Magical blue fluid
It seems like a perfectly reasonable assumption to think that any normal adult would think twice before consuming the viscous, blue fluid that can be located in the Magic 8 Ball. Apparently though, that is not the case. It has become known that two seemingly reasonable human beings took it upon themselves to test the potability of the mysterious fluid. Wait…… What?!? Does that mean what I think it means? They drank that weird, blue liquid from that magical ball? Are they still alive? The answer to all these questions is apparently the same: eeewww, yes! Straight from them:
A Note About the Blue Fluid
Although this report has previously referred to the blue fluid as “presumably harmless”, there is some reason to believe that it is less than potable.
Two human subjects (including one of the authors) volunteered for a non-blind Type I safety trial of the blue fluid. The investigators initially believed the fluid to be water with dissolved dye. The trial subjects self-administered small doses of the fluid to their tongues. Trial subjects reported the following side-effects:
- Hideous taste (100%)
- Numbness of the application area (100%)
- Blue fingertips (100%)
- Headache (50%)
A follow-up study of the experimental subjects after 30 minutes revealed no additional long-term side-effects of blue fluid ingestion. The change in finger color appeared to be a permanent outcome, but involved no other morbidity. The numbness discontinued after a few minutes. However, the authors recommend that no further human trials begin without animal studies.
Personally, I wouldn’t recommend drinking anything out of or from any toys and/or oracles. But I probably wouldn’t frown on taking them apart - that is generally a lot of fun.
Found on MAKE.
