Please get James Randi's people involved.
Super-extreme fasting with Prahlad Jani (70+ years without water or food)
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#12Is he a Steorn salesman by any chance?
Thermodynamics isn't just a good idea people, it's the law.
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#13I am vegetarian. Can live several year in a row without meat.
Most of my friends can not survive two days - the begin to have cravings. Am I miracle?
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#14I would like to make a feature request. When I click "flag" I would like to be able to add a comment as to why I flagged the article, for catharsis. For instance, for this article I would like to be able to write "this is so fucking stupid" without it polluting the general comment stream. I don't even care if the comment shows up anywhere... just the act of typing it would counterbalance the blood pressure spike I get from reading dumb fucking headlines like this.
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#15My prior for this claim being true is ~0. (IE - the evidence that he can go years without food or water should have to be extremely compelling to come close to convincing you.)
I think that's why the India's Defence Research Development Organisation is looking into it. What is the number of days a "normal" human can survive without food or water? If I recall correctly it was 3 or 4. Although it may vary depending on the environment and activity conditions.
Most people can go a pretty long time without actual food, so long as they have water and a few key vitamins to help the body metabolize its own fat stores and proteins. People only last a few days without any water.
Water + vitamin fasting is sustainable for weeks or months, if I recall correctly. I don't remember the specifics, but I think B12 is the most important.
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#16The video in the article shows him in various postures, but never moving. I wonder why this is so. The video mentions (4'18") that the same team studied another guy, mechanical engineer Mr Manek, who survives only on boiled water: "They conclusively proved that Mr Manek did indeed survive on nothing but water and cosmic energy". I wonder how they did the cosmic energy bit?
"... Mr Manek did indeed survive on nothing but water and cosmic energy"
Is he the dragon warrior?