> The team recruited 27 healthy adult men in Japan, each of whom received a dose of non-oxygenated perfluorodecalin via the anus. They were asked to retain the liquid for a full hour as the dosage slowly increased from 25 to 1,500 mL. Twenty of the men successfully completed the experiment.
7 of them went home and never spoke of it again.
weird-eye-issue 29 days ago [-]
That's a lot of liquid to retain, it would feel very weird
stronglikedan 29 days ago [-]
But it would feel amazing upon release
OptionOfT 29 days ago [-]
I've you've ever had to drink 1 gallon of that salty stuff before a colonoscopy, this sounds similar.
esjeon 29 days ago [-]
That sounds like an amazing sh*t.
highfrequencyy 29 days ago [-]
How did they advertise this experiment?
flowerthoughts 29 days ago [-]
Please, quiet down. Thank you all, for accepting my personal invitation and coming tonight.
As you can see, there is only a carrot in front of you, but that is not to say that this dinner will be uneventfull or unfulfilling. On the contrary, I believe. In fact, I hope you will accept my humble request that we let our mouths be free for candid conversation, and the colon for breathing. It will be an evening like none you have ever seen, I assure you, my dear medical students.
qgin 29 days ago [-]
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brk 29 days ago [-]
They were simultaneously filming for a TV game show.
0cf8612b2e1e 29 days ago [-]
Only half knew it was a game show. The others did not want to rock the boat.
weird-eye-issue 29 days ago [-]
Because the researchers are Japanese? Sorry but what kind of question is this?
qgin 29 days ago [-]
The article describes the researchers and research as being based at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. That’s the reason for the question.
weird-eye-issue 29 days ago [-]
Good then you read this part too?
"...co-author Takanori Takebe of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and the University of Osaka"
qgin 29 days ago [-]
That's the story then. Apologies for missing that.
fishmicrowaver 29 days ago [-]
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Aspos 29 days ago [-]
So "blowing smoke up one's arse" isn't a completely baseless resuscitation technique after all.
NoPicklez 29 days ago [-]
Haha I said the same
Electricniko 29 days ago [-]
Excuse me, I just gotta go unblock my airway.
philsnow 29 days ago [-]
> it did provide a handy plot point for the 1989 film The Abyss, in which a rat is able to “breathe” in a similar liquid
Yes.. a rat..
(The statute of spoiler limitations is definitely over, so rather than being coy I'll say that a person undergoes the same procedure, under duress, in an particularly dramatic scene. It's a great movie but I fear its effects won't feel like they've held up well for anybody watching it for the first time.)
diogenescynic 29 days ago [-]
"Are you a nose or mouth breather?"
"...I'm a butt breather."
Fix sleep apnea with this one weird trick!
Why are new CPAP machines so uncomfortable?
eth0up 29 days ago [-]
I think we can now finally spell it as we've always been tempted to.
Continuous R.. A.. P
AtlasBarfed 29 days ago [-]
Here comes the next anally focused franchise opportunity for Southern California
grim_io 29 days ago [-]
To think I've been doing breathing wrong all these years...
outoftheb0x 29 days ago [-]
that means we can now smoke two cigarettes at once?
sentrysapper 29 days ago [-]
>Yes, they gave the animals enemas.
I am relieved for them.
craigmcnamara 29 days ago [-]
This is like the intro to the Squdbillies episode where Dan Halen makes the octowing chicken, but instead of that is ass lungs.
Welcome to the future, we have ass lungs now.
NoPicklez 29 days ago [-]
So blowing smoke up someone's xxxx is actually beneficial
flakes 29 days ago [-]
Another great post from Arse Technica
next_xibalba 29 days ago [-]
"We were promised flying cars, instead we got butt breathing."
fragmede 29 days ago [-]
I dunno, if this means we can swim underwater and live in undersea cities, I'd consider it an okay tradeoff!
ralusek 29 days ago [-]
I think that Thiel would actually like this. Both because it's progress in the "world of atoms," as he says, but also because it's "blood boy" adjacent.
s5300 29 days ago [-]
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fainpul 29 days ago [-]
> ...they gave the animals enemas. They then induced respiratory failure...
Wow, so cool! And the results are such valuable science!
/s
nakamoto_damacy 29 days ago [-]
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7 of them went home and never spoke of it again.
As you can see, there is only a carrot in front of you, but that is not to say that this dinner will be uneventfull or unfulfilling. On the contrary, I believe. In fact, I hope you will accept my humble request that we let our mouths be free for candid conversation, and the colon for breathing. It will be an evening like none you have ever seen, I assure you, my dear medical students.
"...co-author Takanori Takebe of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and the University of Osaka"
Yes.. a rat..
(The statute of spoiler limitations is definitely over, so rather than being coy I'll say that a person undergoes the same procedure, under duress, in an particularly dramatic scene. It's a great movie but I fear its effects won't feel like they've held up well for anybody watching it for the first time.)
"...I'm a butt breather."
Fix sleep apnea with this one weird trick!
Why are new CPAP machines so uncomfortable?
I am relieved for them.
Welcome to the future, we have ass lungs now.
Wow, so cool! And the results are such valuable science!
/s