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- chikuten, on 09/30/2008, -1/+16"concentrated urine 'must taste extremely unpleasant'"
- Llanowar, on 09/30/2008, -0/+14I don't think the 28 hour day is all that weird.
It would be quite interesting if they performed varieties of that on a larger scale. - AmyVernon, on 09/30/2008, -1/+13A friend dragged me to a sensory deprivation tank place one day for him to relax in advance of his taking the LSAT. I've never been so relaxed in my life. But you get out what you put in: He left the place even more stressed than before and even got the salty water in his eyes.
- WhenCanIStop, on 09/30/2008, -0/+7Dugg for Doctor Fox not being a real Doctor.
Or a real fox. - Llanowar, on 09/30/2008, -0/+6I'm sure there are fetishists out there willing to help.
- inactive, on 09/30/2008, -0/+4If I remember correctly, other studies of the natural sleep pattern have been done, where they are not set a certain cycle at all, but left to let the body fall into it's own natural rhythm, uninfluenced by daylight or clocks or anything else.
I think the average 'natural' cycle ended up at 25-26 hours. - absurdist, on 09/30/2008, -0/+4Just as Captain Kangaroo was, sadly, neither a captain nor a kangaroo...
- kevyn, on 09/30/2008, -1/+5laying down all that time? thats weird. I wonder if they were allowed to have sex in different positions
- disappointed, on 09/30/2008, -0/+3Odd numbered list. Now the New Scientist is actively targeting Digg. One day all headlines will be lists.
- hiPpymIck, on 09/30/2008, -0/+3what about giving massive doses of LSD to elephants
( .. and killing them)
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/Top/ecomments/4 ...
/ not actually a hoax - spectxim, on 09/30/2008, -1/+4"However, the researchers found out one thing: concentrated urine "must taste extremely unpleasant, despite all the sugar that was added". The spiders' behaviour left no room for doubt: "After taking just a sip, the spiders exhibited a marked abhorrence for any further contact with this solution.”"
.... Really?? Took some real educated folks to figure this one out. - datastorageguy, on 09/30/2008, -1/+4If anyone thinks that "rats" was inserted into that commercial for a subliminal message rather than being a part of "bureaucrats" flashing onto the screen, and the timing being that "rats" appears on the screen, needs to go commiserate with Alex Jones and have a latte.
- Cameljock, on 09/30/2008, -0/+2I want to go into one of those sensory deprivation tanks, but the closest I can think of is simply going to my neighborhood swimming pool and just floating in the deep end with a really long snorkel. WHERE DO I GET A REALLY LONG SNORKEL!? Maybe a PVC pipe, imagine that when you go to the local pool one day. Just don't throw anything in it when you see one! :-|
- stk198323, on 09/30/2008, -0/+2That one is none by almost everybody, I think they wanted to make a different list then what we hear over and over and over again. For exemple they forgot the elephant and LSD but also the prison experiment, the Russian ''zombie dog'' and all other experiment that we heard about a zillion times.
All in all it was a good list, for once something different then the same thing we see on digg every 2 weeks. - hiPpymIck, on 09/30/2008, -0/+2i agree
it was a good list of stuff i didnt know
my other two weird elephant links..
video of Edison electrocuting an elephant
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008 ...
pic of elephant public hanging
http://users.bestweb.net/~rg/lynchings/Big%20Mary. ... - barbaragordon, on 09/30/2008, -3/+4Isn't Digg one big science experiment?
- BlackGum, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1Oddest experiments? Pfffft.
- hiPpymIck, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1i think maybe due to the length of the pipe
you would just end up breathing your
own exhalations rather than fresh air
and you might end up
extremely sensually deprived - SiXiam, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1I guess these scientists never watched Terminator...
Dog's don't like robots and won't be fooled even when we can put a living skin over a metal endo-skeleton! - kmlove, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1It's worth a digg just to see AIBO get its head bit off..
- inactive, on 09/30/2008, -1/+2You fail:
Now we know.
1: Robots can't act like real animals
2: Sensory deprivation can cause hallucinations
3: It was faked, not sure if it actually works
4: Colds don't have to do with cold temperatures
5: You can stop aggression with brain electrodes
6: Younger people can adapt to odd sleep schedules
7: Can't quite say
8: Actors can be good enough to fool people into thinking they're real.
9: You can't diagnose schizophrenia from pee. - edd17, on 09/30/2008, -1/+1Actually if you go too deep you wont be able to breathe due to the water pressure pushing against your chest, under a metre or so the air will be forced out of your lungs and they will collapse.
- mickstephenson, on 09/30/2008, -1/+1That's a hypothesis that needs to be proven, any takers?
- knowmad23, on 09/30/2008, -0/+0edd17-this is darwinisim at its best. we souldn't educate, just sit back and watch the gene pool clean its self up. oh yeah, and leave a bunch of PVC by the pool.
- jerryn, on 09/30/2008, -1/+1I build robots as a hobby. I've used tracked and wheeled bases. When the robot is navigating with sonar, it really gets her worked up.
She attacked it a few times, it was pretty funny actually, she went right for the ultrasonic transducer.
PetCo sells dog pheromones for training purposes. I think I'm going to spray that over my robot to see what she does. I think she'll attack it. It's better than the alternative. Submissive pissing.. .yeah...she does that and I'm trying to break her out of it. - knowmad23, on 09/30/2008, -0/+0The 28 hr day experiment is actually not that out there. From having experienced my day shortened to 18hr days while serving on board a submarine crew in the U.S.N. one spends 8hrs on watch, 8hrs awake not on watch, and 8 sleeping hrs. It really was not that uncomfortable, hard to change back to the 24 hr days. And we'd lose track of time/dates. but if we needed to wake up in a hurry and stay awake for a few days or reset the clocks; we'd just crank up the O2 generator a bit, lower CO2 levels considerably and raise the air pressure a half bar or so, for some reason it caused coffee to taste really bad and staying awake for 40-50 hrs. Would be a piece of cake. But afterwards you'd get a bit of a headache.
- Ersh777, on 09/30/2008, -0/+0Dugg for the 28 hour day. I've always told people that my biological clock runs on a 28 hour cycle and not a 24. When I was in high school, my typical weekend followed this pattern: Wake up 7:00am to go to school on Friday. Sleep at 11pm Friday night. Wake up around 11 am Saturday Morning, go to bed 2 am Saturday Night. Wake up at at 1-2pm Sunday afternoon. It was a pain having to reset my schedule every Monday morning. Nowadays I force myself to get up around 9:30am on the weekends, but there are days that I feel like I need a few more hours of sleep.
- knowmad23, on 09/30/2008, -0/+0The 28 hr day experiment is actually not that out there. From having experienced my day shortened to 18hr days while serving on board a submarine crew in the U.S.N. one spends 8hrs on watch, 8hrs awake not on watch, and 8 sleeping hrs. It really was not that uncomfortable, hard to change back to the 24 hr days. And we'd lose track of time/dates. but if we needed to wake up in a hurry and stay awake for a few days or reset the clocks; we'd just crank up the O2 generator a bit, lower CO2 levels considerably and raise the air pressure a half bar or so, for some reason it caused coffee to taste really bad and staying awake for 40-50 hrs. Would be a piece of cake. But afterwards you'd get a bit of a headache.
- theadvinci, on 09/30/2008, -3/+2And I thought the 3rd one was true... I had heard about it in Discovery channel. I guess you can't trust even the Discovery channel anymore.
- Riatsala, on 09/30/2008, -4/+1Some scientists have too much time on their hands!
- Batfishy, on 09/30/2008, -10/+31. So now we know
2. Hallucinations should be private
3. That’s mean!
4. Good
5. Duh
6. Either way is fine
7. We need our cars
8. Acting
9. Listen to spiders
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