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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+475. In 1931, Henry Ford decided to preserve his friend, Thomas Edison’s last dying breath. He kept it in a bottle. Hope he put a label on that one.
We gotta find that bottle! - sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -8/+52Blah replied to wrong thread, digg me down.
- dgh1973, on 10/12/2007, -6/+41How could they possibly know that for sure??
"Bill can you still hear me? If you can hear me wiggle a finger... ok good!" - FDDIcent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+33Its in the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI.
- dono169, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33I call *****:
"9. If someone plans to jump off Mount Everest to commit suicide, you ’ll need a lot of patience. It takes the average person 2.5 minutes to hit bottom."
A couple things: Everest is not a cliff, the jumper would land a few dozen meters down and slide uncontrollably towards death.
And, everyone would fall at the same speed if it was a cliff as they presume, so an "average" fall time of 2.5 minutes is crap. - JonnyJ, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26mine goes to 11...
- procell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25one scientist, said that upon decapitation (he was going to get executed) that he was going to blink until he was no longer conscious. they timed that
more on this subject:
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_262.html - impulsiveboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2320. Upon your death, you will expel your bowels in a violent, oft hilarious manner.
- Toshibi, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26Actually, that's precisely what they did. A doctor witnessed an execution by guillotine and set up the experiment.
- mrfrosti, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22Um, did anyone notice that the website hosting these facts is a Life Insurance website? Talk about pushing a product...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20i agree, a bunch of them were stupid superstitions with no basis in reality. and i doubt those we the general's exact last words (#7)
- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18I'm sure they just took elevation over sea level and then terminal velocity for a human. You're right, it's crap.
- kingace, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15"May want to rethink what you bury your loved ones in. An old wives’ tale claims that if a woman is buried wearing the color black, she’ll come back to haunt the family."
Pfft. She's gonna come back to haunt the family anyway, mark my word. - berfmurret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13this one was by far the most startling to me. i cant even imagine that 20 seconds on earth with my head seperated from my body. that would be SO ***** scary. and unimaginably interesting at the same time.
- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -9/+21#1 is untrue.
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_221a.html - sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Wish I didn't see those ogrish videos.
- chhuparustam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Pet peeve: people making up statistics. Of course, since it happens 93% of the time, I'm perpetually pissed off.
- AJRiddle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Yeah, my guess is that they just did a simple physics problem with the height of Mt. Everest being the starting point and they acted like it was a cliff all the way down to sea level.
- Anarkast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6You die quite fast of a heart attack. Of fright I sopose.
I read this about people jumping off high rises - they are dead before they hit the ground. - freakydingo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Some more death trivia stuff:
http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Death_Trivia.html - MrPerfect, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Shananigans!
- Witchboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8We know that due to blink communication during the French Revolution.
- sophistirat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6These stats are meaningless. How does this compare to how many righties die from use of left handed products? Or right handed products even?
- Protoss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"15. Might want to read the labels a little more carefully. Nearly 2,500 lefties are killed every year using products meant for righties. Who knew? Now, just back away from those right-handed scissors."
So...they weren't using a left-handed gun or knife then? - adam84a, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I would have really liked some more elaboration on that one.......
- CapeKid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I am pretty sure a while back on TLC they had a myth debunking program (pre-mythbusters) that mentioned this statistic. Lefties die at an earlier average age because of such accidents. The tools in questions are mostly garden tools, chainsaws, etc.
- PoorYorick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Ford: "I got it! His last breath! ...No, wait, here comes another. I got it! His last breath!"
- JayD16, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Aww...
Still, Oscar Wilde could cut diamonds with that wit. ^_^ - Alchemeron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Great. The fake-fact emails of the 90's reproduced in website form.
- Foxphoto, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10not that good
- tdawson2012, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Your right about the cliff part but not the fall time. True, everything accelerates at the same rate when falling, but depending on mass, everything has a different "terminal velocity." So a 200 pound man would fall faster from a great height then would a 100 pound women, it has to do with the gravitational force on the object(or person) and the atmospheric resistance.
Though it could be argued that a 100 pound women would be more streamlined and her coefficient of drag would make up for the decrease in mass.....but really who cares. - dgh1973, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"I think its more of blood circulation and random movements not actual consciousness."
I might tend to agree, but then again in theory your brain could still control parts of the head until that 15 seconds or so elapsed and "died" due to lack of oxygen/blood flow. From what I gather that's really the primary thing it needs to keep going at least in the short term.
"It's simply not true. Lack of oxygen/blood to the brain is instant unconsciousness."
I thought you had a few seconds after a carotid artery wound? I could imagine jugular being longer (the exit path, or am I getting it backwards?) - DDRSkata, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Shenanigans! A lot of these are incorrect, like the one about Oscar Wilde. He said that quote a month before his death, and he died of meningitis, not fighting his wallpaper.
- rationalist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"Pet peeve: people making up statistics. Of course, since it happens 93% of the time, I'm perpetually pissed off."
What happens the other 25% of the time?
Reminds me of the old saw: There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who can't. - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+520. You are going to die. Permanently. So stop acting like a jerk already.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7About 70% of it is true, the rest is just speculation, Labeled inaccurate.
I would love to see the sources of all that information.. oh wait a second, there ARE NO sources - barakatx2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4i dont think it really matters if you are still conscious or not after you get your head cut off. isnt your brain supposed to release tons of DMT or whatever that chemical is called that gives you dreams, so you just see a really ***** up weird dream type thing before you die (ie: your life flashing before your eyes)
- Mugsleymug, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5eerie
- devindotcom, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9I don't trust that straightdope thing. If the shock of the blow didn't render you unconscious (a possibility), you would remain conscious and probably seeing, hearing etc for quite a while, any amount of time from 10 seconds to 6 minutes, depending on the time it takes for your brain to fail.
- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5"I thought you had a few seconds after a carotid artery wound? I could imagine jugular being longer (the exit path, or am I getting it backwards?)"
I've seen someone shot straight through the carotid at point blank range. They were immediately rendered unconscious and dead seconds after. - voyetra8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3These facts are essentially all *****, but I don't have the energy to Snopes them all.
Not to mention it's spam. No digg for you. - dgh1973, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7"Actually, that's precisely what they did. A doctor witnessed an execution by guillotine and set up the experiment."
Yeah but how do they know it wasn't some type of involuntary muscle response? Must have been a detailed/precise experiment... but how did he hear the commands??
"one scientist, said that upon decapitation (he was going to get executed) that he was going to blink until he was no longer conscious. they timed that"
There's still some room for doubt there maybe, oh well. - DrGonzo1184, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Mine has a knob, well, had, but now it is a metal stub I turn with pliers. No numbers on the stub...
- inkswamp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3How do you propose we deal with the non-Muslim terrorists out there (and yes, there are plenty)?
- PeakAction, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"12. Think your décor is bad? Oscar Wilde’s last words were, "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go" He fought the wallpaper and the wallpaper won."
Wilde actually said that about a month before he died... They weren't his last words. - DJosephDesign, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Weren't Einstein's last words uttered in his native language and thus not understood by the nurse in the room?
- jedikv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3thats the general digg philosophy
- Rorrim, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Why did you spend so much time rating that crap?
- megatron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This just makes me angry.
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