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Can I Put it in my Ass? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

That's great! because a surprising amount of research was done (way more than anticipated). You will learn some crazy things by studying this. All elements are in solid form at STP so for the gasses that's in the range of -200 C. Someone suggested doing a version with liquid and gas enemas but you know? I'm just not that dedicated (yet)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My first thought was "why is nitrogen dangerous?" but I was thinking about it at room temperature or around 20C.

I know about decompression sickness (the bends) but I wouldn't expect that to be a problem at 1 atmosphere. Then I stumbled upon isobaric counterdiffusion and I wondered if that could happen from pumping any pure gas into the rectum at atmospheric pressure, since it'd be at a higher partial pressure than any gas in the tissue.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah I think gasses in the rectum have several severe issues that liquids don't have. Mostly because liquids don't exert pressure. Could get pretty in-depth.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Going in deep, you say

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

How, uh dedicated are you?

It’s for science, so someone has to do it,

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why not iodine?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I was informed by someone that elemental iodine is actually toxic when not in salt form. Could be true/false?