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WolfDawg
06-28-2005, 05:56 PM
Didn't see this posted

SCIENTISTS have created eerie zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans.

US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of clinical death, paving the way for trials on humans within years.
Pittsburgh's Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research has developed a technique in which subject's veins are drained of blood and filled with an ice-cold salt solution.

The animals are considered scientifically dead, as they stop breathing and have no heartbeat or brain activity.

But three hours later, their blood is replaced and the zombie dogs are brought back to life with an electric shock.

Plans to test the technique on humans should be realised within a year, according to the Safar Centre.

However rather than sending people to sleep for years, then bringing them back to life to benefit from medical advances, the boffins would be happy to keep people in this state for just a few hours,

But even this should be enough to save lives such as battlefield casualties and victims of stabbings or gunshot wounds, who have suffered huge blood loss.

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During the procedure blood is replaced with saline solution at a few degrees above zero. The dogs' body temperature drops to only 7C, compared with the usual 37C, inducing a state of hypothermia before death.

Although the animals are clinically dead, their tissues and organs are perfectly preserved.

Damaged blood vessels and tissues can then be repaired via surgery. The dogs are brought back to life by returning the blood to their bodies,giving them 100 per cent oxygen and applying electric shocks to restart their hearts.

Tests show they are perfectly normal, with no brain damage.

"The results are stunning. I think in 10 years we will be able to prevent death in a certain segment of those using this technology," said one US battlefield doctor.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15739502-13762,00.html

You gotta check out the picture with the article.

I wonder if the only way to kill them now is to shot them in the head?

Zebedee DuBois
06-28-2005, 06:04 PM
Do the zombie dogs want to eat dog brains? or brains from any and all species?

WolfDawg
06-28-2005, 06:08 PM
Hmmm good question.

I would imagine just after live dogs, after all human zombies don't go after live dogs.

I can't be sure however, I haven't read all of the scientific papers on this subject.

listopencil
06-28-2005, 06:14 PM
****ing brilliant. I supposed my Broncos will sign one of them to help shore up our D-Line any day now.

WolfDawg
06-28-2005, 06:16 PM
Well after taking Warren and Brown you will need all the help you can get, so you never know.

listopencil
06-28-2005, 06:24 PM
I like a healthy Pryce, Ellis and the addition of Ekuban. After that...well...I'll keep this article handy.

WolfDawg
06-28-2005, 06:55 PM
I like a healthy Pryce, Ellis and the addition of Ekuban. After that...well...I'll keep this article handy.


damn you got Ekuban to? Thats almost the entire started Browns d-line from last year, you are in trouble.

Ekuban is a decent 3rd down pass rusher, but don't ask him to stop the run. You have a better percent chance of the RB tripping over his own feet than Ekuban tackling him.