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[–] javasux@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago
[–] BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago (4 children)
[–] thenextguy@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

Now I lay me down to bed
Darkness won’t engulf my head
I can see by infrared
How I hate the night

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

yhea, but so does any warm object.

[–] BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Still technically bioluminescence

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

if i heat up a fossil, would it still count as bioluminescence?

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

they are technically still bio related.

what if I warm them with my body?

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

I'm out of my depth now.

[–] BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

non answer, my skin is warm due to thermal conduction from the inside of the body, skin itself generates heat from metabolism, but very little compared with the organs/muscles

[–] BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thermal energy is still bioluminescence. Ask a pit viper. Sea creatures create visible light bioluminescence because they have no body temperature.

Also, I have no idea wtf you are talking about. Every living cell in your body generates heat. Correct, some cells use more energy than others but there is the identical machinery inside every cell.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Besides basic housekeeping machinery, different cells are very different, especially when talking about their metabolism.

Adiposites are practically dead, as they have very little metabolism, while liver and brains are very active, muscles too when being used. skin has very little metabolism, and the epidermis (outer skin layer) has absolutely no metabolism.

I could talk more, got a cell biology degree and a phd in genomics. but I'm at the ivory throne and don't want my legs to stop their metabolism due to the seat stopping the blood flow.

[–] BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So you agree with me. All cells metabolize, therefore all cells internally generally bioluminescence.

except that the epidermis has no metabolism, only conduct heat from the inside, where the dermis makes a little heat, but conducts the heat from further inside the body.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

heat up anyone enough, and they will glow in visible spectrum.

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 25 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Glad i'm not. Can you imagine the kind of dumb social edict that would have built up around that?

Retail Employee, on their 10th day in a row with no overtime because the schedule got thrown together at the last minute again: [briefly shining above the infrared before fading back again] Hello sir, is there anything I can help you with today?

Customer [so angry he's strobing] How dare you! It's bad customer service to greet me with such pitiful luminescence! I've never been so insulted! Where is your manager?

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Today we are not only glowing in our skins in our Walmart team Bio-Blue^Tm^ tones, but with excitement for our performance reviews! Anyone glowing out of sync or the wrong will placed on our Glow Up Blue Enthusiasm Enrichment Course.

Anyone spotted feeling red will be written up. Remember to keep your home colors home.

I refuse any fantasy where we did not figure out how to change our glow colors on demand.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 10 points 2 months ago

Humans are, it's just very dim

[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There'd also probably be luminescence-based racism since different people would shine with a slightly different color.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What if I told you, you were, but you just can't see it. :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaschko%27s_lines

[–] AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Fascinating. But isn’t this akin to stripes on a tiger or zebra, just visible in a different electromagnetic spectrum?

Whereas bioluminescence involves producing/emitting light like fireflies.

[–] Codpiece@feddit.uk 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Total jackass genie move. Shoulda said you wanted to be bioluminescent in the spectrum visible to humans!

[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

All I want is a prehensile tail.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

And wings! For, uh, reasons

[–] Forester@pawb.social 13 points 2 months ago
[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As someone that struggles to sleep in a room with any light; this sounds awful.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Same. Especially if your eyelids are bioluminescent!

[–] yuri@pawb.social 5 points 2 months ago

is THIS why i’m so enraptured with tritium accessories?

[–] mo_lave@reddthat.com 4 points 2 months ago
[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 4 points 2 months ago

Wasn't a crispr kit only a few hundred euros?

[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can just mail order custom crispr sequences and genes. Is it lack of knowledge or lack of fortitude that stops you?

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if anyone used these yet to turn down their myostatin or something

[–] insurgentrat@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bro I'm Natty bro.

I earned these gains.

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 points 2 months ago
[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

You can fix it with an sight seeing tour in Chernobyl.

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

You are, just not in the part of the spectrum visible to humans

[–] NuraShiny@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Depends where. I'd love removed genitals.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

This is yet another case of "the censor makes it look like there's maybe a slur under there."

I'm sure the "removed" word is absolutely innocuous but its removal makes me imagine a worse word in its place.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I remember a Star Trek Voyager episode where Ensign Kim had sex with an alien and began to glow. If you see someone glow, they've been canoodling with ET.