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First thing I needed to check that I have not woke up in alternate reality and that today is not 1 April, after I remembered that some drug addicts use similar techniques to get high.
Some Supreme Court justices as well :)
We've been ventilating rats with anal perfluorocarbons for years now and all we've really learned is that ten percent of them seem to like it.
Wild. Citation?
The rectum is an interesting place. You can apparently also absorb water there, if you are severely dehydrated and unable to hold anything down (eg seasick). All you need, the saying goes, is a funnel and a friend.. full disclosure: I've not tried that!
We're pouring liquids into our butts right? What's the friend for? Can't one do that on their own?
Oddly enough it also seems possible to feed people through their anus, it was a humiliation tactic used in Abu Ghraib https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/09/cia-report-r...
[1] https://youtu.be/Ug5jVUv5V_A
[2] actually a South Park episode. NSFW
I believe the liquid they are mentioning was featured in the movie The Abyss. It is painful for humans to breathe the liquid. But apparently giving you an enema with it works! Amazing.
Makes me chuckle thinking of the next movie about future divers having tubes going into the rectum, not the mouth.
The rectum is an interesting place. You can apparently also absorb water there, if you are severely dehydrated and unable to hold anything down (eg seasick). All you need, the saying goes, is a funnel and a friend.. full disclosure: I've not tried that!
These people spent 37 days in a 9ft dinghy in the ocean. A ladder rung, plus the rain water mixed with turtle guts from the bottom of the boat saved their lives. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/aug/22/shipwre...
Unbelievable!
Reminded me of the scene from an old underwater sci-fi flic (? was it 'The Abyss' https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0096754/), where the deep-divers had to learn how to 'breathe' the oxygenated liquid instead of air.
Speaking of liquid, there was also an example of 'fluid animation' (is it the term?), later also seen in Terminator 2 (the unkillable and self-reassembling T-1000) and other movies.
The thing that surprised me most with this was the injectable perfluorocarbon emulsion . And it’s apparently even standard practice . Oxidation damage is actually the bigger risk. And here I was, fearing pizza trays and non-stick pans.