news.com.au— SCIENTISTS have created eerie zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans!
Jun 27, 2005View in Crawl 4
Umm, yeah, that story's real. Just check the latest Scientific American. A site may collect and publish fake tabloid stories, but it doesn't mean they won't carry the outrageous real ones when they find them.The dogs are preserved first by the sub-freezing temps of the saline solution, and then their bodies are induced to enter a hibernation-like state due to the lack of oxygen (anoxia) in the saline. The point of their research is to induce hibernation in animals that don't naturally undergo it, and the key is to deprive the cells of oxygen below a certain level; if the cells have more oxygen than that, but still not all that they require, they die off. When there's no oxygen, the cells seem to be able to suspend their functioning until conditions improve (e.g. oxygen is reintroduced via reinfusion of their blood).
Our blood is not very different from water. I don't know how the salinity of the water affects life-state, but I know that blood is about 85% water. I, too , was calling bogus on this article, with the basis of the picture and the headline, but I doubt they had art, and they've probably got a sense of humor.
@thomas: Interesting video, indeed. A complete exsanguination for 20 minutes, a crude transfusion, and the animal seems to be back to normal. It'd interesting to have that experiment repeated, but this time with an MRI scan before and after the operation. I'm almost sure some neurological damage must have occured during that 20 minutes. On a semi-related tangent, do any of you diggers recall a Sliders episode where these Egyptian doctors drained Malory of all his blood and brought him back in order to ask him what the afterlife was like? I thought that was a really cool episode =)
i dont really know what to say...i think I wouldnt want to participate in this until there was sufficient testing done on humans after maybe 10 years...it is very creepy...what if there is the chance that you are revived but you cant feel anything...or you lose control of your muscles...what if you cant have children after being revived? questions to ask during and after long term testing...i would need the most strategic and rigorus testing done that encompasses every single detail...
This is most definitely a REAL story... it is a defense department (Navy) sponsored project... do some research... google the Clinic's name... the rabbit hole just gets deeper!
In the UK and most of Europe (Australia being included in my UK generalisation) there is no deliniation between regular newspapers and tabloids. For this reason, one will see both ludicrous 900 pound baby stories along with perfectly normal accounts of community activities and other actual news.
geeteeJun 28, 2005
This is not a dupe. Dug.
aekdbbopJun 28, 2005
yay!!!! Zombies are my prefered means of apocalypse... can't wait!
prophasiJun 28, 2005
Umm, yeah, that story's real. Just check the latest Scientific American. A site may collect and publish fake tabloid stories, but it doesn't mean they won't carry the outrageous real ones when they find them.The dogs are preserved first by the sub-freezing temps of the saline solution, and then their bodies are induced to enter a hibernation-like state due to the lack of oxygen (anoxia) in the saline. The point of their research is to induce hibernation in animals that don't naturally undergo it, and the key is to deprive the cells of oxygen below a certain level; if the cells have more oxygen than that, but still not all that they require, they die off. When there's no oxygen, the cells seem to be able to suspend their functioning until conditions improve (e.g. oxygen is reintroduced via reinfusion of their blood).
dclowd9901Jun 28, 2005
Our blood is not very different from water. I don't know how the salinity of the water affects life-state, but I know that blood is about 85% water. I, too , was calling bogus on this article, with the basis of the picture and the headline, but I doubt they had art, and they've probably got a sense of humor.
pacobellJul 1, 2005
@thomas: Interesting video, indeed. A complete exsanguination for 20 minutes, a crude transfusion, and the animal seems to be back to normal. It'd interesting to have that experiment repeated, but this time with an MRI scan before and after the operation. I'm almost sure some neurological damage must have occured during that 20 minutes. On a semi-related tangent, do any of you diggers recall a Sliders episode where these Egyptian doctors drained Malory of all his blood and brought him back in order to ask him what the afterlife was like? I thought that was a really cool episode =)
lastdayzeJul 28, 2005
i dont really know what to say...i think I wouldnt want to participate in this until there was sufficient testing done on humans after maybe 10 years...it is very creepy...what if there is the chance that you are revived but you cant feel anything...or you lose control of your muscles...what if you cant have children after being revived? questions to ask during and after long term testing...i would need the most strategic and rigorus testing done that encompasses every single detail...
numberxviiAug 2, 2005
wow!!! that be cool but i think being dead you'll lose something i dont know something inside of you
jsj2kAug 2, 2005
This is most definitely a REAL story... it is a defense department (Navy) sponsored project... do some research... google the Clinic's name... the rabbit hole just gets deeper!
sparepartsAug 4, 2005
In the UK and most of Europe (Australia being included in my UK generalisation) there is no deliniation between regular newspapers and tabloids. For this reason, one will see both ludicrous 900 pound baby stories along with perfectly normal accounts of community activities and other actual news.
wookiekillerNov 28, 2005
That is one the the creepiest thing I've heard in a while
andrew4dDec 9, 2005
This is the best
urelJul 16, 2006
I tried Snopes, it has the story but not any conclusion about the validity. I'm hoping it's a hoax.
azewaldoNov 18, 2006
Original link is dead. Here's a link with the story, as well as other coverage of the study: <a class="user" href="http://www.mindfully.org/Health/2005/Dead-Dogs-Safar29jun05.htm">http://www.mindfully.org/Health/2005/Dead-Dogs-Safar29jun05.htm</a>
sabinkenobiJul 6, 2008
I dugg the eerie zombie dogs because Alex Albrecht thought it was so cool.