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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: GmanJoe on June 27, 2005, 11:36:54 AM
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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15739502-13762,00.html
what the hell is a boffin? Crazy spotted dick eating Brits! :mad:
SCIENTISTS have created eerie zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans.
US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of clinical death, paving the way for trials on humans within years.
Pittsburgh\'s Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research has developed a technique in which subject\'s veins are drained of blood and filled with an ice-cold salt solution.
The animals are considered scientifically dead, as they stop breathing and have no heartbeat or brain activity.
But three hours later, their blood is replaced and the zombie dogs are brought back to life with an electric shock.
Plans to test the technique on humans should be realised within a year, according to the Safar Centre.
However rather than sending people to sleep for years, then bringing them back to life to benefit from medical advances, the boffins would be happy to keep people in this state for just a few hours,
But even a this should be enough to save lives such as battlefield casualties and victims of stabbings or gunshot wounds, who have suffered huge blood loss.
Duing the procedure blood is replaced with saline solution at a few degrees above zero. The dogs\' body temperature drops to only 7C, compared with the usual 37C, inducing a state of hypothermia before death.
Although the animals are clinically dead, their tissues and organs are perfectly preserved.
Damaged blood vessels and tissues can then be repaired via surgery. The dogs are brought back to life by returning the blood to their bodies,giving them 100 per cent oxygen and applying electric shocks to restart their hearts.
Tests show they are perfectly normal, with no brain damage.
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LIC says it\'s the dumbest zombie creation EV4R! :p
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That\'s kind of cool...yet very creepy.
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that is supremely badass
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woudl this work for humans? when u die doesnt ur brain start deteriorating and stuff..so when they brought u back to life ud be a vegetable?
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Originally posted by Viper_Fujax
woudl this work for humans? when u die doesnt ur brain start deteriorating and stuff..so when they brought u back to life ud be a vegetable?
Tests show they are perfectly normal, with no brain damage.
I don\'t know how they\'d measure doggy brain damage. It\'d be a lot more apparent in a human being if anything went wrong.
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lame.
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Originally posted by unknown
lame.
By definition, Zombies are not lame. It\'s unpossible. Especially Doberman Pincher Zombies that crash through windows....like way back in 1996. I remember screaming like a little girl.
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Is that real? Thats crazy and sick, but interesting and kinda neat at the same time.
Damn Scientists
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what does this say about the after life?....without turning this into a religious thread...just let my a$$ die...don\'t re=animate me or bring me back to life...sometimes i think these scientists go too far in their research....on another note, is this article for real?...sounds kinda fake and that dog in the pic looks fake.....
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how dare you question news.com.au! of course it\'s real!
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Worst written story EV4R! :D
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This could accually lead to an answer about an afterlife once and for all. They just bring some guy back too life and ask him what happened.
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so anyways I was shaving my balls, right. and discovered I do have a birth mark after all.
f\'n A
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right before the anus? wow.. You must be flexy :)
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It\'s fuckin\' stupid if ya ask me sorry to be so blunt but....yeah.
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They should try the experiment on cats....they have 9 lives.