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tomhow · 2 months ago
themafia · 2 months ago
> 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.

7 of them went home and never spoke of it again.

weird-eye-issue · 2 months ago
That's a lot of liquid to retain, it would feel very weird
stronglikedan · 2 months ago
But it would feel amazing upon release
highfrequencyy · 2 months ago
How did they advertise this experiment?
flowerthoughts · 2 months ago
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.

Dead Comment

Aspos · 2 months ago
So "blowing smoke up one's arse" isn't a completely baseless resuscitation technique after all.
NoPicklez · 2 months ago
Haha I said the same
Electricniko · 2 months ago
Excuse me, I just gotta go unblock my airway.
philsnow · 2 months ago
> 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.)

diogenescynic · 2 months ago
"Are you a nose or mouth breather?"

"...I'm a butt breather."

Fix sleep apnea with this one weird trick!

Why are new CPAP machines so uncomfortable?

eth0up · 2 months ago
I think we can now finally spell it as we've always been tempted to. Continuous R.. A.. P
AtlasBarfed · 2 months ago
Here comes the next anally focused franchise opportunity for Southern California
grim_io · 2 months ago
To think I've been doing breathing wrong all these years...