This is some seriously cool stuff: Sorry for the long quote, but i know how lazy you people are . Full Link. This looks like some pretty decent stuff imho, the good news is that the mice recovered with no ill effects, rather than say, being brain damaged or something. LZ426 here we come!
Hehe I was gonna say the same thing, the thought of breathing in something that smells like rotten eggs doesnt sound all too great to me!
True, but it's better to breathe that and hibernate than end up rattling around on a spaceship for a few years while you whip off to Titan or wherever.
Only trouble is we don't kniow where to go to yet(no earth like planets been discovered yet). And assuming there was an Earth like planet in the nearest star system to our own the journey time would be something like 20,000 years at current technology. David
The problem with this experiment, no matter how nice it all sounds, is that like most rodents, mice hibernate. As such the h2s mixture may simply be activating a metabolic function that is already present in mice. If they can replicate this experiment with animals that do not habitually hibernate, I will do the dance of joy.
Saw this on slashdot. A couple good points made. Besides the toxicity, the fact that you'll probably get overrun by all the bacteria in and on you with your metabolism running at 10% Yikes!
Shouldn't do --any bacteria should be running at 10% as well. Virusses can only replicate via cell metabolic processes so their multiplication should be reduced to 10% as well.
maybe mice can replace astronauts? just a thought if the whole hibernation theory doesn't work out... probably gnaw through all the equipment. destructive buggers.
Read on bbc news that there was a spider that got traped in a freezer and was caught in suspended animation
I wonder when the white coats will realize that we don't even have tails... I don't think that experiements done on mice should be taken with a grain of salt. Yeah... we're both mammals, anything else in common (other than mammal-istic features)? People have been in a sort of semi-hiberation type thing too. That uber-advanced hypothermia thing. Something to the effect of dying of shock from exposure to extremely cold water but coming back to life once you warm up. Don't wanna try that myself though...
