Zombie Dogs . . .
Question: Do they like dry food or wet?
By C. William Boyer
This just in from the Weird Wire:
AP June 27, 2005
, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans. US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of clinical death, paving the way for trials on humans within years.SCIENTISTS have created eerie zombie dogs
Pittsburgh's Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research has developed a technique in which subject's veins are drained of blood and filled with an ice-cold salt solution. The animals are considered scientifically dead, as they stop breathing and have no heartbeat or brain activity. But three hours later, their blood is replaced and the zombie dogs are brought back to life with an electric shock.
Plans to test the technique on humans should be realised within a year, according to the Safar Centre. However rather than sending people to sleep for years, then bringing them back to life to benefit from medical advances, the scientists would be happy to keep people in this state for just a few hours, But even a this should be enough to save lives such as battlefield casualties and victims of stabbings or gunshot wounds, who have suffered huge blood loss.
During the procedure blood is replaced with saline solution at a few degrees above zero. The dogs' body temperature drops to only 7C, compared with the usual 37C, inducing a state of hypothermia before death. Although the animals are clinically dead, their tissues and organs are perfectly preserved. Damaged blood vessels and tissues can then be repaired via surgery. The dogs are brought back to life by returning the blood to their bodies,giving them 100 percent oxygen and applying electric shocks to restart their hearts. Tests show they are perfectly normal, with no brain damage.
"The results are stunning. I think in 10 years we will be able to prevent death in a certain segment of those using this technology," said one US battlefield doctor.
Yeah, but what about Disney's head? Or Bush's brain for that matter? Can they be revived?
Hell no. Even Jesus couldn't bring Bush's Brain back from the dead.
posted by C. William Boyer at 5:10 PM
2 Comments:
What I find most interesting about those people who are currently cryogenically frozen, is that the companies responsible for freezing them freely admit that the current technique is irreversible destructive to body tissue.
Wow, that's really disturbing. It's neat that they've come up with a way to freeze living organisms, but disgusting that they're running these tests on living animals. How many dogs did they kill by sucking out all their blood and inducing hypothermia before death? Is it worth it so that we could potentially freeze people? Obviously not.
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