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Tachyon8491
SCIENTISTS have created eerie zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans.

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US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of clinical death, paving the way for trials on humans within years.

Makes one wonder whether this will have just purely positive therapeutic potentials - or if in some not too remote future it may even be applied in the penal arena for enforced suspended animation as punishment - such as used a while back in the theme of a sci-fi movie starring Sylvester Stallone.
g_max
oh boy, and 28 days later..... the dog dies!!!!
hondo
it's nice to be on the ground floor watching how a hoax works - this is interesting - curious how far it will get before someone realizes their being played - hello George Romero and beautiful downtown Pittsburgh Pa
JavaTool
What kind of a picture is that? cool.gif
monza
The picture is non-related... except that it's a dog/wolf and it's probably cold.

Safar is real though...
Bluerose
There's no reason not to think this institute is not experimenting on these helpless dogs just as the article says. Those filty researchers do it every day. I believe the article. The goal is seen in mainstream movies, like in "Aliens": To stay in hybernation in space.
kriegschwein
good god the last thing we need is dead people walking around, havent they seen the movies tongue.gif
jeo
This is a load of crap. It's there to stir up all the stupid terrorists that support PETA and their buddies the Conspiracy Theorists. ph34r.gif
Centurion
I've been preparing for the attack of zombies and I'm glad to know it starting now. I can't wait to get shooting zombies. biggrin.gif
Guest_neurohacker
A Dog with no Mind.
Its starts after the Body of said Dog Programs The Brain???????????????


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chilly
It's not a hoax, scientists have used high concentrations of sulfur dioxide on mice and were able to successfully revive them even after 6 hours of suspended animation. The article with the details is somewhere in the archives here and on livescience dot com. The article was posted within the last month.

-chilly
picasso
There was a science fiction story I read about people who had been held in suspended animation pending the creation of a cure for a specific disease. The plot centers around a lady who has a great great grandmother coming out of storage to receive her treatment. So she brings the grandmother home, and the grandmother starts eating people. It turns out that there were these aliens who had been orbiting the planet for some time, but they couldn't go down to Earth because they had problems with matter or something. But they found these bodies ("empty vessels") ready for them to occupy in spirit. Apparently, the soul has left, but the body's were "alive". Creepy.
Albert Wesker
I am a current employee of Safar Incorporated. This is most definately a scientific experiment that we are currently working on. But this is simply for suspended animation purposes only and not for zombification. Please be adviced that the animals that we are experimenting on are already dead. No animals were harmed during the process of our genetic accomplishments.
JavaTool
Albert Wesker, I certainly like your credentials laugh.gif
aardan
It just occurred to me that some of my coworkers may have been used in these experiments. Of course, it could be the Xanax so many of them take.
phenob
Remember - getting them in the throat or the chest doesn't work. You gotta get em right in the brain. Shotgun .. shovel .. stake .. whatever. Just as long as you get the brain.
phenob
oh and don't forget to use jelly beans for eyes. Gives those pups a really eerie look.
rodonelt
What about exchange of heads, hearts etc between 2 zombied dogs before waking up?
or

attaching 2 of the zombie dogs together into 1 single dog?

Usually the doctors separate conjointed twins. Here, 2 dogs can be quickly sued up together into 1 unit!

Very very horrible, though.
Guest
I do wonder about Mr. Albert Wesker, or is that perhaps Mr. Albino Whisker?

Something in his post certainly does not gel from a scientific protocol sense: "The dogs are already dead..." According to the official site release live dogs are used in these experiments, injected with saline solution to replace all their blood, kept in suspension for various test periods, and then "brought back" by replacing their original blood content and applying electrostimulation.

The statement that these dogs are "already dead" appears to refer to a humanly induced condition, unless there is a somewhat mystical alien intervention somewhere during the process that Mr. Whisker is not prepared to divulge.

Could it be that Mr. Whisker is a close relative of Dr. Kavorkian mayhaps?
CPT SADO
laugh.gif the dead will be walking soon.be ready to shoot them in the head.
selronee
If 2 dogs are sewed up together into one, they will be biting each other up like hell after waking. How long can you restrain them both. If by any chance they are made to get hungry, they will be chewing each other up without any doubt. While under stress they are damned serious carnivores (omnivores is too mild a term)!
Danbridge
Latest news in this research is that in a recent experiment things went very sadly wrong when a husky Alsation grabbed the intravenous probe with its icey saline solution intended for its neck, and plunged it deep into the experimentor's gluteal muscle after which it appears to have stealthily left the premises for a more hospitable environment.

Mr. Wloy D. Krab, neurophysicist, is presently recovering in hospital after fourteen hours of chilly suspended animation. He unfortunately appears temporarily bereft of intelligeable speech and can only manage growling noises and bark-like sounds. Shoving away his breakfast of fried eggs on toast when I visited him this morning, he instead grabbed the box of dogfood I carry with me to treat strays on my various travels and devoured the contents in a mere minute. I did not stay long after detecting what I perceived as hidden aggression in his dark pupils and advised the nurse in charge to perhaps wisely invest in a muzzle, the kind they use on, uhm, dogs.

P. Danbridge
Freelance reporter and dog lover
Guest
if this dog not want to head human it's ok laugh.gif if not kill im!
Guest
if this dog not want to eat human it's ok laugh.gif if not kill im!
Guest_guest
albert wesker was a character from the resident evil series. he was a researcher for the umbrella corp. that created the virus that caused people to become zombies.
zombie killer 123
ill e ready for the attack ive been reacrhing zombies my self ill do any thing to help any 1 cos i own a gun shop tongue.gif if any 1 is in the uk that is did any 1 no that zombies can flote on water and not die ??
Guest_Paul
QUOTE (Danbridge+Jul 1 2005, 02:07 AM)
Latest news in this research is that in a recent experiment things went very sadly wrong when a husky Alsation grabbed the intravenous probe with its icey saline solution intended for its neck, and plunged it deep into the experimentor's gluteal muscle after which it appears to have stealthily left the premises for a more hospitable environment. 

Mr. Wloy D. Krab, neurophysicist, is presently recovering in hospital after fourteen hours of chilly suspended animation. He unfortunately appears temporarily bereft of intelligeable speech and can only manage growling noises and bark-like sounds. Shoving away his breakfast of fried eggs on toast when I visited him this morning, he instead grabbed the box of dogfood I carry with me to treat strays on my various travels and devoured the contents in a mere minute. I did not stay long after detecting what I perceived as hidden aggression in his dark pupils and advised the nurse in charge to perhaps wisely invest in a muzzle, the kind they use on, uhm, dogs.

P. Danbridge
Freelance reporter and dog lover

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El_Machinae
Everyone, the mocking is funny, but let's think about this from a scientific point of view.

The scientists were able to get the dogs to the point where they in a statis so deep that it mimicks clinical death - and then brought them back. That's pretty amazing. That means that there is hope for people who are really near clinical death, or even AT clinical death of being revived. The body can recover from a point below our (current) ability to measure it. That's pretty amazing.

The 'zombie dogs' title is just rude, because it makes fun of good science. This science means that theories like cryonics have potential. This science is good because the idea of putting people into hybernation has potential. Suppose a patient's heart transplant is delayed - normally the patient would die, but with this technology, we can slow their death enough to save them.

Interstellar flight and cryonics are EXCELLENT things to work for, because it will save lives and allow us to expand our human potential. Mocking this research hurts it, and thus hurts people that could be helped by it.

Here's another article but using pigs.

QUOTE
Researchers are testing potentially life-saving techniques for keeping humans in a state of suspended animation while surgeons repair their wounds.


Think about being able to save your older familty members' lives. Think about YOU actually getting to space.
Neil Farbstein
QUOTE (El_Machinae+Apr 1 2006, 07:19 PM)
Everyone, the mocking is funny, but let's think about this from a scientific point of view.

The scientists were able to get the dogs to the point where they in a statis so deep that it mimicks clinical death - and then brought them back. That's pretty amazing. That means that there is hope for people who are really near clinical death, or even AT clinical death of being revived. The body can recover from a point below our (current) ability to measure it. That's pretty amazing.

The 'zombie dogs' title is just rude, because it makes fun of good science. This science means that theories like cryonics have potential. This science is good because the idea of putting people into hybernation has potential. Suppose a patient's heart transplant is delayed - normally the patient would die, but with this technology, we can slow their death enough to save them.

Interstellar flight and cryonics are EXCELLENT things to work for, because it will save lives and allow us to expand our human potential. Mocking this research hurts it, and thus hurts people that could be helped by it.

Here's another article but using pigs.

QUOTE
Researchers are testing potentially life-saving techniques for keeping humans in a state of suspended animation while surgeons repair their wounds.


Think about being able to save your older familty members' lives. Think about YOU actually getting to space.

The contract you signed is unbreakable. In tenminutes we cool you down in the cryogenic cylinder and then we give you a one way trip into the future. You have no future you cant get out of it...
Good Elf
Hi All,

This is just a tabloid take on Suspended Animation. Last year it was announced that Hydrogen Sulphide gas introduced into the bloodstream induced metabolic hibernation in mammals (including man). Lowering of body temperature to a minimum of 4 degrees Centigrade is possibly also involved but no freezing since that will cause death. It represents an ancient metabolic pathway dormant since we were single celled archaeozoans in the Precambrian but still available to be used. Obviously no dog is dying here (until they are dissected afterwards).
Mice put in 'suspended animation'

As to zombies I suggest you get a grip... So called zombies in Haiti are the exploitation of the poor by a sick religious cult for their own purposes to "redistribute" their property and create a slave class using Fugu Fish (Toad fish) poison. Once again you fools are simply helping perpetuate those myths and cause harm to innocent lives through your superstitious ignorance. Your "games" are not welcome you are supposed to be scientists.

The worst "zombies" in the world are those with the channel changer in their hands and Cable TV.

Cheers
Confused2
Hi all, dogs mice etc..

I'm not sure to what extent electrical activity in the brain ceases. One view of brain activity is that it requires a constant (or occasional) refresh to maintain memories. Cooling to a few degrees C might reduce the refresh requirement but would certainly not eliminate it. Alternatively one could propose pathways are maintained by the presence of chemicals (in combination with refresh) .. these chemicals would diffuse away slowly in the absence of a refresh cycle. Only if neurons alter their physical character for each new 'memory' (unlikely?) can longer term 'off' periods be maintained at normal temperatures without serious damage to the subject. Serious damage (fugu fish or other cause) = Zombie.

-C2.

Good Elf
Hi Confused2,

Gee you are picky. This "effect" was only discovered last year and you want all the answers "now". I think "freezing" will kill you... bottom line there. Nothing below 4 degrees. Best that will ever be done will be "suspension" ... for a long time with circulation maintained by an external cardiac pump... but at a low rate. I expect that some waste and nutrients will need to be circulated in the bodies of those in suspension other than Hydrogen Sulphide and other cocktails to supplement and protect tissues. But since this stops or extremely reduces metabolism this will almost arrest aging as far as this goes perhaps for hundreds of years but not indefinitely. It will certainly save on "consumables" on a long space trip and with certain "incentives" the body can be in "repair" mode rather than "reproductive" mode to minimize radiation damage.

My view is that this technique will initially be used in battlefield conditions to preserve life until you get the patient to a hospital and proper treatment.

As a side issue... some simple forms of life can be completely dehydrated even "freeze dried" and reanimated with the addition of water such as tardigrades.
User posted image
TARDIGRADES: BEARS OF THE MOSS They go into suspension through a process called "cryptobiosis". Survival of 100 years or more has been noted. This is "complete" bio-suspension. There is no metabolism at all. I doubt that humans can do this though.
http://www.astrobio.net/news/article261.html

Cheers
Your fellow human (yfh)
QUOTE (Good Elf+Apr 3 2006, 03:12 PM)
Hi Confused2,

Gee you are picky. This "effect" was only discovered last year and you want all the answers "now". I think "freezing" will kill you... bottom line there. Nothing below 4 degrees. Best that will ever be done will be "suspension" ... for a long time with circulation maintained by an external cardiac pump... but at a low rate. I expect that some waste and nutrients will need to be circulated in the bodies of those in suspension other than Hydrogen Sulphide and other cocktails to supplement and protect tissues. But since this stops or extremely reduces metabolism this will almost arrest aging as far as this goes perhaps for hundreds of years but not indefinitely. It will certainly save on "consumables" on a long space trip and with certain "incentives" the body can be in "repair" mode rather than "reproductive" mode to minimize radiation damage.

My view is that this technique will initially be used in battlefield conditions to preserve life until you get the patient to a hospital and proper treatment.

As a side issue... some simple forms of life can be completely dehydrated even "freeze dried" and reanimated with the addition of water such as tardigrades.
User posted image
TARDIGRADES: BEARS OF THE MOSS They go into suspension through a process called "cryptobiosis". Survival of 100 years or more has been noted. This is "complete" bio-suspension. There is no metabolism at all. I doubt that humans can do this though.
http://www.astrobio.net/news/article261.html

Cheers

But if a posthuman was biologically engineered to be capable of all this and more someday? Imagine if cryonics did not need to be externally asisted, and a person's going into "shock" would be replaced by an automatic self-suspection.
El_Machinae
QUOTE
think "freezing" will kill you... bottom line there


I don't think that a frozen embryo should count as being dead. If an embryo does not die, then it's just the brain that matters.

After reading about zero electrical activity and epilepsy, I'm not sure that the current electrical status of the brain is all that important (it can easily be heavily altered, returned, and you'll still be 'you') - except as something you want to return to.

To me, it's the neuronal connections that seem to matter the most.
philip347
Get this terminology right, before you go on.

1. A drug induced by a momma doc, i.e. Haiti voodoo priestess, utilizes a range of drugs, which aconite, is one of the ingredients.

This will induce a person, to a machine-like stupor, to where they can work for long hours.

This practice has been noted in both the Caribbean islands, as well as the old American south, to pay off debts.

* Once the debt has been paid off, the drug stupor, is reversed.

2. Said viral zombieism, which is a virus, said to attack the piamatter of the human brain, cause death trough the delivery of the said zombie virus, into a person's bloodstream.

This virus, causes death,. by arresting the metabolism, by a cloud of internal death.The victim reports a high fever, an apparent lack of cell lyses, at the sometimes bite wound.

This is followed by a raging high fever, comma, then death.

Upon death, the soul spirit complex, is chased out of the body and the said vital zombie virus, totally rewrite the DNA transcriptase,. assembly faze.

There is not a marked need for nutrition sustenance, as the body, is technically dead, however functions at is what is termed as a lower biological vitea level.

The upper higher functions issued by the once former healthy brain are ceased and the reptile, functionary brain, is activated.

There is however only a light response for the now largely unfuctioning brain, such as some recognition of faces and companions.

However, by and large, this ability is not present within the individual, who has succumbed to viral zombieism.The subject, is more or less, a walking deceased person.

* Note there is and have been well founded intimations, that the Russians have variated some form of this virus, in order to construct a super solider.This type of soldier would be less susceptible to pain and battlefield injuries, as they have been modified.

Please also be aware, of late reports also filtering our of Russian, that under leader Joseph Stalin, there was also an attempt to breed certain forms of apes into solders, which would have made them more effective on the battlefield.

> Note, in the incidence, of the church covered-up affair, of the written about vampire plague reports. This style of inception of both the vampire plagues and the supposed said zombie plagues, is that they are similar in their introduction actions, placed upon the human physio factors.

This is fever, malaise, high fever, swelling the of glands of the lymph system, lack of cells lyses at the bite wound, comma, then cessation of life?

Philip 347
zombie killer 123
[FONT=Arial][SIZE=7][COLOR=orange] any one in hear live in the u.k? cos then you can b with me when the attack comes to us smile.gif
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