Suspended Animation is where an animal or some other organisms have been frozen from cold or some other way and for all intents and purposes dead, but by heating them up they can come back to life and be unharmed. They think that by lowering the metabolic rate with a toxic gas called hydrogen sulfide humans can be suspended for several hours and be brought back, unharmed. This gas is present inside of humans, it reduces the demand for oxygen and in cold places this can be useful in keeping us alive. This gas has proven to reduce reduce organ damage in animals and is being tested on humans to see if this reduction is also present in humans. This gas is used to save thousands of babies per year. I find this to be very interesting, this could help us as a human race. It could also harm us, not by using the gas but by giving us a way to immortality. If this gas was available to everyone and they knew how to use it we would have less deaths, our world is steadily reaching its maximum capacity and this suspended animation could give problems with overpopulation.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
November 2017
Categories |