Hardware Analysis - What do you guys think of this imaginary product?

Re: What do you guys think of this imaginary product?

Meats_Of_Evil — 2008-05-21T18:55:41-05:00

FordGT90Concept said:

[disclaimer]I would not recommend trying anything mentioned on there just to see if it's true. Anything in excess can be fatal. Too much of a good thing can often end up very, very bad.[/disclaimer]

No, really. I am dead serious. The last thing I want to hear is an HWA member died from injesting an entire carton of Tums...I'm not really helping my cause so I shut up now.

We have to strap MkFly to his office chair, he already swallowed paint. We have to stop him from doing anything else lol.

Re: What do you guys think of this imaginary product?

McFly — 2008-05-21T16:33:35-05:00

FordGT90Concept :: May 21, 2008, 12:52am PDT
Anything in excess can be fatal.

Except kerosene.

Re: What do you guys think of this imaginary product?

Gerritt — 2008-05-21T16:16:50-05:00

Not that I'm suggesting you modify your meds, but......

Although dietary causes are thought to affect urinary colour, this patient's lack of such history and presence of normal-coloured stool did not lend support to a dietary source of his urinary discoloration. In addition, he did not develop a change in his urine colour until presentation to the hospital, making an iatrogenic cause of this discoloration likely. The patient's only medications prior to the onset of green urine had consisted of metoclopramide. In a similar case, a patient who had presented with nausea and vomiting developed green urine after receiving cimetidine and promethazine HCl (Phenergan) [1]. FD&C Blue No.1 has been detected in the urine of patients who had been receiving this food dye in their enteral feedings and the authors concluded that absorption of this dye may cause dark green discoloration of urine [2,3]. It is of note, however, that one of these patients had also received metoclopramide [2]. Other drugs that have been associated with green urine include propofol [4,5], methylene blue [6,7] and methocarbamol [6].

Re: What do you guys think of this imaginary product?

FordGT90Concept — 2008-05-21T07:52:02-05:00

Tight. You got me trying to recall what actually causes urine to become yellow in the first place (urochrome--waste from processing dead red cells in the liver) and came accross this site which lists pretty much the rainbow of urine and associated causes:
http://www.school-for-champions.com/health/urine_color.htm

[disclaimer]I would not recommend trying anything mentioned on there just to see if it's true. Anything in excess can be fatal. Too much of a good thing can often end up very, very bad.[/disclaimer]

No, really. I am dead serious. The last thing I want to hear is an HWA member died from injesting an entire carton of Tums...I'm not really helping my cause so I shut up now.

Re: What do you guys think of this imaginary product?

Kieran Blenkarne — 2008-05-21T06:38:19-05:00

Drink enough red Bull and you'll be peeing the colour of the sun

Re: What do you guys think of this imaginary product?

FordGT90Concept — 2008-05-21T06:07:10-05:00

Meats of Evil said:

Imagine that, chemiluminescence glow in the dark URINE!

What I do know is that urine is sterile (unless there is an infection) because what appears in the urine was filtered out of the bloodstream via the kidneys. So, if the blood system does not absorb the chemical and the chemical is not removed from the urine by the kidneys in significant quantities, it will not effect the color of your urine. Of course, you can get red/black urine if you are passing kidney stones but that's something you do not want. As far as I know, it is impossible to make urine illuminate in the visual spectrum but...

There is a barium compound that is drank orally, absorbed into the blood stream through the walls of the stomach, and then filtered the moment it hits the kidneys. It doesn't make your urine visibly colorful but it does show up on x-ray images (crazy how efficient healthy kidneys are).

And of course, urine is visible via ultraviolet and infrared (if still warm from being in your body) sensitive cameras. As far as I know, those are the only means to change the "color" of urine but they aren't really changing the color at all. XD

That's not to say there isn't a freak medical condition out there that does but, rest assured, you (in your right mind) shouldn't want it just to have psychedelic urine for the few urinations before it gets old. Even if something were invented, it would probably have to be approved by the FDA before it can be marketed.

Not to give you ideas but fecal can be very colorful and at the same time, far less harmful...

Re: What do you guys think of this imaginary product?

BoT — 2008-05-21T05:58:41-05:00

"i wanna pee on you" dave chapelle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmBRBUZ7UWc&feature=related

Re: What do you guys think of this imaginary product?

john albrich — 2008-05-21T05:40:05-05:00

Also a glow in the dark cat.
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/12/13/514602.aspx

The research supposedly will help with curing some diseases.

Re: What do you guys think of this imaginary product?

Gerritt — 2008-05-20T23:41:16-05:00

Jim, Dr. P.,
I know, I was trying to be just a bit tongue in cheek
BTW I think the same group did it with rabbits as well...

Re: What do you guys think of this imaginary product?

Dragon Peaceful — 2008-05-20T23:20:38-05:00

Gerritt said:

I think I read somewhere about a group of bioengineers that crossed rabbit DNA with some other creature and the rabbit glowed in the dark.
Now if we can get those jokers to stop focusing on curing world hunger, AIDS, cancer, erections, etc., I pretty sure they could whip up a formula for a candy bar that makes your pee glow in the dark.....just think about the energy savings at a keg party!

Gerritt

Gerritt, it's mice, created first by Japanese scientists by splicing glowing jellyfish genes to mice embryos. Here's the article, http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/277/5322/41c

It's for medical research, not for lighting purpose. LOL

Re: What do you guys think of this imaginary product?

MrBungle — 2008-05-20T22:45:10-05:00

Gerritt said:

why not try to make the people glow in the dark so they don't have to p**s all over everything to get adequate lighting?

Re: What do you guys think of this imaginary product?

Gerritt — 2008-05-20T22:22:00-05:00

Re: What do you guys think of this imaginary product?

Josh Deuley — 2008-05-20T21:54:40-05:00

I once ate about 15 flintstone vitamins and it really changes the color of your pee! I was drunk... not sure why I did it. At the time I thought I was peeing neon green... didn't glow in the dark though.

Re: What do you guys think of this imaginary product?

Meats_Of_Evil — 2008-05-20T17:45:19-05:00

_MD_ said:

The neon you're talking about is a gas and requires current for particles to get excited and light up. If you mean a chemical reaction, I'd suggest "chemiluminescence". Components required: hydrogen peroxide solution (as an "activator") and a solution of phenyl oxalate ester and a fluorescent dye (which makes the colour). I can hardly imagine that the elements above can in any way be safe to digest.

Ah yeah MD thanks for that tip, my chemistry is worse than an 8 year old, never paid much attention in that class.

Dr. Peaceful said:

Jeez, from the title, I thought you were talking about a computer software. LOL Listen, DON'T drink anything funny just for the heck of having your urine glow in the dark! It may be hazardous to your health, seriously!

Hah! just being creative here. I would wish it wasn't hazardous in any way to the human digestive system. But imagine if it weren't. If there is such a product in existence I wouldn't doubt it exists in Japan, I've seen the craziest candy and beverages over there.

Well the question still stands, will you drink it if it wasn't hazardous? And what would you do while urinating?

Re: What do you guys think of this imaginary product?

McFly — 2008-05-20T16:50:58-05:00

Jim H said:

well they weren't before we started drinking paint to change the color of our urine but now that we've gone that far i guess moose feces is fair game.

lol