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The Sleeping Ones.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1198154/NASA-news-Astronauts-sleeping-sleep-space-latest-video

or

https://t.me/cosmolet2022/437

or

https://cs14.pikabu.ru/video/2022/09/08/1662659840258988_480x480.webm

P.S.
Never could get, why not equip them all with sleeping muffs.

Spoiler

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P.P.S.
If one end of the fur muff is a former neck, then what's about the other end?

 

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Peroral LD50 of the water is ~90 ml/kg.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication

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an LD50 exceeding 90 ml/kg in rats;[3] drinking 6 liters in three hours has caused the death of a human

Also, (google, the source is error-403-forbidden)

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Some studies indicate that a person can drown in 1 milliliter of fluid for every kilogram they weigh. So, a person weighing around 140 pounds (63.5 kg) could drown after inhaling only a quarter cup of water.

The amount of water contained in the Earth hydrosphere is 1.4*1021 kg.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrosphere

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The total mass of Earth's hydrosphere is about 1.4 × 1018 tonnes


So, the amount of this deadly compound accumulated on the Earth in open storages is enough to kill up to tens of sextillions of people, tens of zettahumans!

Can any other hazardous material be compared to that?

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3 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

An odd number of them. Not a DNA? Doesn't it need U then?

It uses the letters of the bases, not an actual DNA sequence that means anything.

2 hours ago, Maria Sirona said:

Why does that remind me of Ready Player One...

No idea, they’re very different.

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FWIW - that Han Solo action figure was the pride of my 11 year-old self's Star Wars collection.  It got dumped with a whole shoe box stacked solid with the Blue, the Red and the Yellow Topps bubble gum cards by my 16 year old self who decided to 'put away childish things'. 

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23 minutes ago, steve9728 said:

Funny thing I just know: If you leave your sweet prawn sushi a little too long, it probably glow from microbial build-up.

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It has a Cherenkov light-like beauty.

"When it glow up, it makes you throw up!"

I guess it's Nuclear Infected...

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nuclear infected....
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55 minutes ago, steve9728 said:

Funny thing I just know: If you leave your sweet prawn sushi a little too long, it probably glow from microbial build-up.

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It has a Cherenkov light-like beauty.

That is horrifying and fascinating at the same time. 

 

Fun fact: my 'go-to' for bad choices is "the person who buys gas-station vending machine sushi."

Just... No. 

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6 hours ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said:

That is horrifying and fascinating at the same time. 

 

Fun fact: my 'go-to' for bad choices is "the person who buys gas-station vending machine sushi."

Just... No. 

Meanwhile in Japan, many Service Areas (equivalent to American rest stops/rest areas) have a variety of amenities, and some of their food vendors are known to be so exquisite the Service Area is a destination in its own right.

Which I guess is a fun fact of its own.

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41 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

Fallout fill with new sense the "GMO salt" term. 

Yes, THERE even the salt can be GMO. And speak.

Wouldn't everything alive in Fallout be considered a GMO?

Edit: Never mind, because they were nuked, not made in a lab.

The Salt talking breaks my brain

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