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2032243 No.2032243 [Reply] [Original]

can humans hibernate? I know we dont, I just want to know if we can.

>> No.2032245

I think you mean hypothermia?

>> No.2032251

>>2032243
I don't think so. I don't think we can slow down our metabolism enough. Besides, would YOU want your anus plugged with a shit-cork?

>Captcha: anist structure
Yeah captcha, one of those.

>> No.2032252

>>2032245

no, i mean hibernate, like bears.

>> No.2032258
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>>2032251

....uh no....i think ill pass

>> No.2032265

yes we can
source: demolition man

>> No.2032294

>>2032243

Please..

PLEASE..

Have the decency to post a related pic. I'm not contributing anything in such conditions. For fuck's sake, what's wrong with you?

>> No.2032302

>>2032294
the hell would relate to that text anyway?
... a bear?

...yeh, i'd post that cocaine bear, with "I FUCKING LOVE COCAINE"

>> No.2032460

There's a puffer fish that makes a poison that can cause a "death-like" state in humans. That is to say that any doctor who comes up to said "corpse" will more than likely feel no heartbeat due to dramatically reduced heartrate and blood pressure. It is also a paralytic which will leave the body as lifeless as...well, a dead guy. Due to the paralysis, the bodies oxygen consumption is also dramatically reduced, allowing the person to live for 24 hours without taking a single breath. However, since the poison does not cross the Blood-Brain barrier, all of the neurological processes of the brain are unaffected. There have been people who have said that they've been completely conscious and aware of everything that was happening around them and to them while under the affects of this poison.

Not that it is true hibernation, but that is probably the next best thing. You can probably find all this on google or wikipedia or some shit, but I'm too damned lazy to look it up for you.

>> No.2032466

No we can't.

>> No.2032474

Yeah, There is actually a company doing research on suspended animation of humans (or essentially, hibernation) and it works. It's in human testing right now with great success. Here is a link to a presentation.
http://www.ted.com/talks/mark_roth_suspended_animation.html

>> No.2032495

>>2032474
That's awesome. Thanks for link.

>> No.2032496

You can enter a state of hibernation by breathing Helium. It can be used in a similar manner to Oxygen in human respiration, but far less efficiently. This is why breathing Helium won't make you choke or feel like you're running out of breath.

You go into a coma-like state that you can be awoken from at any time by removing the Helium source.

Go try it out.

>> No.2032506

>>2032460
>24-hours without breath
>completely conscious

No. It takes oxygen to be completely conscious. Maybe they were partly conscious, in a very limited manner.

>> No.2032522

>>2032474
>for all intensive purposes
I wish I could dismiss his ideas based on this error.

But the thin about 10 parts per millions would make a good sci-fi plot. Like that episode in TNG where they find cryonically frozen 20th century figures. It could be about an astronaut orbiting the Sun in accidental suspended animation. Except he would be a real person and not an archetypal caricature, unlike that TNG episode.

>> No.2032525

>>2032496
No one do this

>> No.2032527

>>2032525
You spoiled the chance for the loss of human life. What kind of demon are you?

>> No.2032589

>>2032496

I can confirm this works as I have tried it myself but you must be VERY careful.

You can only survive for about 1 week without water so if you do this and nobody is around to wake you out of it YOU WILL DIE FROM DEHYDRATION!

Don't be stupid! Tell somebody to wake you up before trying a helium hibernation! And have fun!

>> No.2032640

>>2032522
>for all intensive purposes
>intensive purposes
>intensive

I do believe he said "for all INTENTS and purposes."

>> No.2032917

>>2032589

>google "helium hibernation", receive only 6 matches, of which only >>2032589's post actually refers to it.

Í don't think so pal.

>> No.2032955

>>2032252
Bears don't hibernate, you retard.
L2torpor

>> No.2032958

>>2032917
I'm not your pal, mate.