Noxulous

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I am an open book to the inquisitive, im reasonable and will answer any question, regardless of how forward or strange. Im a non-human non-person eldritch entity with strange values, strange priorities, and strange interests. I respond to Nox.

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I am perpetually poor and would like to commission a thing that's been eating my mind for years.

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30 year old nonhuman, masculine nullgender, tentatively bi with a heavy female/femme lean. Poly.

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So... I found a small german site dedicated to biohacking, and on this they had a method of doing easy, diy tattoos that used living microalgae (the good kind of course?) As the ink.

Why is this so exciting to me?

Because there is already research that proves that;

  1. its safe, even in quantity (more on that later)
  2. the research in question states it can live off of our blood without invading the body, and supply oxygen to the bloodstream safely.
  3. presumably as the microalgae reached the end of its lifecycle, it will have reproduced enough of itself to replace it, and the dead algae will be safely absorbed as free nutrients to the body (B vitamins, minerals, protein etc)
  4. its diy, and thus open source, so anyone can do it.

Before bringing up the site in question i promised research didnt i? Here it is;

The first is a human trial on full thickness skin wounds getting a living microalgae scaffold covering in place of an ordinary skin graft, showing that not only were there no adverse effects, but they healed better and their skin grew into the scaffold and lived among the algae in a mutual symbiosis.

The second is unfortunately just an abstract about treating rats with diabetes and chronic wounds being treated with similar gel patches full of algae to supply oxygen to the extremities of the rats and to support accelerated wound healing.

Skin grafts? Rats with diabetes? What am i getting at?

The algae was still alive, inside the patient's skin, proven time and time again not to cause rejection of any kind, and as its still alive, it was supplying oxygen to the body while living off the blood, and more to the point... Photosynthesizing.

Microalgae produce the majority of oxygen on earth and by some estimates are 400 times better at producing oxygen than trees by weight. Now imagine having that kind of oxygenation built directly into your skin. You'd become resistant to air pollution, maybe evenacting to remediate your personal carbon footprint (i know its corporations who need to be doing that but thats a different discussion) and you would become resistant to suffering low blood oxygen levels because you'd be breathing through your skin as well. Then theres the dead microalgae, as it dies your body will just absorb it, nutrient and all (see figure 3) replaced by fresh cells, a permanent, green, living tattoo that protects your body and potentially makes cardio a little easier (oxygenated limbs at the source means less huffing and puffing, no?)

Ive kept you waiting long enough, what am i actually talking about?

Here it is;

Most of whats in this link is theoreticals about this being a more common practice, but it also contains a demonstration video on how to build and use a special yet highly simple diy tattoo gun made with the sole purpose of tattooing the algae into your skin, along with a demonstration of how it looked at first, and how it looked later.

I want this, ive wanted this since i found the skin graft trial. Look im diabetic but im constantly paying attention to scientific news and innovation to give myself an edge in not only comtrolling it, but beating it, and this offers a way to control the symptoms, but also potentially turn the tide. (There are lots of studies about microalgae helping weight loss, reduction of triglycerides, bad cholesterol and even improving insulin sensitivity which is the cause of type 2 diabetes)

This is a future i want to actualize, this is what i feel biohacking should be. Cosmetic changes are cool, gender affirming transition techniques are a form of biohacking that tangibly helps the user though and i think we need more of it. This is the more. Green tattoos, that are alive, and supply you with extra oxygen.

EDIT: the bacteria used in the tattoo video would have a higher upkeep and net loss than is worthwhile. I have pivoted to spirulina due to its high oxygen production and very low oxygen consumption in total darkness. credit to @vaporware for raising the question


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That is extremely cool!! I just want to know how for the purposes of tattooing they can be sure that only algae and not any fungus or bacteria will be getting in there. Since it's a living plant matter being injected it can't be pasteurized or whatever they do to make ink sterile before injections...

I want to try this though, I want living tattoo.

like how much oxygen can this supply? cure for asthma attack levels?? cause i just spent like half the day sitting down doing nothing cause of asthma....

EDIT hmm from the one study it seems like when the microalgae was in darkness it consumed oxygen? so i wonder if it would actually be a net benefit if it made it harder to get oxygen at night while sleeping.

The strain of algae this uses is synechocystis which only needs 5 minutes of sunlight to subsist on glucose in your blood, presumably also respirating in the mean time.

Also maybe! The rat study states its over 100 times more effective than hyperbaric oxygen treatment, i choose to think that its potential is incredible

The exact strain is synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 feel free to look at it yourself, you may find something i missed~

Its definitely in my plants one day, implantable tech is cool when its useful, and to answer your above question about asthma attacks; im uncertain honestly. My assumption is they'd maybe be less common, or feel less distressing, they'd still happen because asthma attacks have more to do with absorbing oxygen in the lungs etc than doing so in the cells. So your lungs would still malfunction but it might not be as lethal, if at all. You wouldnt suffocate because of a backup source of cellular oxygen. I do think you'd need a ton of tattoos though.

It IS worth noting also that spirulina supposedly treats asthma, is anti-inflammatory and improves oxygen uptake. So it may be more efficacious than i think.

So is it gonna grow under there? I guess if you're not down with being all-green and it's really fixed to that one tissue layer you could create a boundary line with silver that'd discourage expansion, who'd have thought the ron paul colloidal silver guys were just transhumanists ahead of their time

There are natural boundaries actually, so they can only spread within secters of the dermis they initially enter

It cant really live in our blood either, but it can survive on its nutrients, so the risk of becoming a full blown symbiont or you know... Just dying because of it are extremely remote (i wont say 0% chance because absolutism isnt scientific)

I'm more of an ill-advised mechanical engineering type, given my dismal track record with keeping houseplants alive it's probably for the best if I don't become one

My perspective isnt so much that the last link should be taken at face value on its own, thats ehy i researched the topic from a medical trial perspective as well. I researched around the topic of algae topical treatments and inferred its efficacy from the more reputable trials conducted on people and rats. The oxygenation theory, the wound healing bit, and its ability to survive in the skin theoretically is what im basing my hypothesis on, not this one design student.

The student just gave me a usable schematic for how to accomplish a test on myself. I will be the trial, and i anticipate a mild to nonexistent immune response.