> 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.
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.
> 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.)
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.
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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."
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