- karmajunkie 2y agoThe poison, as they say, is in the dose... just speculating but the quantity of dye ingested versus that used to render skin transparent may be such that the former is relatively innocuous while the latter would be very harmful. In particular it seems to be genotoxic at relatively low levels so that would be concerning for use in humans.
- pvaldes 2y agoI don't recall the case of anybody grabbing a doritos bag and seeing trough their fingers, but a lamp behind your hand definitely can turn your fingers translucent. Maybe with both effects combined? The more valuable contribution here is probably the idea IMHO. To know that the optical effects of the light can be manipulated with the correct stuff and we could search for it. An ointment seems of to be useful to a restricted volume, to maybe the first millimeters of the skin. We evolved totally transparent proteins that are hard, resilient and harmless. We have them in the eyes so we know how to do it. If we could only suggest the body to temporarily accumulate those proteins in the upper layers of the skin, or we could inject temporarily the proteins in local areas of interest that would be awesome (and maybe safe as long as is our own human protein)... On the skin the continuous shedding of the upper layers would probably self-fix the stuff.