How long could a head be kept alive

skeptigirl said:
That's only blond males, gayak. ;)
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:D :D :D

So there are three male construction workers, a blonde, a brunette and a redhead, discussing their wives. The brunette says, "My wife is so dumb that she went shopping, bought 150 pounds of meat and we don't even have a freezer to store it!"

The redhead says, "That's nothing. My wife is so dumb, she went out and bought a $15,000 car and she doesn't even have a driver's licence!"

The blonde says, "My wife is even dumber! She is taking a trip to Greece. She packed a whole case of condoms and she doesn't even have a penis!"
 
skeptigirl said:
Wanna buy a bridge?


This is utter BS. Is Pravda like the Nat'l Enq.?

It's called physiology, elastic blood vessels do not pump blood.
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Pravda is THE Russian woo publication. They will quite often publish the latest proof for the existance of god, the way to cure cancer with (Orthodox) holy water and whatever Russian pseudoscience pops up.

Go figure, Pravda means truth in Russian.
 
Raja;2205486 Of course said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Belyaev

This guy turned the topic into fiction. The book was v. popular around the time I was born. It was considered so scary that ladies would refrain from talking about it in front of Mom while she was pregnant with me. I later read the tale, it had three severed heads (two men and a lady) living happily. The lady even got a new sexy body.

The Amphibian Man by Belyaev was also cool.
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The idea of beheadings/decapitations are just way too creepy for me. I have a high curiosity factor and would--for a second--consider watching one of the videos, however, I know that something like that would mess me up real bad, and I could never bring myself to do it. I'm reminded of the hospital worker here in Houston who was a witness to a decapitaton via elevator malfunction (discussed briefly in another thread). Not only that, she rode in the elevator with the guy's head for several floors before being rescued. I wonder how many years it will take for her to recover...if ever.
 
trip.i said:
The idea of beheadings/decapitations are just way too creepy for me. I have a high curiosity factor and would--for a second--consider watching one of the videos, however, I know that something like that would mess me up real bad, and I could never bring myself to do it. I'm reminded of the hospital worker here in Houston who was a witness to a decapitaton via elevator malfunction (discussed briefly in another thread). Not only that, she rode in the elevator with the guy's head for several floors before being rescued. I wonder how many years it will take for her to recover...if ever.
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Well...the actual main theme of this thread is not beheading but rather the question as to whether life could be sustained by artificial means if one's body had reached a point where it could no longer do so.

It's more theoretical, but presumably this is not something that would be done as punishment but rather because one did not want to die, and had severe injuries or multiple organ problems
 
qayak said:
:D :D :D

So there are three male construction workers, a blonde, a brunette and a redhead, discussing their wives. The brunette says, "My wife is so dumb that she went shopping, bought 150 pounds of meat and we don't even have a freezer to store it!"

The redhead says, "That's nothing. My wife is so dumb, she went out and bought a $15,000 car and she doesn't even have a driver's licence!"

The blonde says, "My wife is even dumber! She is taking a trip to Greece. She packed a whole case of condoms and she doesn't even have a penis!"
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Males get different hair color names, dark hair is called 'brunet' and pale hair is called 'blond'. The e on the end is a female dimunitive.
 
DRBUZZ0 said:
I'm not sure that that means that a head could not be transplanted or even removed to be kept alive artificially (although other hurdles certainly apply). It's certainly possible that the brain can be revived after a very short loss of blood supply.

For example, a heart attack victim might loose circulation for a short time before being defibrillated or given CPR.

A fighter pilot might loose the majority of the blood in his head during a very high-G turn (over 9 g's is virtually impossible to remain conscious through for even the best and if it lasts more than a short time can cause serious injury or death). However, he can still regain consciousness after the G forces drop and normal circulation resumes.
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What is it then, exactly, about being bonked on the head that can cause INSTANT unconsciousness? In such a situation, the blood flow has not been interupted (or has it in some round about way?).
 
trip.i said:
The idea of beheadings/decapitations are just way too creepy for me. I have a high curiosity factor and would--for a second--consider watching one of the videos, however, I know that something like that would mess me up real bad, and I could never bring myself to do it. I'm reminded of the hospital worker here in Houston who was a witness to a decapitaton via elevator malfunction (discussed briefly in another thread). Not only that, she rode in the elevator with the guy's head for several floors before being rescued. I wonder how many years it will take for her to recover...if ever.
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Now tell me the truth: You KNOW you have this morbid curiousity as to what a headless neck would look like if you were to look straight down at it from an aerial view.
 
Dogdoctor said:
I doubt we could keep a brain alive for long with current technology. Forgeting that , an aspect that you may not know is that some of the nerves that control the larynx originate in the chest so will be cut when the head is removed rendering the head unable to speak under any circumstances.
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The recurrent laryngeal nerve follows the vagus down into the thorax before turning around and heading back "north."

HOwever, you can easily repair a broken RLN. You could fuse the 2 parts together and it will function effectively.
 
Iamme said:
What is it then, exactly, about being bonked on the head that can cause INSTANT unconsciousness? In such a situation, the blood flow has not been interupted (or has it in some round about way?).
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There are two ways to knock somebody out.

The safe way (when I say safe, I mean, reasonably likely not to kill some one, not fluffy-kitten safe) is the "sleeper" choke, stopping blood flow to the brain. Unconsciousness follows in seconds. You can also punch someone in the artery; the interruption of flow causes the vessel to open up to its max, trying to compensate, which lowers blood pressure and causes unconsciousness within a heartbeat.

The unsafe way is blunt trauma to the head. The shock interrupts the electrical/chemical interactions, which cause unconsciousness instantly. This is dangerous because a blow strong enough to do this is also likely to crack the skull, or even just cause injury by jarring the brain. It's just big cauliflower floating in some juice, after all. Knock it around enough and it will turn to mush.
 
Without having the rest of the body, I'd rather just be dead.
 
Polaris said:
Without having the rest of the body, I'd rather just be dead.
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You mean like you wouldn't want to have just your head laying on the ground, with you being alive (in your head)? It be fun to be in this state for a little while, so you could simply blow peoples minds. You could wolf-whistle at chicks walking by. You could also wait for someone to try to dig under your head to see that your body is not buried beneath the sand, as some sort of gag. And then when they discover there IS no body...to watch them faint dead away would be priceless. For them, it be like they were really in some Chucky movie.
 
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Yahzi said:
The unsafe way is blunt trauma to the head. The shock interrupts the electrical/chemical interactions, which cause unconsciousness instantly. This is dangerous because a blow strong enough to do this is also likely to crack the skull, or even just cause injury by jarring the brain. It's just big cauliflower floating in some juice, after all. Knock it around enough and it will turn to mush.
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Sounds like making scrambled eggs. That really would happen eh? Like all your brains would turn to jello? You hear every so often, in the news where like some boyfriend shook some girlfriends baby to death, for crying. I never thought about the brains inside turning into some slurry...like the making of a shake/malt.
 
Iamme said:
You mean like you wouldn't want to have just your head laying on the ground, with you being alive (in your head)? It be fun to be in this state for a little while, so you could simply blow peoples minds. You could wolf-whistle at chicks walking by. You could also wait for someone to try to dig under your head to see that your body is not buried beneath the sand, as some sort of gag. And then when they discover there IS no body...to watch them faint dead away would be priceless. For them, it be like they were really in some Chucky movie.
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Well, ok I kinda can see how that would be fun.
 
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