Scientists Invent Oxygen Particle, Allows You To Live Without Breathing

My mother has idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a disease that irreversibly scars the lungs, restricting breathing over time. My grandmother died of it; my aunt just had both lungs transplanted; my mother is at the front of the list for a double-lung transplant (and can be called in at any time - we all have to keep our cell phones on). There's every chance I or my sister will be diagnosed with it in the future. And it kills as many people in the US as breast cancer each year.

This would dramatically increase quality of life. Instead of having to cart torpedo-sized oxygen tanks everywhere, sufferers could inject themselves with this substance, and either downgrade their oxygen equipment or do without it entirely. It wouldn't be a cure, but it would almost certainly increase health overall while waiting for a transplant, and increase the chances of survival during one.

Forget Mars exploration, or undersea military missions. For a lot of people, breathing normally while living normal lives is science fiction enough.

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also, this sentence broke my brain: Well what if they really couldn’t “breathe” water” but since the urge to breathe is natural, that must take place…

To me, and I really have to think of the the Simpsons movie when I say this, that just goes to show when you dream a dream, it can also become a website with technology in it. At the end of the day, that's something you can take away from all this, and that's nothing short of okay.