• Vizuzia [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I think that dying and coming back to life would result in a lot of brain damage

  • PasswordRememberer [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Is it crazy that my first thought was "oh no, if I die they might revive me and make me keep working"?

    Death to America

  • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    The way this is phrased also makes it difficult to be optimistic about its usefulness. Who cares if the heart starts beating again if the fuckin pig's still dead? lol

      • fox [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Cuba announcing an effective treatment for Alzheimer's like a week before the news that 20 years of western Alzheimer's research was bullshit really does give me hope

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      Who cares if the heart starts beating again

      I mean, for starters, anyone who just suffered a stroke or a heart attack.

      This doesn't need to be a treatment for dead beings, just dead cells.

  • MarxGuns [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    We're all just complicated biological machines aren't we? Or rather, hundreds of thousands of biological machines operating in a complex system, operating in a larger external system both ecologically and culturally ('we live in a society'?).

  • Vampire [any]
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    2 years ago

    I never understood why people do things like post a screenshot of a link aggregator about a story about a study. (Sorry for being a grumpy old man.)

    Here's the story: https://nyti.ms/3BGoIPh

    Here's the study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05016-1

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      post a screenshot of a link aggregator about a story about a study

      Because that's what they say and they're just passing it along. The Nature article is dense as dirt and twice as dry. The NYT article is your standard tier Lib bullshit where they pad the word count waxing poetic about what this means philosophically while bending over backwards to convince the readers that no animals were harmed in the making of this zombie.

      Its clickbait and it will be treated as clickbait.

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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      2 years ago

      there's definitely no brain function at that point. preserving bodies on a cellular level isn't the same as bringing the dead to life.

      but yeah animal testing in general can be pretty grotesque.

  • Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    This sounds like it could be useful for keeping organs alive for transplants or somethiing like that. That's nice.

    But it sounds like what it did was restart individual organs in young and healthy pigs that they had killed. That does not immortality make.

    • fox [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      That's about the gist of it. It postpones cell death, which is super useful for moving transplants to where they're needed.

      • 69copsinatrenchcoat [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        i mean, it would be a good thing to carry with you if you're about to do a violence. maybe for medics and firefighters to carry?

  • Sphere [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Can I get a sample of this stuff? For...reasons? Sweet, thanks!

    :lenin-sleeping: WAKE UP LENIN, WE NEED YOU!

  • TheOwlReturns [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    I am sure that this is presented out of context, maybe the pigs were placed into suspended animation before being revived? Very sus

  • TheModerateTankie [any]
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    2 years ago

    Can't wait for this to be used to keep Kissinger alive for another century.

  • hypercube [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiments_in_the_Revival_of_Organisms soviets were doing this kinda stuff waaay back when, formed the basis for a lot of modern heart surgery stuff. still fucked that they can do it with a serum though