• Phenomephrene@thebrainbin.org
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    20 hours ago

    Vanta Black

    I’m gambling that the experience of it would mitigate how much of a pain in the ass the repercussions would be.

    Edit: I suppose I ought to have looked before, but this appears to be not the healthiest decision (who’d have though‽). Maybe we’ll go with some kind of closest equivalent nontoxic paint?

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      15 hours ago

      Vantablack isn’t really paint, it’s a coating of nanotubes the size of an atom. I wonder what that would feel like.

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        Yeah, after I looked at it a bit and saw that exposure to/inhaling nanotubes probably isn’t the greatest idea I figured nontoxic paint was the next go to.

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          It’s also grown on aluminum rather than applied as a paint IIRC. You’ll have to go with basic hardware store stuff if you want to go for a dip, probably.

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      20 hours ago

      On the morbidly curious side of things, I do wonder what such a person looks like. You would just notice the eyes and the hair. Everything else would just be stark contrast.

      There’s also the whole, “went vanta black face” issue