Comments on: Isotopically delicious!

Isotopically delicious!

greatgefilte — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:44:24 -0800

Mikhail Shchepinov believes that eating food enhanced with more isotopes can lead to longer lives. What could go wrong?

By: saraswati

saraswati — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:48:50 -0800

If becoming Spiderman is wrong, I don't want to be right

By: Chinese Jet Pilot

Chinese Jet Pilot — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:51:21 -0800

Sounds good. But how does it taste?

By: ZenMasterThis

ZenMasterThis — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:51:23 -0800

So this neutron walks into a bar and orders a beer. He asks the bartender "How much?", to which the bartender replies: For you: no charge."

By: eriko

eriko — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:53:25 -0800

Two hydrogen atoms are walking down the road, and one says "Shit, I lost an electron." The other asks "Are you sure?" "I'm *positive.*" A p-bar walks into a bar and explodes.

By: eriko

eriko — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:54:22 -0800

But how does it taste? A little strange, at first, but it has a lot of charm.

By: gurple

gurple — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:56:34 -0800

Corn has an unusually high proportion of C13 atoms. As of the last few decades, Americans eat obscene amounts of corn in various forms. That corn-fed cow burger is now health food, I suppose.

By: lekvar

lekvar — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:05:03 -0800

Arrrrg! The puns! Addressing the post, I'm reminded of the radium craze of the previous century (read more here, thanks, cenoxo). Why can't we just eat, y'know, food?

By: drjimmy11

drjimmy11 — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:16:57 -0800

Up And At Them!

By: Malor

Malor — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:28:21 -0800

...'But if only a small proportion of the food hydrogen atoms are replaced by deuterium and only a small proportion of those leaked into the body, the resulting concentrations would be unlikely to cause any damage.' Promising as that sounds,... Wait. That sounds promising? I think, perhaps, we're setting the bar a wee bit low these days.

By: papakwanz

papakwanz — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:38:05 -0800

make love to me, drjimmy11

By: revgeorge

revgeorge — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:17:14 -0800

What could go wrong? There, I fixed that for you.

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:43:38 -0800

The guys down at marketing will have their jobs cut out for them trying to think of a more consumer-friendly name for heavy water that doesn't sound fattening.

By: eriko

eriko — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:53:44 -0800

consumer-friendly name for heavy water It's Neutralized™!

By: ninjew

ninjew — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:55:37 -0800

It's radioactive weaponized food day on metafilter.

By: stevis23

stevis23 — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:42:20 -0800

Ah, I see, Alexander Litvinenko was just a victim of a health food craze gone wrong.

By: pax digita

pax digita — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:18:24 -0800

I've wondered why we don't irradiate food to preserve it. My chem instructor, back in the day, used to talk about how you'd be able to buy vacuum-wrapped irradiated steaks that weren't refrigerated but wouldn't spoil as long as the plastic retained its integrity.

By: Malor

Malor — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:32:41 -0800

We did that for awhile, pax. They used to have irradiated milk. But it always tasted a little funny, like it was on the edge of spoiling, and ultimately the 'don't nuke my food!' crowd won out and it was all taken off the shelves.

By: A Thousand Baited Hooks

A Thousand Baited Hooks — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:44:13 -0800

pax digita - three reasons: 1. It may or may not reduce the food's nutritional value, by destroying some of the beneficial chemicals. Not sure what the latest scientific word on this is. 2. It may or may not create strange, possibly toxic compounds in the food. Not sure about this one either. 3. It gives food processors an excuse to care even less about contamination, refrigeration and proper storage. Imagine a slaughterhouse where bacteria are instantly killed at the end of the production line - 'Hey, we don't even have to hose the shit off the meat any more!'. Anyway, the main post made me think of an article I read ages ago about radiation hormesis. Interesting stuff, although at the moment Wikipedia thinks it's discredited.

By: greatgefilte

greatgefilte — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 06:06:54 -0800

I got one! Did you hear about the neutrino with a small oscillation angle that started using Axe deodorant? Women were so attracted to him that he was being lepton at all occasions. ok, it's horrible, but I felt left out

By: ryanrs

ryanrs — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:49:01 -0800

Doesn't deuterium disable many important biological compounds? I recall hearing that enzymes containing D had a slightly different 'shape' which impaired their function. (Experts, pls hope me!)

By: Iax

Iax — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:56:27 -0800

If you replaced all the water someone was drinking with heavy water would that mess them up? And how much weight would it make them gain?