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[–] javasux@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago
[–] BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] thenextguy@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

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

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

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

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

yhea, but so does any warm object.

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

Still technically bioluminescence

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

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

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

they are technically still bio related.

what if I warm them with my body?

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

I'm out of my depth now.

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

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week 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 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 week ago (2 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 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 1 week ago

Humans are, it's just very dim

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

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

[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

All I want is a prehensile tail.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

And wings! For, uh, reasons

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

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

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Same. Especially if your eyelids are bioluminescent!

[–] yuri@pawb.social 5 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 4 points 1 week ago

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

[–] mo_lave@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago
[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago