Dots!

I mean, you can heat any old rock & make it look like that ... what I'm saying is that every rock, when heated to 500+°C, will gain delicious orange flavour, but scientists don't want you to know that!!
- I wanna taste that blue Cherenkov tang
  
  Evidently plutonium just tastes metallic. And radium is flavorless.
  What I'm saying is people have tasted these things.
  
  I wanted to say the same - that blue color reminds me of blueberry with some mint for freshness!
  
  ...blue raspberry gatorade...
  
  The food colouring they add to the orange juice (from those pods) makes it actually taste better!

"From a purely chemical standpoint, (plutonium) is about as poisonous as lead and other heavy metals. Not surprisingly, it has a metallic taste."
- I was about to say that in the 40s and 50s someone ~~probably~~ taste it.
- Zomg, where are all the warning labels???
- The best way to tell precisely how spicy your rock is, is to taste it. That's just basic science, if you ask me.
- Given that lead acetate is sweet, would plutonium acetate do the same?
  anyone wants to help me set up a charity where we give "last meals" to terminal patients using toxic ingredients just for them to describe how they taste?

Fun fact: a gram of plutonium contains about 20 billion calories. Yum.
- And it goes straight to my hips. By which I mean the bone marrow in my pelvis.
  
  These hips don't lie : you got cancer
  
  Why the pelvis specifically? How did it get there? What were you doing with it?
  
  Hey, sexy bone-marrow pelvis, shake them atomic gains!
  (OK, but like, if I produced synthetic plutonium I would make the box look like a chocolate box. Those workers & engineers deserve to have a fun work environment, engage in some shenanigans, make an oopsie from time to time.)
- This is a commonly quoted fun fact that is not really true. There are 2 different definitions of calorie. One means the absolute amount of energy in an object, the other means the bioavailable amount of energy that a human can extract from it using their digestive system.
  So every physical object that exists has some amount of potential energy contained within it which we can express in calories, but that doesn't mean it has any bioavailable calories. For example glass has some significant amount of energy contained within it, but it has 0 bioavailable calories.
  This "fun fact" mixes up the two definitions, making the statement meaningless.
  (Nothing against you OP, this is a commonly repeated falsehood)
  
  this is a commonly repeated ~~falsehood~~ obvious joke
  And, if I have to explain the joke: it's just E=mc² (the Einstein thing ... well, the Einstein's thing's approximation), the energy (E) is the same for all mass (m) since the c is a constant.
  \ You get the same 21 billon kcal from 1g of apples as from 1g of plutonium.
  \ And since it's usually well known humans do not devour mass into pure energy that might trigger ppls sense of humour.
  \ (Additionally the idea of eating metal to seek nutrition might be funny, but we do need some metals m/.)
  Also "potential energy" phrase is weird in that context.
  There are 2 different definitions of calorie.
  \ This "fun fact" mixes up the two definitions
  It's not even two definitions, the kcal is absolutely the same, it's just used to measure two different things (mass energy vs the sum of what an average human can extract via chemical processes). I see you def understand that, but it's not a different definition of a calorie (in the same way as length vs width of an object isn't a different definition of a metre).
  
  Thank you for the clarification. I wanted to go along with the joke of it looking “edible”, but context is appreciated :)
  
  Which definition does full corn kernels fall into?
- If you eat just one bite you'll never have to eat again for the rest of your life!
- Not dietal calories.
  The calorie numbers we assign to food, measure how much energy our body extracts from them when eaten.
  In this context, plutonium is closer to 0
  If we instead want to measure the actual total physical energy content of materia, we would turn to E=mc^2, telling us that a gram of anything has about 20 million kcal, no matter if its plutonium or diet coke. which is a slightly less useful value on food labels :D
  
  Technically it measures how much you can heat up a known volume of water if you burn the food. We have no way of measuring how much of that energy released by combustion actually gets absorbed and translated to ATP in the body, but it’s the best estimation we have of the relative energy content of foods.
  There’s some carbohydrates, proteins, and fats that our bodies don’t seem to convert to energy (or only partially convert) but still technically contain “calories” because they’re combustible. Sugar alcohols, fiber, etc.
  Plutonium doesn’t combust, but it would heat up water in a calorimeter. Really the test method’s applicability kind of falls apart when you start testing undigestible materials.
  
  This is actually an issue with food calories as well. Wood shavings give a high reading in a bomb calorimeter but you can't process them into energy. Same with lots of fiber. And ethanol, in some cases.
- Equivalent-level of fun fact: 1 gram of hay contains that much calories too!
  
  No wonder cows are so fat

The highest calorie last meal
- nah, this is just the appetizer to a big bowl of pasta made out of antimatter.
  
  Antipasti
- Happy cake day!
  
  they got cake day on lemmy too?
  
  Technically, this is processed cake. Yellow cake that is.

We need a cosmological law dictating harmful to humans = boring-looking. I mean, it isn't just plutonium, look at uranium yellowcake! It's lemon flavouring!
- that looks like a sponge x3
  
  It looks like the underside of a microfiber towel
  
  Yellowcake, sponge... lemon flavoured sponge cake?
  
  SpongeBomb SpallatePants
- I like how all these pictures include the radiation fucking up the photo.
- Some Pu solutions for your viewing pleasure:
  
  New Pride Flag for the irradiated wastelands just stopped!
- Square pringles 😋

Isn't it just that color because it's hot? Like, if you cooled those off to room temperature, wouldn't they be metallic gray?
- Cooling down means it's breaking down and no longer plutonium.
  
  I'm talking about thermally cooling it down. If you put it in a freezer it will cool down, but the nuclear process will not change speed.
  
  That’s why they have it in a frying pan
  
  just take a cheese grater to it to make smaller pieces smh

Please reconsider
- please reconsider again, some of them are tasty
  from cody's lab
  
  Yeah. That looks like something Codyslab will do...
- Wtf, no, you should not lick boron, fucking ever. Go lick a piece of lead, it's better for your health
- Wish we had this in chemistry
- According to your table, it's not as bad as that, just not a good idea. E: Wait, missread that as thorium.
  
  The fact that Thorium and Uranium are just "probably not a good idea" makes me think that the scale is based on licking like an ore that contains them rather than the pure element
- In order to lick something at the very least it needs to be liquid, or better yet, solid.
  Trying to kick hydrogen, with this in mind, will be the last lick you ever do in your life

And here I thought plutonium looked like this:
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- Kinda, in solution different oxidation states make pretty colors...
- You mean plutonium doesn't look like a vial of cherry flavored cough syrup suspended in a larger vial of water?

if you can wait a few million years, after few decay steps it turns into lead, which is known to be sweet

Yes, it does look delicious.
But I can't help but think about this being the consequences of dying everything we eat unholy colors. Maybe radioactive material wouldn't be so tasty looking if we didn't give kids candy that looks like radioactive material.
- Counterpoint: fruit
  
  Even oranges aren't neon orange