Slocum@HI-MULTICS.ARPA (Brett Slocum) (03/06/86)
> This is speculation, not established fact.
I recall a striking photo in a science magazine that showed a mouse
submerged in an aquarium of oxygenated perflurocarbons, or a similar
liquid. It seemed to be doing fine, and had adjusted somewhat to the
environment.
--Brett Slocum <Slocum at HI-MULTICS.ARPA>cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) (03/08/86)
> > This is speculation, not established fact. > > I recall a striking photo in a science magazine that showed a mouse > submerged in an aquarium of oxygenated perflurocarbons, or a similar > liquid. It seemed to be doing fine, and had adjusted somewhat to the > environment. > > --Brett Slocum <Slocum at HI-MULTICS.ARPA> I remember reading some years ago about experiments done in the Soviet Union in which dogs managed to live in a highly oxygenated pool of water. (Sorry, I don't remember the source -- it may not be a reputable one. Unfortunately, research behind the Iron Curtain tends to be published in sensationalistic publications -- no reflection on the Soviets or their scientists -- it's just the "exoticness" of it all that provokes National Enquirer to tell you about it.)
carroll@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU (03/09/86)
I think I recall that, but if my memory chips are not getting parity errors, I believe that while the rats survived inside the liquid, none survived re-entering a gas atmosphere.
aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP (03/10/86)
About breathing liquids: A long time ago I did a science fair project on aqualungs and the like. I could swear that one of my sources was a Scientific American article about lungfishes; possibly in the same article some researcher described flooding the lungs with oxygen rich and salt balanced water. I even think that he did it to himself.