Reanimated Rodents and The Meaning of Life
One afternoon in the early 1950s, a young biochemist left his suburban lab bench at Britain’s Mill Hill National Institute of Medical Research and boarded a tube train to Leicester Square. His destination was on nearby Lisle Street, in an area which today makes up part of London’s glittering West End theatre district. But in the post-war years the sector was better known as a hectic hub for two of humanity’s oldest professions. Only one of these was of interest to the young scientist. The girls hawking their wares seemed to sense his single-mindedness and kept their distance as the greenhorn scientist turned his attention to his true quarry: the vast abundance of second-hand military hardware that could be found in the shops lining Lisle Street.
Specifically, he was looking for war surplus radar equipment. His intention was to cannibalize a suitable radio frequency transmitter for the purpose of reanimating dead, frozen hamsters.
Hamsterdance!
Hmm, let’s compare the posts and see how long it takes for *this* thread to turn nasty.
I liked the post about the post-op heart patients who expressed definite changes in subjective perception. I bet the same thing would happen to thawed people.
As for the Gaia stuff, well, I’ve always found it interesting but why bring it up when there’s so little correlative data? Unless that was the point; that perhaps there are Gaian mechanisms to keep life going under nearly any circumstances, and freezing and thawing are possible because they exist? Eh, interesting, but still not working…..
As for religious overtones, hey man, you go when the temple is destroyed.
Must protect the sanctity of death.
That settles it. We must go on killing rampages to balance this out.
If Human Zombies eat brains, do zombie hamsters eat cauliflowers?
Maybe there is some hope for the gerbils that gay guys jammed up their ass.
That’s damn interesting, for sure. I wonder if Phillip K Dick had this research in mind when he extrapolated into corpsicles and the like.
That’s a great site, btw – thanks for the pointer!
There is an interesting article in the May 16 Discover about human reanimation. Very cool stuff-pun intended.
Yeah, but once re-animated, they only had the IQ of hamsters.
Am I missing something here? There is not special or rare.
3. Leave hapless rodents to cool until hearts have stopped beating, respiration has ceased, animals are frozen rigid and are-– by any conventional definition of life– no longer alive
Many people have experience the same event and were re-vived after they accidentally fell through ice.
Indeed Pure water freezes at 0°C and sea water begins to freeze at -2°C (Blood salinity is close to sea water).
“Young children have been immersed in ice water, and been pulled out “dead.” (Heartbeat flat lined, no brain activity.) But a few of those children have been …”
Click on link and read down to “Evidence of resiliency in the human brain”
Myth Busters
10–What is well understood and utilized in everyday medicine today was a theory in 1950.
I’ll bet we are doing miracle stuff today that will be commonplace in 60 years. I hear genetic engineering and nanotechnology might have a break thru or two.
#11 I could be wrong but snow and ice is nothing new.
Sure, back then, they didn’t have our understanding, but; people still survived falling in ice water. They just didn’t know the specifics.
More importantly how much of their understanding and wisdom have we lost in our time?
12–Yes, you are wrong. Subject had nothing to do with snow and ice.
Lots of people were pulled out of icy water and left to die because they weren’t breathing. No breath==no life. Ancient wisdom indeed.
99.9% of past wisdom is useless unless you desire to know how to shoe a horse and so forth. 99.9% of ancient wisdom worth knowing is still with us–eg, pursue your dreams, not money. We all follow that one right?
#13, Yea we have Microsoft, Intel, zombie gerbils, thereby we convince our dumb-ass selfs we are so damn smarter then yesteryear. It is a wonder why we are still scratching our collective noggin-head and cannot say with all certainty how the Egyptian pyramid construction techniques worked.
Being so damn smart and having the worlds most advanced military, we can subdue the people in Vietnam or Iraq with less then 6th grade education in weeks, right?
We are so damn smart, we have only recently figured out proof for xn+yn=zn, whereas; Fermat figured out xn+yn=zn 350 years ago, he just did not supply the proof.
I guess all that processed food, TV watching, Video game playing, cell phone & pager interruptions and shopping really does make us so damn smart.
14—so you want to spend your adult life building a pyramid to God on Earth Ramses the Third and call that wisdom? I know who has had a steady diet of fast food.