"suspended Animation"

Seph_KimaraSeph_Kimara Join Date: 2003-08-10 Member: 19359Members
edited April 2005 in Off-Topic
<div class="IPBDescription">aka "metabolic hibernation"</div> <a href='http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4469793.stm' target='_blank'>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4469793.stm</a>

<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Mice have been placed in a state of near suspended animation, raising the possibility that hibernation could one day be induced in humans.

If so, it might be possible to put astronauts into hibernation-like states for long-haul space flights - as often depicted in science fiction films.

A US team from Seattle reports its findings in Science magazine.

In this case, suspended animation means the reversible cessation of all visible life processes in an organism.

The researchers from the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle put the mice in a chamber filled with air laced with 80 parts per million (ppm) of hydrogen sulphide (H2S) - the malodorous gas that gives rotten eggs their stink.

Hydrogen sulphide can be deadly in high concentrations. But it is also produced normally in humans and animals, and is believed to help regulate body temperature and metabolic activity. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

It's a pretty interesting thing to think about, especially considering the various uses that it could potentially serve.
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  • TrevelyanTrevelyan Join Date: 2003-03-23 Member: 14834Members
    Excellent... I'll go sign up to be suspended till an alien race takes over the planet. I'm sure they'll run things much better then us around here.

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  • AlienCowAlienCow Join Date: 2003-09-20 Member: 21040Members
    Mmmm saw this posted on HLFallout a while ago, really interesting stuff actually. Should prove to be a nice breakthrough if they get it working on their test-apes.
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  • SnidelySnidely Join Date: 2003-02-04 Member: 13098Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Trevelyan+Apr 28 2005, 12:46 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Trevelyan @ Apr 28 2005, 12:46 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Excellent... I'll go sign up to be suspended till an alien race takes over the planet. I'm sure they'll run things much better then us around here.

    <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pudgy.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    It'd be funny if we were taken over by a race of morons.

    "Duh, what's an economy?"
    "No, my pension! Argh!"
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  • Seph_KimaraSeph_Kimara Join Date: 2003-08-10 Member: 19359Members
    Isn't that kind of how like things are now anyway?
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  • TrevelyanTrevelyan Join Date: 2003-03-23 Member: 14834Members
    edited April 2005
    <!--QuoteBegin-Snidely+Apr 28 2005, 12:52 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Snidely @ Apr 28 2005, 12:52 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Trevelyan+Apr 28 2005, 12:46 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Trevelyan @ Apr 28 2005, 12:46 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Excellent... I'll go sign up to be suspended till an alien race takes over the planet. I'm sure they'll run things much better then us around here.

    <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pudgy.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    It'd be funny if we were taken over by a race of morons.

    "Duh, what's an economy?"
    "No, my pension! Argh!" <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    How stupid would humans have to be for that to happen...

    oh... you're right.

    How about leaving all your money in the bank and showing up 200 years later to collect the massive interest? <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->

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  • Nil_IQNil_IQ Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15520Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Snidely+Apr 28 2005, 12:52 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Snidely @ Apr 28 2005, 12:52 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Trevelyan+Apr 28 2005, 12:46 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Trevelyan @ Apr 28 2005, 12:46 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Excellent... I'll go sign up to be suspended till an alien race takes over the planet. I'm sure they'll run things much better then us around here.

    <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pudgy.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    It'd be funny if we were taken over by a race of morons.

    "Duh, what's an economy?"
    "No, my pension! Argh!" <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    We could be taken over by that race from that episode of star-trek.... I forget what they were called.

    "We find things. Things to make us go."

    </nerd>
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  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    And so, the last thing you notice as you go into suspended animation for your fourty-year trip to Alpha Centauri is the overwhelming stench of rotten eggs...
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  • SpetsnazSpetsnaz Join Date: 2003-12-26 Member: 24761Members, Constellation
    edited April 2005
    <!--QuoteBegin-Snidely+Apr 28 2005, 05:52 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Snidely @ Apr 28 2005, 05:52 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Trevelyan+Apr 28 2005, 12:46 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Trevelyan @ Apr 28 2005, 12:46 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Excellent... I'll go sign up to be suspended till an alien race takes over the planet. I'm sure they'll run things much better then us around here.

    <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pudgy.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    It'd be funny if we were taken over by a race of morons.

    "Duh, what's an economy?"
    "No, my pension! Argh!" <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    what you mean <i>taken over</i>, the race of morons have been running our countries for ages!
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  • DOOManiacDOOManiac Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
    Considering that nearly every movie involving putting humans to sleep in a state of suspended animation invaribly ends with either:
    1) an encounter with a hostile alien race...
    2) being deserted on some out-of-the-way planet...
    3) returning to earth to find that human beings have destroyed themselves and a new species has evolved in their place...
    .. I think I'll pass. :P
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  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-DOOManiac+Apr 28 2005, 03:32 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DOOManiac @ Apr 28 2005, 03:32 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> 3) returning to earth to find that human beings have destroyed themselves and a new species has evolved in their place...
    .. I think I'll pass. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I'd go for #3.
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  • SpacerSpacer Invented dogs Join Date: 2003-05-02 Member: 16008Members
    What if you came back and it was just like Demolition Man? That would be pretty awesome.
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  • Seph_KimaraSeph_Kimara Join Date: 2003-08-10 Member: 19359Members
    But then you get the mystery of the 3 seashells.
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  • SpetsnazSpetsnaz Join Date: 2003-12-26 Member: 24761Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-Seph Kimara+Apr 28 2005, 10:48 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Seph Kimara @ Apr 28 2005, 10:48 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> But then you get the mystery of the 3 seashells. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Then you must avoid the swear filter. so get practice on here!

    **** **** ****

    dam, i fail in life
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  • SnidelySnidely Join Date: 2003-02-04 Member: 13098Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-DOOManiac+Apr 28 2005, 05:32 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DOOManiac @ Apr 28 2005, 05:32 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> 3) returning to earth to find that human beings have destroyed themselves and a new species has evolved in their place...
    .. I think I'll pass. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Why? It would be pretty cool to live with a race of LIZARD PEOPLE.

    They would place a wreath of flowers around your neck, and invite you to dance in the warm, warm sun. Doo doo doodoodoodoo doo doo
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  • MantridMantrid Lockpick Join Date: 2003-12-07 Member: 24109Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-DOOManiac+Apr 28 2005, 02:32 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DOOManiac @ Apr 28 2005, 02:32 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> 3) returning to earth to find that human beings have destroyed themselves <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    But hey, what if the world turns out like Fallout? You could wait out the radiation in space in hibernation, and then go kick some ****!
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  • BreakthroughBreakthrough Texture Artist (ns_prometheus) Join Date: 2005-03-27 Member: 46620Members, Constellation
    When you're in this state, you will still need regular food/water/bowel movements, right?
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  • theclamtheclam Join Date: 2004-08-01 Member: 30290Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Breakthrough+Apr 28 2005, 08:43 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Breakthrough @ Apr 28 2005, 08:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> When you're in this state, you will still need regular food/water/bowel movements, right? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I don't think so.

    <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->In this case, suspended animation means the reversible cessation of <b>all visible life processes in an organism.</b><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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  • DOOManiacDOOManiac Worst. Critic. Ever. Join Date: 2002-04-17 Member: 462Members, NS1 Playtester
    Think like what bears do in the winter.

    They sleep.

    Yeah. that's kinda like this.
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  • CondizzleCondizzle Join Date: 2004-10-05 Member: 32107Members
    Wake me up when the gorges invade. Then, we donce.
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  • Private_ColemanPrivate_Coleman PhD in Video Games Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7510Members
    What are these seashells you speak of?
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  • Cold_NiTeCold_NiTe Join Date: 2003-09-15 Member: 20875Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Snidely+Apr 28 2005, 06:19 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Snidely @ Apr 28 2005, 06:19 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-DOOManiac+Apr 28 2005, 05:32 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DOOManiac @ Apr 28 2005, 05:32 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> 3) returning to earth to find that human beings have destroyed themselves and a new species has evolved in their place...
    .. I think I'll pass. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Why? It would be pretty cool to live with a race of LIZARD PEOPLE.

    They would place a wreath of flowers around your neck, and invite you to dance in the warm, warm sun. Doo doo doodoodoodoo doo doo <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Guys I think Snidely's been sniffing glue sticks again.

    He was probably one of those kids who ate paste when they were younger. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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