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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You'll drink this until the end of your life. Works the same with molten iron though.

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

I don't actually thing you'd manage to swallow any of the molten iron...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You'd just need one of these:

You just need to get some into your mouth. It will do the swallowing on it's own.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Holy fuck, what is this from?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's an old execution method, but they used molten lead or gold for it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd like to know more. Do you know what it's called?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I do not, but this guy here was apparently the first one who was executed by this method: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manius_Aquillius_(consul_101_BC)#Mithridates_and_death

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

though can only be ingested once

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Based on the posed question and its limiting conditions, elemental mercury is a correct answer. Pure hydrogen peroxide or isopropyl alcohol would qualify, too.

If you include materials which are liquid outside of "room temperature," things like magma and liquid nitrogen would also be correct answers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Olive oil?

You wouldn't live long, but compared to the other options you're listing...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Of the liquids you listed, I think the hydrogen peroxide would be the fastest and most flame-filled death, more than the magma.

100% H2O2 is Very much unlike the 3% kind that can be purchased at a store.
It might even explode, I know shipping tanks of it can and I think that's usually under 100%.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Not quite, actually! I mean, it’s not good for you, but once it’s in your digestive tract it mostly passes straight through rather than being absorbed. The vapor over the liquid is more dangerous, but once you’ve swallowed it that’s not a concern.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

that's exactly why this is the right answer

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nougat is a Lemmy user, presenting to the emergency room unconscious

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nougat is a Kbin user, presenting to the emergency room unconscious

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Why not gallium

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

always gave me a heavy feeling in the pit of my stomach.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I appreciate the creativity, but that is not a drink, good sir/madam...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I posit that any substance which can be ingested as a liquid by pouring it from a container into one's mouth (the act of "drinking") is, by definition, a "drink."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Supposedly, gallium is non-toxic, and liquid at body temperature (though not room temperature).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think you replied to the wrong comment. Mercury is absolutely toxic. There's no safe quantity at all that you can ingest...