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Well, I suppose it depends on which vampire legends the one you're facing at the time rose up from... But yeah, werewolves for sure.

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Bright blue like a smurf, maybe. Blue like the "blue" silver turns you, not so much.

(link posted by brucej up above)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Da...

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Wikipedia calls it "purple-grey"

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JFC, especially them!

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I like claim #2- makes this stuff sound like the leading character in a romance novel, and not your current lump of a spouse, you poor dear.

Credit where credit's due...

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But think of the Star Trek cosplay possibilities ...

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I understand there are certain organic mercury products you can absorb right through your skin! A former Dartmouth colleague of mine demonstrated this; that's why she's a former colleague.https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

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My Dartmouth colleague Karen Wetterhahn died horribly from a few drops of dimethyl mercury that penetrated her gloves and then her skin.

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I love his newsletter!

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But orange goes so well with blue! A new character: jailbird smurf

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I’m guessing the copy writer has the last name of Silver.

https://media0.giphy.com/me...

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Bad religion and bad science go hand-in-pseudopod.

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Most boring comment in the world, I know, but as I was reading that bit about

It's been tested on other strains of the coronavirus, and has been able to eliminate it in 12 hours. Totally eliminate it. Kills it. Deactivates it.

I couldn't help but wonder if this was in vivo or in vitro. I'd be surprised if molten cobalt didn't inactivate coronavirus in vitro, but I'm not going to drink from a crucible of the stuff.

It's like people don't even read for content anymore.

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In vitro. No way to test in vivo

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Silver.

Bigger. Longer. Uncut.

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Am I the only white person who thinks that permanently blue skin might actually be kinda cool?

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