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- Schrade, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23Direct link to the video:
mms://wmscnn.stream.aol.com.edgestreams.net/cnn/health/2006/06/06/rush.uk.beating.heart.affl.ws.wmv - Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19"The heart doesn't work without the brain."
Incorrect; in fact, individual heart cells will even beat by themselves. - d3m3, on 10/12/2007, -8/+24If a heart beats in a box but nobody's around doesn't it make a noise?
- portilaj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Yeah, I think it's the only way to link into the CNN videos. They use a javascript launch off the main CNN page so I used the 'email this to a friend' thing to get them to send me a hard-link, and that's what the link above is. Sorry 'bout the confusion. It should work though.... Just like the BEATING BLOODY HEART!
- DarkEnder, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14The heart can live a while without the brain. Most brain-dead people still have working hearts, but malfunctioning brains.
- d3m3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Isn't that a movie? I think it ends with them all escaping.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13That's great!
I've always thought that we should allow cloning of humans (without brains), with bodies kept alive like this and stored at a facility until you need them. They should take a DNA sample from you when you're born, and from that day on, start growing your organs. When you get in an accident, or have a heart attack, or liver cancer or anything, all they need to do is go to your body farm and take whatever part you need from the body they've been growing for you since birth.
I know this article doesn't really say anything about that, but it IS finally a demonstration of being able to keep organs alive indefinitely (or at least as close to that as possible). - kevinwiatrowski, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Does anyone know if maintaining blood flow and temperature is enough to keep the heart beating, or does the machine need to provide an external electrical signal like a pacemaker?
- toreyarnold, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12I would have to assume that some sort of pacemaker device is necessary. The heart doesn't work without the brain.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I used to work with researchers who tested drugs that affected heart rate. First off, the heart NEEDS the brain stem to control the rhythm and pace of the beating. In brain dead people, it is only higher level functioning which is not working........basic functioning in your brain stem still works, hence the heart is still beating in brain dead patients.
The heart still beats when taken out of the body, but not for long!... - Unicyclelarry, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7And then we could utilize the bodies as an infinitely renewable source of energy! It sure beats solar energy... especially when the sky has been turned into a giant, turbulent mass of clouds.
- SilverGinger5, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8@itistoday
Isn't the point of that question that it is just a wave of air molecules until it reaches an ear and then it is translated into sound? So although it is creating something that would be translated into a sound if someone was around, without the person being around it's just the molecules rather than a sound?
Or have I got it completely wrong? - tysat, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Crazy to the max
- zentro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Creepy!
The video at Google Video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4187970374764805675&q=Revival+of+Organisms - orphean, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6@SilverGinger5
Basically yes. That would be the classical retort. The question lies in B-grade philosophy and is more of an argument of semantics than a serious query.
I'm convinced it was initially asked to try to impress some girls in some intellectual-esque coffee shop ;-) - TheCount, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6"Incorrect; in fact, individual heart cells will even beat by themselves."
Now THAT's creepy, makes my skin crawl just thinking about it. - albel65, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"Oh the heart beats in its cage."
- apo11o, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Psh. Got nothin on this human beatbox: http://www.break.com/index/thebeatbox.html
- degree, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I think someone just saw "The Island"..
- howie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That's what the machine does: It gives the heart nutrition and oxygen.
- BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The Tell-Tale Heart.
- Ilyanep, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Creepiest thing you're likely to see this week."
Dude, I just saw the omen like an hour ago. Otherwise +digg :P - stou, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yes individual heart cells do beat alone... but you still need a pacemaker or whatever to synchronize both hemispheres of the heart so they beat in some unison... or sequence. Maybe its some really low brain function (brain-stem?)
- danquah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That's nothing :)
Check out this video of a number of experiments the Russians had going on in 1940
http://www.archive.org/details/Experime1940 (links to the left)
Wikipage that describes the video:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiments_in_the_Revival_of_Organisms - neko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yes! If Futurama teaches us anything, it is that keeping human heads alive in jars is a technology we really have to invent!
- Aurarch, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I can't see this video, I installed WMP 10 and it needs WMP 9 =(
- everfalling, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2awsome! even better is the news it can possibly be done with other organs.
it'd be awsome if they got it working well enough to have the need for something like an automated organ bank. heh - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2haha, yeah that'd be the island, but they had brains...oh and i see we're throwing in some matrix allusions too
how reckless would people be with their bodies knowing they have a spare on ice when they need it? - MatthewWilkes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's an impulse into the SA node, isn't it?
- cryonix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1didnt work for me in FF or IE. with WMP10. java enabled... bla bla bla. still nothing. it must not like me.
- randomvictim, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I have wmp11 and bon echo alpha 2 and I was able to view it fine.
- DiamondIce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Worked fine for me using WMP10 and Firefox. Make sure you have java enabled and you allow popups from cnn.
- cg0def, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is probably the cooles invention of the year.
So I guess that there is like a wire connected to the heart that sends electric impulses or something of that sort. I can't believe noone though of this before ... - yahoofrom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1so creepy.
- jet3004, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No more weird than when I bought a human heart in Chinatown.
- astrotrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Another way to do this:
Meaning of Life - Part V: Live Organ Transplants
http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/mol/m-10-v.htm - richbradshaw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Deus Ex is my favourite game ever!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why, or why did I click on this story...
- HeatVision, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Awesome.
I imagine by 2051 they'll have a full body in a box...and you will all bow down before your new ruler.
(/evil laughter) - fatsobob, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Does that make it a human beat box?
- docsnavely, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is absolutely beautiful! What a great innovation!
- zcreem, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4No sound until heard, for sound you need ears.
- jimbo92107, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Very intriguing possibilities. Imagine removing a sick patient's kidneys (or other organs) and running blood and nutrients through the sick organs. While the patient was kept alive by artificial means, the sick organs might be treated and recuperate by being exposed to a medicinal environment.
In fact, a sedated patient could have their blood replaced by chilled, oxygenated saline (see Zombie Dogs), whereupon all their organs could be removed, cleaned, pampered, etc. Afterwards the organs could be re-installed (in proper order, of course), then zip 'em up, wake 'em up and presto--Zombie Army!! - mushoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"The island" "The house of Scorpion" all rip offs. John Darnton's "The Experiment" and Wes Craven's "Fountain Society" come to mind, I think both were printed in 1999. But I'm pretty sure that those are rip offs as well, I'd like to see the first stab at this notion of human farming.
- BigHungryJoe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Yeah it does, you just need to download an install Flip4Mac. http://www.flip4mac.com/wmv_download.htm
Lets you view WMV files in Quicktime (Mac version ***** better then Windows version).
Edit: Dang, jalenack beat me to it. - lbjazz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The whole generating energy from body farms doesn't work because it takes more energy (food etc.) to keep the bodies alive than is produced. There is ALWAYS a net loos of energy, otherwise we'd have perpetual motion machines running everything.
- SirSid, on 05/27/2009, -0/+1Did you try this link beacause this one worked for me
http://www.cnn.com/video/partners/clickability/index.html?url=/video/health/2006/06/06/rush.uk.beating.heart.affl - itistoday, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Fascinating! Thanks to you too zentro for that link!
- xombiefarts, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Im having Quake 4 flash backs!
pretty creepy but good to know they can do this now -
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