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  • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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    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.

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      Yeah in the blacklight at the furry con

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        Nuh uh. I’m a Scalie.

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      Idk if blackbody radiation counts as bioluminescence

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      Technically humans are also photosynthetic just not in a way that’s able to make food.

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      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…

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      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
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        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.

        CORRECTION: This happens in both sexes. The difference between cells comes from whether each cell uses one parent’s X chromosome or the other parent’s. This decision happens when there’s just 100 or so cells, so the different cells spread like rock layers as they divide, leaving stripes of them covering the body.

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          If different types of cells looked different, we would have zebra stripes.

          Ok. Show me that.

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            An article:

            https://www.sciencealert.com/you-can-t-see-it-but-humans-actually-glow-in-visible-light

            The paper:

            https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0006256

            It’s pretty old, no idea about folowups

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              Thanks.

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                Also: Blaschko’s lines

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  • Dr. Coomer@lemmy.world
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    Oh, but you are. You just can’t see it.

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    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

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      • OpenStars@startrek.website
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        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

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            That would be pretty awesome! 😎 :-P

            “Doctor, give me the glow-up 🌟 please!?”:-D

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            We do that all the time to diagnose cancer.

            Except the glow is gamma rays from radioisotopes that clump up in fast replicating cells (i.e. tumors) but potato potato, do you want your insides to glow or not?

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      I heard that in my head as a plasmid advertisement from Bioshock.

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        As you should… as you should. :-)

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    There are UV reactive tattoo inks. Not exactly the same but pretty close, and probably safer than trying to manipulate your genes.

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      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 pale 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 teeth, imagine that. I hope you don’t come across one of those old bottles in an antique shop, as they are still dangerous.

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        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 it 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.

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          I forgot about uranium glass! That looks cool…too bad uranium is what it is. Anyway here’s a radium dial or what remains of that: https://postimg.cc/WhWWY0Sc

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        The 20’s of last century… Still not getting used to that

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        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

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          The safest variant are tritium capsules, that contain a small amount of tritium of various colours, within a robust glass capsule. Tritium is one of those mildly radioactive compounds that can only emit up to alpha and beta rays, which are conveniently limited by the glass container. Radium emits a small amount of gamma rays, those can pierce through glass and iron. Now, phosphorus is the element that gave the name to the phosphorescence phoenomenon, so it is a relatively safe light-sensible coating that can have a small glow in the dark according to how much light it absorbed before, but in large amounts it isn’t good. Marco lodola used neon astethics to make these sulptures that are basically made of light in a dark room:

          https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=marco+lodola&form=HDRSC3&first=1 I’ve seen some of these firsthand, they’re amazing, and rather large.

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            Tritium is one of those mildly radioactive compounds that can only emit up to alpha and beta rays

            An alpha particle is a helium-4 nucleus. Tritium is smaller than that, so it can’t undergo alpha decay. I think it just beta-decays into helium-3 by spitting out an electron from its nucleus.

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            That’s so cool:)

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    I also hate that OP isn’t bioluminescent. Pathetic. Clearly not trying hard enough.

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    Fun fact… Folks can glow after chemotherapy.

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      That’s cool! Is it permanent or will I have to cut the power to a chemotherapy hospital ward to see glowy humans?

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    Be the change you want to see in the world.

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    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.

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      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.

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    Eat Uranium

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        Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball

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    Have you checked for Triboluminescence?

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    Don’t let your dreams be just dreams and peer into the infrared spectrum where you, too, can emit visible light!

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    A built-in flashlight app would be nice.

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    I hate that I can’t photosynthesize.

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    You know you can just take the post, no one cares who tweeted it in 2021.

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