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- Azewaldo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Original link is dead. Here's a link with the story, as well as other coverage of the study: http://www.mindfully.org/Health/2005/Dead-Dogs-Safar29jun05.htm
- thomas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The USSR did something like this on dogs back in 1940. They even have footage from the experiments at Archive.org.
http://www.archive.org/details/Experime1940
Some of the video is somewhat disturbing so do not watch it if you are easily grossed out. - urel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I tried Snopes, it has the story but not any conclusion about the validity. I'm hoping it's a hoax.
- abstractia, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Bring out yer dead!
Bring out yer dead!
BUT I'M NOT DEAD! - dreamkatcha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I don't understand how they work around the whole brain damage issue. Less than a minute after death your brain can be scrambled. We've all witnessed this with car crash victims etc who are resuscitated - they don't call them vegetables for nothing!
- aekdbbop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0yay!!!! Zombies are my prefered means of apocalypse... can't wait!
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Our 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.
- albel65, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0dreamkatcha, if you read the article, then you might have noticed that that solution put into the dog kept them preserved, or something like that, think suspended animation.
- cthulhu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0All those headlines are real.
- surf314, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That's mad creepy!
- crazyfish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thats beyond a fake story. Look at the other "headlines"
12-year-old girl gets divorce
Goats recruited to fight bushfires
Scientists create robot lobster
The most dangerous day of the week
Trainee's overtime paid in bourbon
Cookie trail leads to suspects
Soldiers steal tank to buy vodka
Bonking, brawls and booze
Man gets $2600 for plaster Jesus
New shop to turn away the rich - Prophasi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Umm, 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). - P1MP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Actually if you do a google search on the other headlines they appear on many other sites and seem to be real
- xample, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i agree, fake news site
- Designhaus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Completely bogus. There are no real sources presented in the article, it's written in horribly fragmented english and there's no way they would test this on humans within a year. The only actual mentioned source is a pay-to-grade Pakistani medical training center.
- albel65, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0the*
- andrew4d, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is the best
- wookiekiller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That is one the the creepiest thing I've heard in a while
- HighTechGeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Prophasi, do you have a link? I briefly searched SA's web site and came up empty...
- bunzai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You can bet PETA and/or animal activists will have something to say about this...
- TokenUser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The news site is real - the section this story is linked to is the "Other Side" section for off beat stories. News Limited is the parent company for a number of publications that range from ultra conservative (The Austrlian), to more tabloid (Daily Telegraph).
- SabinKenobi, on 07/06/2008, -0/+0I dugg the eerie zombie dogs because Alex Albrecht thought it was so cool.
- PacoBell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@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 =)
- cyberscape2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is actually genuine, as bizarre as it sounds. I immediately thought of the Russian experiments which did the same thing.
However, the idea that it'll be used on humans anytime soon is utter crap. It's not the same process. They can't simply transplant the steps and assume they'll get valid results. - chachi_fu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I didn't believe it either, but there seems to be a few articles about it. One for instance, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15625460&query_hl=13
- JSJ2K, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This 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!
- SpareParts, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0In 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.
- lastdayze, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i 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... - NumberXVII, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0wow!!! that be cool but i think being dead you'll lose something i dont know something inside of you
- geetee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0This is not a dupe. Dug.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0What about some real comments?
Personally I wonder if the article is *****.
The website it is on seems almost like a tabloid. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2I'm tired of reading dup, dupe, and duplicate.
It's like dumb, dumber, and ***** dumbass.
Who the ***** cares if something has been posted before. Not everyone is a ***** loser who reads every ***** thing posted on digg. They may not have seen some of the other ***** posts. *****.
Just don't ***** digg it. - J!mbo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0Old story, been posted on digg before, stop filling digg with this *****.
- Jammerdelray, on 10/12/2007, -9/+0this dupe digg.....bs
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