Not technically true at all. You would not die of radiation, you'll just poop it out. Maybe fuck up your organs a bit, kidneys and liver but not deadly.
Inhaling this stuff is where it becomes dangerous because it stays in the lungs.
There are far more dangerous things to ingest but nothing with digestible calories. The entire premise is based on ignorance and fear.
You're right about ingesting uranium but the premise of this post was based on ignorance and humour, not ignorance and fear. I'm just stupid not scared.
This is technically incorrect, because calories in food are measured using a bomb calorimeter or similar techniques. In this device a small sample is burned and the heat is measured, which indicates the number of calories it has.
Uranium is fireproof. It has 0 calories.
Even enriched Uranium with a lot of unstable isotopes would not give up noticeable energy/heat in regular sample sizes for this process.
But if we're gonna do the math that way, every atom in the universe has an insane amount of energy.
It's just to get at it, you need to either split or fuse the atoms. Doing this just happens to be easy with uranium, it's not that special in terms of energy density.
And a bomb calorimeter isn't precises either, but it gets close because burning the food is what our bodies do, too.
Although cellular respiration is technically a combustion reaction, it is an unusual one because of the slow, controlled release of energy from the series of reactions.
You are confusing facts with measurements of facts. Uranium has a lot of chemical energy, just like food. Yes it's different and not edible, but this is a flaw in the human body, don't blame uranium for it
The second level of stupid here is that 20 million kcal would last ~ 22 to 27 years (at 2000 to 2500 kcal a day), so not very optimistic about your longevity.
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bklyn@piefed.social · 81 pts · 238d
Technically true, but not for the reason you think
cecilkorik@piefed.ca · 20 pts · 237d
Technically correct, the best kind of correct.
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 237d
Not technically true at all. You would not die of radiation, you'll just poop it out. Maybe fuck up your organs a bit, kidneys and liver but not deadly.
Inhaling this stuff is where it becomes dangerous because it stays in the lungs.
There are far more dangerous things to ingest but nothing with digestible calories. The entire premise is based on ignorance and fear.
Greg@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 237d
You're right about ingesting uranium but the premise of this post was based on ignorance and humour, not ignorance and fear. I'm just stupid not scared.
tanisnikana@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 238d
That’s a thousand days’ worth of kcals.
On the other hand, that’s enough uranium for the rest of one’s life.
mech@feddit.org · 4 pts · 237d
ten thousand
Sarcasmo@piefed.social · 19 pts · 238d
But you'll be hungry again in half an hour.
Ininewcrow@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 237d
It's like Chinese food ... it just goes right through you.
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 10 pts · 238d
the_trash_man@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 236d
Just one slice of yellow cake won't hurt
SalamenceFury@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 237d
And also, bananas are radioactive. If you ate 40.000 bananas in 10 minutes you would die of radioactive poisoning.
jeff@programming.dev · 13 pts · 237d
(me, an American) Well, forty isn't that many.
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 237d
Very, very precisely forty.
edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 237d
Unless it's cakes. That's as many as four tens. And that's terrible.
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 4 pts · 237d
Wasn't entirely sure that 3d.p. of precision is necessary when measuring bananas.
SantasMagicalComfort@piefed.world · 4 pts · 237d
Would it kill you if you shoved forty thousand bananas up your ass in ten minutes?
classic@fedia.io · 3 pts · 237d
Mr Hands as entered the chat
mech@feddit.org · 3 pts · 237d
I'm pretty sure you'd die from something else, but I'm no doctor.
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 237d
From slipping on all the banana peels.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 237d
It's more in the range of 40.000.000 if I remember correctly.
Ininewcrow@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 237d
The pressurized bananas that need to be sent into your system as fast as possible would probably be shot right through your skull.
lurch@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 237d
This is technically incorrect, because calories in food are measured using a bomb calorimeter or similar techniques. In this device a small sample is burned and the heat is measured, which indicates the number of calories it has.
Uranium is fireproof. It has 0 calories.
Even enriched Uranium with a lot of unstable isotopes would not give up noticeable energy/heat in regular sample sizes for this process.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 237d
Just because the human body cannot extract the energy doesn’t mean the energy isn’t there.
Edit: I love the pedants trying to force logic into an absurd post.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 237d
Obviusly.
But if we're gonna do the math that way, every atom in the universe has an insane amount of energy.
It's just to get at it, you need to either split or fuse the atoms. Doing this just happens to be easy with uranium, it's not that special in terms of energy density.
And a bomb calorimeter isn't precises either, but it gets close because burning the food is what our bodies do, too.
Poojabber@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 237d
There is a fire in my belly when I eat?
Greg@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 237d
That explains why my butt hole burns sometimes
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 237d
Not your belly, but in your cells, yes.
The reason you need oxygen, is that your cells use it to "burn" stuff a few atoms at a time, for energy.
It's the same reaction as fire. Oxidation. Though inside our bodies it happens in an extremely controlled manner.
Mubelotix@jlai.lu · 0 pts · 237d
You are confusing facts with measurements of facts. Uranium has a lot of chemical energy, just like food. Yes it's different and not edible, but this is a flaw in the human body, don't blame uranium for it
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 237d
Uranium has nuclear energy.
But if we are gonna count that when discussing food, then every atom has a shitton of energy.
Uranium just happens to be easy to split, hence we can actually use the nuclear energy.
But if you could split the atoms of bread, that's gona release unimagineable amounts of energy, too.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 237d
Doesn't that depend on the specific isotopes? U-238 might be not that much of a problem as one might think...
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 237d
I wonder what the best conversion rate from uranium kcals to human consumable cals would be.
Like is nuclear power to LEDs to plants the best route? Maybe radiation to fungus to some kind of slurry?
janus2@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 237d
sheesh we could just use the heat for yogurt incubators. if it's gotta be slurry why can't it be delicious 😭
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 237d
If you are measuring calories that way, then you have to consider that anything you eat contains e=mc^2^ energy.
Greg@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 237d
That's my excuse for getting fat. Even the air I breathes contains millions of calories
observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 237d
The second level of stupid here is that 20 million kcal would last ~ 22 to 27 years (at 2000 to 2500 kcal a day), so not very optimistic about your longevity.
MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 237d
I'd say that's a pretty optimistic estimate of longevity of someone willing to eat uranium (let alone someone who actually does it)
Greg@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 237d
Swoosh...