Fifi the Undead.
Posted on 06/26/2005 8:25:28 PM PDT by Piefloater
SCIENTISTS have created eerie zombie dogs, 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. 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 boffins 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.
Duing 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 per cent 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.
Ok, I get the zombie dog concept, but what's a boffin?
With this and the Bonsai Kitties site I have to wonder if we're living in a George Romero movie.
is that new movie any good?
A scientist, especially one engaged in research.
"Boffins": (Bôf ' ns) noun - the name for scientists and scholars working quietly to develop new and exciting techniques and skills
Fifi the Undead.
Paging Mary Shelly!!
Fifi the Undead.
This raises some intriguing questions on the nature of consciousness, the meaning of life and death, and, if they're able to duplicate this procedure on humans, what constitutes the soul--or whether it even exists.
Bah! Server fart.
Great news from the new-age scientific community; they can kill a dog and after three hours of clinical death can bring it back to life. Soon they will make a 'zombie human' and then make a clone of the zombie. It can be adopted by two lesbians and grow up to be Chairman of the DNC.
Abyssly cool.
She looks like Ter-ray-za on a bad day.
Whatever they are, apparently you've got to join to be one:
Oh, I can imagine the volunteers.
I dunno. I don't think George Romero has learned anything about directing movies in 40 years. I liked the remake of Dawn of the Dead better than the original.
Hmmm..... I'm skeptical that this is even true....
I don't know the Austrailian source or it's credibility, but I'm suspect when the included picture at the site is of a snarling wolf, trying to play up the 'scary zombie' aspect of the story, rather than the obvious medical ramifications of this.
Don't think they can do this in the US. No informed consent.
The fda stopped research on a CPR device a few years ago because there was no informed consent on the research study subjects.
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Dawn of the Dead 2004, was good
Boffins look like such happy, successful, well-dressed people, don't they?
What are you talking about?
Something like this is already being done in surgery.
When they have to do extensive brain surgery , especially the cases that last 18 hours, they use super cooling.
How's it working? Safar, sagood.
"Boffins look like such happy, successful, well-dressed people, don't they?"
Oh yes, they LOOK like that, but really, they are ZOMBIES!
lol!!! That reminds me of that cartoon "The far side" with the killer poodles. This old lady is in her kitchen and her pet poodles are in the next room with one saying to the other "But Fluffy, if we kill her the pampering will end."
Reactions seem pretty polarized. Some have really hated it, but many mainstream reviewers are loving it. If you don't like leftist politics in movies, you might want to avoid it. It has been described as "the first Marxist sci-fi movie since They Live!." Also, John Leguizamo has said it comments on Bush interventionism, or some such rot. And, there are apparently swipes taken at Reagan. Of course, if you can divorce that stuff, you might enjoy it.
Frankly, I think Romero has totally lost it. His output over the last 20 years has been pretty abysmal. I think part of it is he bought into his own hype about social commentary in Dawn of the Dead. He says it was set in a mall to make a statement about consumerism. One of the producers of the film says that is total revisionism, and it was filmed in a mall because that was the only place they were able to shoot for free.
Bottom line for me is, I'm not going to see it.
Do you know anything about near death experiences under those circumstances? Their occurance, or lack thereof, would give some indication of whether NDE's are real, or just artifacts of the brain.
An interesting FYI....hmmmmmmmm....
PET CEMETERY<PET CEMETERY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This has already been done.
The dead voted for Kennedy in Chicago and LBJ in Texas.
Must be some sort of code, that only Boffins can understand.
They walk among us, you know.
And Gregoire in Washington State.
ABC CBS NBC CNN its all the SAME, Propaganda.
Might as well call them all AmeriJazerra.
Show them how much Gravitas Hugh Bris has. Vote with your remote! Shut down the Alphabet channels.
He's Got A Plan
Zippo Hero
Seven Dead Monkeys Page O Tunes
Herbert West, Paging Herbert West...
Think 'Flatliners'.
Don't forget, the stem cells of the zombie clone will be used to cure one of the lesbians of AIDS.
Regardless of any political overtones (and you really have to look for them, minus one or two blatant spots) the movie sucked--the remake of Dawn of the Dead from last year was far, far superior and, more than anything, proves Romero is nothing more than a talentless hack.
The only problem is that irreversible brain damage will occur within five minutes of oxygen deprivation. The procedure won't reverse the brain damage or any other kind of irreversible tissue damage. Unless it can be performed on the spot, it's worthless.
This puts me in mind of other medical "tricks," like sex-change surgery, which is described by many (especially in the media) as changing a woman into a man or a man into a woman, but actually is nothing more than a sleight-of-hand involving plastic surgery and some heavy sophistry.
Ok, I get the zombie dog concept, but what's a boffin?
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"Boffin" is Brit-slang for the pocket-protecter and slide rule set. I remember the WWII phrase "the boffin's war" referring to the electronic war in the Battle of the Atlantic and the air war over Europe.
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