bioluminescence
Submitted 8 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Spider89@lemmy.world 8 months ago
RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Oh, but you are. You just can’t see it.
OpenStars@startrek.website 8 months ago
Be the change you want to see in the world - with Crispr!
- advertising in the future
Pro-Tip: please don’t actually do that.:-D
Mikufan@ani.social 8 months ago
Why not? That might be a very cool way to burn leftover calories.
OpenStars@startrek.website 8 months ago
Someone could step up, and be the first to do that experiment, for the sake of science!?
Pro-Tip: please, Please, PLEASE don’t actually do that!:-P
DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I heard that in my head as a plasmid advertisement from Bioshock.
OpenStars@startrek.website 8 months ago
As you should… as you should. :-)
underisk@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
There are UV reactive tattoo inks. Not exactly the same but pretty close, and probably safer than trying to manipulate your genes.
RatBin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They had a whole sets of beauty products based on radium in the 20’s of the past century. They had several peculiarities such as natural luminescence and a unique place white colour that used to shine in the darkness. I needn’t to say that this was obviously one of the most dangerous and damaging things you could apply to your body. tho-radia was a body lotion and a brand that took pride in using radium in many ways, including a product for teeth. Radioactive theets, imagine that. I hope you don’t come across one of those old bottles in an antique shop, as they are still dangerous.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The 20’s of last century… Still not getting used to that
underisk@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
UV tattoo ink is one of the only inks that have been approved by the FDA (for animal use). They’ve been used for a long time in livestock. Not that that should make you comfortable with sticking into your skin or anything, but it’s probably not quite the same as powdering your face with radium.
While we’re on the subject of historically misguided applications of radioactive materials: ever heard of uranium glass? People get real weird around spicy rocks.
Droechai@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I think the idea of radium wallpapers are awesome, and if I could get a safe variant to use in the basement as a guide to the fuse box it would be an instant buy
maculata@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I also hate that OP isn’t bioluminescent. Pathetic. Clearly not trying hard enough.
i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Fun fact… Folks can glow after chemotherapy.
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 8 months ago
That’s cool! Is it permanent or will I have to cut the power to a chemotherapy hospital ward to see glowy humans?
ooterness@lemmy.world 8 months ago
leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl 8 months ago
this reminded me of the clock girls story, “radium girls”, I think.
but since bioluminescence is powered differently, it’s a way better approach than artificial splashes of paint.
RatBin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s fairly easy to find radium dials up to these days. You can spot them based on the yellowish and crumbling look of the paint or once luminous compounds. They may not be glowing any longer but they retain their radioactivity. By contrast, tye greenish white paint on dials is usually tritium.
TheBat@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Eat Uranium
Mikufan@ani.social 8 months ago
No, eat the funny blue glowing ball from the scrapyard.
EchoCranium@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball
Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Have you checked for Triboluminescence?
Lucien@hexbear.net 8 months ago
I hate that I can’t photosynthesize.
TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 8 months ago
A built-in flashlight app would be nice.
servobobo@feddit.nl 8 months ago
Don’t let your dreams be just dreams and peer into the infrared spectrum where you, too, can emit visible light!
JoYo@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
You know you can just take the post, no one cares who tweeted it in 2021.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Technically you are, just at a frequency your eyes aren’t tuned to see.
Apparently humans actually have zebra stripes when illuminated under the right circumstances.
owen@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Yeah in the blacklight at the furry con
idunnololz@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Nuh uh. I’m a Scalie.
huginn@feddit.it 8 months ago
Idk if blackbody radiation counts as bioluminescence
Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Technically humans are also photosynthetic just not in a way that’s useful to make food.
Mikufan@ani.social 8 months ago
I mean vitamin D is kinda necessary for us to live…
So in a way we are…
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Uh yeah, no.
Bioluminescense relies on pigments and specific proteins involved to convert energy to a visible wavelength of light. This isn’t the same as the arbitrary calories we burn to maintain homeostasis or the resulting black body radiation.
That being said, gene therapy really has come a long way and bioluminescense is pretty well understood to the point of being an undergrad lab in intro bio, so really, there is nothing stopping you from GMO’ing yourself to have glowing pigments.
Also, if you making the claim we’ve got zebra stripes under some conditions, please explain those conditions.
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
If different types of cells looked different, we would have zebra stripes. I think only geneticly female people would though, for the same reason only geneticly female cats can be calico.
OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 8 months ago
What’s concerning is figuring out the evolutionary advantage of being able to hide from predators who have eyes 1000x more sensitive to light than anything on Earth…
Mikufan@ani.social 8 months ago
Maybe an Artifact of evolution. That’s what happens when you dont Defragment your DNA every now and then!