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- livejamie, on 10/12/2007, -3/+61did they move the mouse and then he came out of hibernation mode?
- Walt65, on 10/12/2007, -0/+57What's the big deal?
I do that every day at work for eight hours. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+44You must have been at work.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+39He's a pussy conpared to this guy http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=253
He surrendered 29 years after WWII was over. Nobody knew he was still alive... - fender06, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27So potentially Cartman could have survived his wait for the wii, had butters found him
- ieddiew, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Pulse is directly related to your heartbeat, and you can control (well, influence) your heart beat by taking deep breath, calm yourself and mediate. So in some ways, you can have strong influence over your pulse.
- slaystench, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14He takes "following orders" to a whole new level.
- CanceledCzech, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15Why does everything cool happen to the Japanese?
- TheWalkingDude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Crazy; I was just thinking about this today. More precisely I was thinking of the Tom Hanks movie Castaway, when he makes the raft and sets sail on the ocean. At that point his character would have been too weak to alter the raft's course, fend off a shark, or signal a nearby craft. He was essentially waiting to be spotted, so his best option would have been to slow his pulse and meditate, thereby reducing his need for food, water, or negative thought.
- neggbird, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12but he was not hibernating :-/, he was alive and killing.
- sparrowkc, on 10/12/2007, -8/+15Anybody who feels the need to post a comment about James Kim, please be so kind as to also leave your home address, and keep your doors unlocked. Thank you.
- OpCzar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9It's Karma, Something really ***** happens to them: Hiroshima and they get to reconstruct their civlization.
- IanLewis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Actually dylanrush, the Japanese gov't pays for most of the bases in Japan and the U.S. operations here. I'm sure over the last 50+ years they have more than paid for the damages. Who do you think makes the comfortable life (cheap American goods and services) for those on base a possibility? The U.S. sure didn't draft a post-war agreement with the Japanese where the U.S. pays for reconstruction. Sure the U.S. helped in reconstruction but they sure didn't pay for it. The Japanese aren't morons and their reconstruction can mostly be attributed to the Japanese themselves. You need to get your facts straight.
- shirosamurai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Don't mark this as a lame joke, people, they really do. It's insane - the host family I stayed with last summer would have breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day, and those meals were absolutely massive. I could never finish my food, while my pint-sized host family members would eat every last bit... felt rude not eating all of it, but god damn.
- Dotcommer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I agree with Jamesmorad, you're an idiot. FIRST spell atheist right, secondly it was ***** Otters not badgers you retard.
- jamesmorad, on 10/12/2007, -6/+11you're an idiot
- gaberowe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Some researchers in seattle at the fred hutchison cancer research center managed to get a mouse to go into hibernation using Hydrogen Sulfide gas a while back--seems like we are making progress on suspended animation tech that would be useful for long term space travel... woohoo!!
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/221216_hibermice22.html - tr0j, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It reminds me of a doco about injured soldiers in the Falkland war who had a higher survival rate than Vietnam casualties. It was discovered that the Falklands lads were in very cold conditions so their body temps were low and no-one was pmuping in saline to keep blood pressure up. So even those who lost limbs and spent the night in a soggy cold field survivied. In contrast, the Vietnam lads who were kept warm with blankets and had blood, saline etc pumped into them had significantly lower rates of survival. This is why emergancy treatment nowadays can inlude keeping blood pressure low and allowing the body to form its own internal scabs etc or shutdown, basically. How is this relevant? I wonder if our Japanese friend's injury induced his brain to enter an "emergency" mode of sorts, which combined with the low temps, provided the optimal conditions for a hibernation. Just wonderin'.
- tealturtle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4That's wild. Wonder if someday they'll find out how to teach people how to do this, that's a f'n good survival skill.
- GliTCH82, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4It's so obvious where humanity's heading really. This is evolution and the future is none of that crap you saw in X-Men but more like, we're destined to be a species of fat, lazy ***** who mope around all day and hibernate when we're too lazy to get up for food or to take a dump.
- MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -1/+4@ DokumentAMarble
Holy *****. Thanks for the link. That's amazing, almost surreal that that would happen. The guy also wrote a book, I just ordered it off Amazon. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2thats pretty damn interesting
- Darkkish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@OpCzar
You watch the Carson Daily Show too?! - taksmaster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Another guy named Shoichi Yokoi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokoi_Shoichi) was found not too far from where I grew up. There were a bunch of Japanese soldiers who were found many years after WW2 ended.
- ShrimpCrackers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm correcting Taksmaster's above link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoichi_Yokoi
Well, these people didn't know the war was over or didn't believe it.
I mean there were people against the war in Japan during WW2 as well, since Japan's isolationism was also still around then.
Yet Hiroo Onoda and most of his squad still carried out his orders for up to 29 years until he was told by the same superior to step down. Any American World War 2 vet will tell you that Japanese soldiers almost never surrendered and fought till the last man.
As proud as I'd be fighting for America, I somehow don't think I'm THAT loyal. - Pix869, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3This explains how they can eat so much..
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Only 50 degree weather? Sheesh, that's hardly enough to make me shiver, and this guy goes into hibernation?
- IBadassI, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If they figure this out they can do this to astronauts going to far off places like New Zwaland.... Errr... I meant Mars.
- returnofmalv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Kirmz says:
I remember this episode of Giligans island…" - marinist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That guy knows how to chill.
- azurechaos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1yeah i was a bit surprised by that as well, they said that he went to sleep in near-freezing weather, but 50 degrees isn't that bad, doesn't exactly make me think "plunging body temperature"...
- Omnianimosity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If you plan on getting a tattoo...get it on your forehead and make sure it reads exactly what the two have said before me.
- seanhive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0lol, i'm sorry. but i've gotta say it.
only in Japan. - dylanrush, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I think if it was teachable, and a truly valuable survival skill, then we would already know how to do it.
- Liam91, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Where's Mulder and Scully when you need them !??!
- mfratt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Yea, the weather has been in the mid-to-high 40's this past week here in Mass, and we're all wearing T-Shirts.
- dylanrush, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Hehehehe
- dylanrush, on 10/12/2007, -7/+6I would be in awe if someone could consciously slow his own pulse.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1By the way hibernating your computer is a seriously BAD idea. All your ram is saved to your hard drive where anyone could read it. It's a huge security leak. Unless, of course, you use full disc encryption.
What? This isn't a tech story you say? Nooooooooooo. - JamesWilson, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1^^ closed-minded ***** ^^
- Derelict267, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1My god...Manbearpig is real after all.
- UnjustlyBanned, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1You seem fake.
- rtini, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1this seems fake...
- Darkkish, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2To clear things up, Raznog is right, hibernation is much like shutting off your computer, you guys are confusing it with suspend.
- frank3000, on 10/12/2007, -14/+9at least he didn't wake up 500 years later, when the athists were fighting the badgers
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2My initial reaction upon reading this article:
"WOW...that's ***** cool, man!" - MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -7/+2stfu raznog..
he clearly meant tap spacebar.... - Omnianimosity, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0And so does your comment...thats why I dugg it
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3you cant just say "chuck norris" man, it makes you sound like a fag.
- CanceledCzech, on 10/12/2007, -12/+6No, that guy was just an idiot.
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