Qualifications: PhD candidate in Toxicology.

You are correct that lungs fill with air because of muscles: the diaphraigm muscle moves down. The pleural sac around the lungs has a fluid inside and the surface tension of the fluid causes the very thin-walled lungs to cling to the pleural sac. The pleural sac is connected to the diaphraigm, so that when the diaphraigm moves down the pleural sac comes with it. Because the lungs cling to the pleural sac, the lungs expand too. Of course, moving from a crumpled up sac to a fully expanded sac opens up space, so air from the outside naturally flows in to fill the space. When the diaphraigm relaxes, you exhale.

However, that does not mean that pushing air in from the outside (rather than pulling it in from the inside) cannot inflate the lungs. It can. If you isolate the respiratory tract from a rodent, you can actually pull the trachea around the end of a syringe and use the plunger to push in air. The lungs will inflate just like they do in this video. Similarly, physicians somtimes perform alveolar lavage to make diagnoses based on the lavage fluid which they aspirate back out. This can also have the effect of inflating the lungs from the outside. All you need is a pressure differential, and that can be achieved in many ways.

Qualifications: PhD candidate in Toxicology.

Whether or not keeping the head alive in this video is real, I can’t say. But I’m certain the other organs are quite real. Also, it could be noted that JBS Haldane was a very well respected biologist and very famous. I don’t know if it is actually him in this video, but it does look like him.

Qualifications: PhD candidate in Toxicology.

Now, being given dominion over the animals is better than being an animal. Dogs = smarter than rats, rats = smarter than cockroaches. Dogs = cute and cuddly. Rats = not really cute, and not really cuddly. Cockroaches = “eww, you’re cuddling a bug that’s pooping on your face”. In many parts of the world, cockroaches = food, but also rats and dogs = food.

Who’s to choose whether dogs are better than rats? I’ll step up. I choose. Dogs are better than rats. Rats have less “right” to live than dogs. Satisfied? I am. Now let’s go out for Chinese food. No, not like the Japanese had Chinese food during the invasion of Nanking… I mean like “dogs”.

P.S. We just had to put our 15 y.o. dog down. It was sad. I cried. I would put a rabid dog down. I would cry if I had to put a murderer down, too. But I would do it. Not necessarily because his/her rights are “less”, but because mine and everybody else’s are “more”.

Can we get back to hacking things?

1. the dogs hed moves updown left and right which could not be done with a severed hed

2 have u ever tried to swallow with your mouth open, its hard to do now try it with no organs and a huge whole in the bottom of your head it would cause tremendous pain and musle contractions

3. in order to get it working they would need a constan supply of none reproducing body fluids
to keep the body from going into shock

4 the time it would take to get this set up would leave the dog brain damaged and in most cases dead (if u lose oxygen for 5 min to your brain it causes irreversible damage).

5. if this was done in 1940 then wth happened over the past 70 years shouldnt we be able to create more useful body part replacements or do a “head transplant ” on a person wo has cancer using a “body donation” if this actually happened in 1940 than we would live forever today which we dont

6. if it was authentic they would have showed the device hooked up and more camera angles

(note: I attempted to phrase this in the most polite manner that I know of.)

Lungs work not by inflating and deflating themselves but by using a vacuum in the chest cavity. When breathing in you rib cage will expand (using its muscles) creating a vacuum in your sealed chest cavity. This will cause your lungs to expand as the atmospheric air pressure will be greater than your lungs.

When breathing out your intercostal muscles (I think that’s how you spell it) between the ribs contract creating greater pressure in the cavity and expelling the air.

This is why people struggle to breathe when they get a puncture wound to the chest cavity. In first aid training that covers this area you are told to seal any puncture wounds like this to ensure this process can take place.

So to see lungs magically inflate and deflate in the video doesn’t make any sense at all. There is no muscle in the lungs themselves so they must be being inflated from external pressure rather than on their own.

Possibly one of those thigns i wish i could un-see but i do appreciate what that sort of thing was working towards!

Gabriel: “Hey look, I connected the AVR to the slave girl!”
Kabbal: “Wow, lets make her sacrifice her sister on the altar! It is time anyway.”
Gabriel: “Do you think she will be smarter if we switch to Linux?”
Kabbal: “NOO, dumb girls are sexy!”
Dark Priest: “Stop that! I told you we have to finish the H1N1 project!, you know those are orders from above!”