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- sophiaperennis, on 10/12/2007, -27/+135This is the same technique they use to keep G.W. Bush's head talking.
- bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -4/+102to be safe in the knowledge that your keyboard will be covered in chunks...
- oSiBo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+93Must .... resist....
In soviet russia, hearts beat you ! - Roger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+70Reminds me of the chicken that lived 1.5 years WITHOUT a head.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken - carpespasm, on 10/12/2007, -9/+66lies, there was a scientist who was to be beheaded once, and said that his last experiment was to see if/how long the head would survive once severed from the body, his method of proving his head was still alive was to blink his eyes. supposedly he blinked for about 12 seconds before stopping.
- UncommonSense, on 10/12/2007, -5/+58Somewhere out there a redneck is giddy at the thought of having this mounted on his wall... much better than his neighbor's stupid singing bass.
- ashmodai, on 10/12/2007, -5/+56Yes, victims of the Guillotine were also recorded to remain conscious after their deaths, sometimes for several minutes.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -19/+58Mars Attacks? ACK ACK ACK WE come in peace *fires death ray*
- dacheetah, on 10/12/2007, -15/+49Or some kind of lesser life form, like say, people who voted for bush.
Oh man I'm going to get dugg down for that...
But I still think the average dog is worth more than the average person. Dogs are far more innocent, and the average person, at least from evidence I've seen, is at least as stupid, but far more destructive, cruel, and generally not nice. - MAdaXe42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+34It says citric acid. In russian.
- shrewduser, on 10/12/2007, -7/+40i'll watch it after i eat. to be safe...
- 4850lu73, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32Although I dont agree with animal testing, it's experiments like this that paved the way for modern day life support machines.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+33i was just thinking that... how can you have a story about keeping just the head alive and not mention futurama... what has digg become?
- busch30pack, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_S._Bryukhonenko
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiments_in_the_Revival_of_Organisms - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+31Wow... it's been well over a year since I last saw this on digg. I'm glad that now that digg's insanely popular, more people get to see this amazing video.
I must say, this time around, I think the comments are much more mature and civil (Even the joke ones). Last time, it broke into a religious debate. Could it be that diggers are actually bickering less now?
I think there were some good links brought up in the comments last time, so I'll post a link.
http://digg.com/general_sciences/Soviets_RESURRECTION_Experiments_Video_ - neutrascrub, on 10/12/2007, -7/+34i can't believe no one mentioned Futurama
- Germanicus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+29No, he was sentenced to die, he was a scientist. So what else can he do?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -18/+41Keep in mind the Russians are famous for presenting absolute crap as science. This is the same group that brought us the psychokinesis studies, also presented as fact though they could never seem to produce the subject. Not so much anymore but in the Cold War era they were more willing to push the boundaries.
That's what happens when you have party faithful in positions of authority rather than qualified people...much like the US government today. Which is how we get such ignorant pseudoscience such as intelligent design pushed at our school children, religious doctrine inserted between a patient and their doctor and expensive wars motivated by bad policy rather than good intelligence. - edzieba, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23If your body was irreparibly damaged, and you were otherwise going to die, wouldn't you want a chance to save at least your head, until a donor body or artifical body could be fitted (neural prosthesis have come a long way since then, as long as techniques of neural grafting).
- rompom7, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25I don't think that is true. Do you have any sources?
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=495 - georgelogy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25If you don't want your comments modded down, simply make better comments.
- CaptainOne, on 10/12/2007, -5/+26How the hell is the dogs head moving like that when the "doctor" is pounding the hammer next to it?? There are no neck muscles left to do that. I don't think the few muscles in the head would be able to let it jerk back like that.
Then again, I'm no mad russian scientist, so what do I know.... - ChiaHead, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Reply to jharris:
Pasteur wasn't executed by the guillotine - he died from complications of many strokes he had later in life. He was considered a national hero in France and was initially buried in the Cathedral of Notre Dome before being placed in a crypt in the Institut Pasteur in Paris (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur). - edzieba, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Because the narrator (who appears at the start of the video) dubbed it, along with labelling over or alongside the original russian text in the diagrams (look for text that doesn't move quite in time with the drawings when a frame shudders).
- Rigbymatt, on 10/12/2007, -10/+27not Mars Attacks, Futurama!
- Ikioi, on 10/12/2007, -6/+23I wonder what the "Citric Acid" really is. It's obviously animated over the video, but the last frame isn't covered. It says something like:
lu.uorrae
Nuc.loma (m has a line over it)
Anyone know Russian?
Besides probably being one of the cruelest experiments I've ever seen done to an animal, I don't think the experiment was done exactly like the animation looks like. I would venture to say that they killed the dog, but didn't completely sever the head (maybe partially, who knows). But, when the hammer is smacked the animals head looks like a neck muscle reaction, not a jaw, imo. I'll believe it when I see the back of the head and the inside of the neck in one continuous shot. On second thought, no, I don't really want to see that (nor this again).
The second experiment looks valid, though I don't think that animal returned to normal as they say after being dead 10 minutes. I bet he wasn't exactly a Lassie-like genius. - maninblac1, on 10/12/2007, -6/+22dacheetah
why would you get dugg down for ragging on bush, this is Digg.
Not the republican national convention, i'd figure educated people for the most part on digg understand your sentiment completely. - RudeAtTheMorgue, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16PS: I like the "Ad Sense" ads that are shown with this article.
"Stop that barking dog"
.....cut his head off and keep him alive on this fine Russian-engineered contraption! Only $19.99! And you'll never need to buy another leash or pooper scooper! - DanAtkinson, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15This is false. I'm curious as to where you got such a precise measurement as 300 milliseconds.
There is plenty of proof (most notably from scientists decapitated during the French Revolution, observed by collegues) that the brain can live for several seconds after being removed from the body.
Even with a blood pressure of effectively 'zero', beheaded people can remain conscious for a short time, before eventually becoming subconscious and then dead. - afty8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13@kiantech
You obviously weren't paying very close attention. The severed head was from a completely different dog. Even in this B/W it is obvious to see the difference in color between the two animals, as well as a different overall head shape. Yes they did drain the blood out of a dog later on in the film, but they also revived a severed dog's head.
They are two different dogs.
Watch the video closer. - god4twenty, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14The Russians carried out some very interesting experiments. I remember reading about an experiment in esp using rabbits. A litter of baby rabbits were taken onto a sub while the mother was closely monitored on land. The baby rabbits were killed one at a time and amazingly the mother showed signs of distress at the same moments.
I have also read studies about pre-programming the sub-conscious to carry out an action after death...sort of like the blinking mentioned above. - da_bradler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12this is actually pretty cool stuff, and the movie has a happy ending :). also I'm pretty sure this is the same technic (or at least this is how it was developed) that they use with heart transplanets and lots of other opperations where a machine can pump the blood for you,for although does the premise only apply for when the person dies from blood loss? or what if there lungs weren't working couldn't you use a machine like this to insert O2 into your blood and basicly live without breathing?
- edzieba, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15This is highly plausible. though the stereotype of the soviet union being medically and technologically retarded still persists somewhat, they did make massive strides in some areas, on occasion by sheer manpower thrown at a problem (for example, DNA sequencing of viruses done manually http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=16485&ch=biotech ). Energia's closed-cycle rocket engines outperform anything the west had, and still sit at or close to the top in performance when stacked up against modern engines (due to the design being unstable unless perfected, and companies in the west being unwilling to pour money into a potentially useless engine design). I certainly wouldn't be surprised if experiments like this weren't carried out on humans too (though any files on it would most likely be kept secret).
- jersey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11You can find the original, higher quality, version here:
http://www.archive.org/details/Experime1940
As well, I believe this to be the most accurate info on it:
This disturbing film records the successful experiments in the resuscitation of life to dead animals (dogs), as conducted by Dr. S.S. Bryukhonenko at the Institute of Experimental Physiology and Therapy, Voronezh, U.S.S.R. Director: D.I. Yashin. Camera: E.V. Kashina. Narrator: Professor Walter B. Cannon. Introduced by Professor J.B.S. Haldane. - Shivatron, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14If you can't imagine the positive impact a working technology of this sort might have, candiru, then I can't help you!
- maninblac1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11My only counter point to that would be, we could do it today.
So where did the science and research come from, came from somewhere. - ronaldst, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11PETA will be pissed when they see this.
- brandonhines, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Dugg, but I'm not 100% convinced that its real.
And...I'm terribly sick now. Bleh. - birdwatcher3000, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Would you be surprised if you found out they have done the same with humans?
- ubers0ldat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10"You can tell the progress of a nation, by looking how it treats it's animals."
-Mahatma Gandhi. - eyejayuu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10There was a programme on TV here in the UK about this a few weeks ago.
It showed a dogs head transplanted onto the side of the neck of another dog. And a monkey head being put onto another monkeys body. Yes they had to be careful with the blood supply at all times.
More information on the above:
http://www.mymultiplesclerosis.co.uk/stranger-than-fiction/head-transplant.html - smtelegadis, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Sit rover! Stay, . . .. stay. Good dog!
- carpespasm, on 10/12/2007, -17/+25maybe they could make an online dating site for animals with severed major body parts.
"bodyless boxer seeks poultry with a good neck on his shoulders, head optional." - Irimi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7About a decade ago I saw a show on PBS where they took a monkey and a chimp.. or maybe a gorilla and a chimp and they switched their heads... one of them bit a scientist and was blinking and junk. Freaky.
- gravylookout, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7The Nazis did similar research to this, although, less surgical in nature. They did plenty of experiments with Jews involving the extremes a human body could endure. Extreme temperatures both in and out of water, electrical shocks, and oxygen/pressure deprivation just to name a few. Far worse than anything seen in this video.
- moley, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12How would it make it better by using a rat? Just because you don't like rats? I don't understand.
- bpwwhirl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Why would you even care if you had a high number of Diggs on your comments? It's not like you get a tax break for being "teh mostest popular digger evaR!!1!"
- CptnMorgan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I'd imagine there is no need to do anything special. Your blood would oxygenate itself if it was exposed to the air. That's why you've never seen any blueish blood come out of your body; it is oxygenated at the surface.
I'd be more interested in seeing this experiment carried out with a little more planning. How about connecting the blood to a dialysis machine and adding a glucose drip. - maninblac1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Maybe i'm just desensitized, but i didn't find that video grotesque at all. I mean, they could have made it alot worse.
- bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I can't understand why anyone debunking this is getting modded down...
I want to believe as much as the next guy, but this video is bunk...
There was probably a hell of a lot more money spent on propaganda during the war than on mad zombie research... Play some Wolfenstein 3D if you want your fix of mad war time science... -
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