Scientists Revive 3 Hour Dead Dogs

[Joseph]

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.

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At least they didn't use Dobermans. :confuz:

[johnfl68]

Make me think of the movie Re-Animator:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089885/

John

[Terra]

Smithers, release the hounds!

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Terra
--exceeeellent--
FutureQuest

[PaulKroll]

(Burns wants to get a famous singer to impress Marge Simpson)
Burns: We can dig up Al Jolson
Smithers: We did that once, remember sir? He's been dead for quite some time.
Burns: Oh yes, rather pungent too. The rest of that evening is something I'd rather forget.

[Wassercrats]

Misleading headline. They're just dead then they're perfectly normal when they're brought back. People who have died in cold temperatures have been brought back after a longer period of time than the doctors plan on suspending people for with this technique.

[PaulKroll]

Well, children who drown in freezing water have been under for like, 40 minutes and brought back, but that's rare, and often leaves brain damage, and generally drowning to achieve suspended animation only works one way. :hrmm:

I'm not aware of anyone dead and brought back after three hours, which is the only time period mentioned in the article.

Oh, and adults don't do as well as kids, generally, which is why I mentioned "children" and not "people".

[Joseph]

and often leaves brain damage

I think that's one of the biggest breakthroughs with this new method, they claim to have no brain damage at all.

[Wassercrats]

I couldn't find anything reliable about a human being brought back to life after three hours. The closest I found is from July 1998 at http://yarchive.net/med/definition_of_death.html :The record for essentially full recovery of a cold water drowned child is over 60 minutes immersion. Set in Utah, where they have a lot of toddlers and a lot of cold mountain stream water. Don't wait for Florida to catch up.

Steve Harris, M.D.

[Wassercrats]

There's also Pond 'Death' Toddler Revived after Seven Hours (http://www.paramedic.org.uk/news_archive/2004/07/News_Item.2004-07-14.0728/view)A toddler was brought back to life more than seven hours after he was discovered face down in a garden pond, it emerged today. Two-year-old Joe Towey was showing no signs of life when he was pulled out of the water at his Birmingham home and taken to hospital. But I'm not sure how long the toddler was actually dead.

[cindik]

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At least they didn't use Dobermans. :confuz:

Three hunderd years ago
Thought I might get some sleep
Stretched myself out onna antique bed
An' my spirit did a midnight creep

You know I'll never sleep no more

To me it seem that is just ain't wise

Didja ever wake up in the mornin'
With a ZOMBY WOOF behind your eyes
- Frank Zappa

[Andilinks]

I'd like to postpone my snooze at least until the brain damage thing is fixed... Is Ted Williams' head still on ice? What about Disney? It's gonna be a heck of a reunion, just make sure your portfolio is fully diversified.

I read Heinlein's Door into Summer when I was nine years old...

http://www.sfsite.com/11a/dis92.htm

Andi

[Randall]

Misleading headline. They're just dead then they're perfectly normal when they're brought back. I tend to think of "dead" as being somethiing you don't recover from. If you can put people on ice for three hours and then revive them without any ill effects, then they ain't really dead, are they?

I'm reserving judgement on Ted Williams' head.

Randall

[Andilinks]

I tend to think of "dead" as being somethiing you don't recover from. Yes, I'd take it a step further and define 'death' as irreversible. This is more conceptual than legal though. Occasionally death must have a definition that does not reach into the future for its meaning.

Andy