Ich schälte Kartoffeln und bemerkte, dass die Schalen zu glühen begannen, als ich darauf herumschlug … sind sie sicher?
Von: Gravy-Train1
Ich schälte Kartoffeln und bemerkte, dass die Schalen zu glühen begannen, als ich darauf herumschlug … sind sie sicher?
Von: Gravy-Train1
39 Comments
Do you grow those or buy them at the store?
“Potatoes do this all the time. It is normal.” -Chernobyl Agronomist and Politruk
“Bioluminescent potatoes are genetically engineered plants designed to act as biosensors by glowing when under stress, which can warn farmers of issues like drought, extreme temperatures, or disease. These potatoes are not for consumption, as they are intended to be used as signal crops and are grown separately. Scientists have engineered them using genes from jellyfish and other fluorescent proteins that react to specific stresses by emitting a visible or detectable light.”
Not for consumption.
Hold on there’s a story about soldiers with glowing wounds [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photorhabdus_luminescens](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photorhabdus_luminescens) I think this is the most likely culprit, but if anyone else has got a better theory I’d love to hear it.
Glotato
Try it on a non transparent surface. It may be a product of the glass/plexi top catching the light. It’s the same color and brightness as the surface scratches.
Do this in the dark, and film it, please.
Curious what’s on your finger that’s doing that, since the table also glows where you touched it. Maybe the potato isn’t bioluminescent, but it’s you and your new super power.
Potato super powers when eaten. Watch out for the villain, the masher!
There’s an old nuclear facility in S.E. Idaho. Hmmmm.
This is a new one.
Glow-tatoes.
do you live in the mojave by any chance?
I’m guessing it’s due to some sort of bacteria? You could try r/microbiology
This post is entirely too nonchalant. YOUR POTATOES ARE GLOWING. I would like to buy some for seed please.
3 hours in and the only answers are:
– Person claiming something without a source
– Person calling it AI
– 98% jokes
Report this to stop and shop. Someone harvested the wrong field.
Op maybe try cross posting this to r/whatisthisthing or r/farming.
/r/agriscience seems pretty quiet, but you could give it a shot.
You should also maybe reach out to the grocery store. If potatoes grown as markers not meant to be consumed ended up on the shelf they will absolutely want to know.
It could be a bioluminescent bacteria
They aren’t supposed to harvest and sell those.
Just what ive learned by some Research on google
Bioluminescent potatoes are bio engineered and real…
But, they shouldn’t be in circulation since they where made by a university with very limited space…they where made to show stress…there are measurable differences between stress glowing because they need water, or being stressed by pests
It’s safe to say you should not consume them, if you have and feel bad, call a doctor or a med line
I’d find out where they are from and contact the producer
Bioluminescent potatoes can have very high levels of solanine, a pretty strong toxin which can be lethal…people who know why Lumpur Irish tayers are regulated so heavy know exactly how bad this can be
Honestly you might wanna go to the hospital with the potatoes just in case! And call poison control.
Will pooping in your yard now create the cheapest ever Halloween decoration?
This is the most wtf post ive seen in this sub.
I kind of think it’s light traveling through the plexiglass and glowing in the juice. Like those fiber optic toys that glow different colors.
Commenting in case anyone finds out what this is.
Looks to me like wherever oil is touching the glass the light in the glass comes out. I don’t think the potato is producing light, and I think any oil (or maybe even any liquid) would do the same thing in these lighting conditions.
I find it highly suspect that the table gets a glow spot when you touch it – and the scratches also glow. Sure looks like something on your finger and a uv light to me…
Feed them to your dog and you won’t need a flashlight to go on walks at night
Or it’s paint on your finger
Hey don’t eat that.
Oh.
How the hell did you even get your hands on those? They’re not sold at safeway or home depot …. or shouldn’t be at least
You know at least one of them farmers has sent a fair few of these soaring through the night sky from their glow-tato gun.
Shick-shick…THUNK!
“Tharr she glows!”
10 hrs later. OP alive?
Honest question…
https://imgur.com/a/oijsfNs
Why is one of your fingerprints NOT on the potato glowing as well? It almost looks like there is glass or something?
Why is this not on r/weird
Stop you’re hurting him 🙁
https://preview.redd.it/qu1h0i1j8exf1.jpeg?width=1916&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ed1a8b38eeca869a98160cd18e950fee917bc920
had potatoes for lunch?
No, there’s no bioluminescence going on here. What’s happening is when you’re mashing them down like that, you’re squeezing water out, which is causing them to adhere to the glass plate and letting the light that’s being transmitted inside the rest of the plate come through. (It’s got something to do with the refractive index and physics to *really* explain.) But anyway, it’s basically acting like side-lighting on a kindle paperwhite or something.