The Amazing Human Popsicle

[Cello Man]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061220/ap_on_fe_st/japan_hibernating_man

This guy survived for over three weeks with no food or water after effectively going into a hibernating state. Apparently he doesn't have any permanent orgran or brain damage, which is even more amazing. This reminds me of the sci-fi "suspended animation" in Alien and 2001. It seems there's always something around the corner waiting to surprise us.

 

[supercorgi]

Frankly, I'm surprised that nothing came along in all that time and nibbled on him.

 

[Phil]

Kinda puts David Blane to shame, doesn't it?

 

[sophia8]

Frankly, I'm surprised that nothing came along in all that time and nibbled on him.

That's a thought. Why didn't he get eaten?
And the newspaper report I read said that he "sipped at a bottle of water" duting his ordeal, though it didn't give any more details.
At the moment, I simply don't believe the story as it stands - nobody goes three weeks without water and lives. Yet this bloke apparently still has functioning kidneys.

 

[JLam]

Kinda puts David Blane to shame, doesn't it?

And also David Blaine. BTW, who's David Blane?

 

[Crazycowbob]

Hmm, hard to say on this one, there's not a lot of info there, and YahooNews hasn't exactly been one of the most reliable sources in the world...

 

[Beady]

At the moment, I simply don't believe the story as it stands - nobody goes three weeks without water and lives. Yet this bloke apparently still has functioning kidneys.

Dunno 'bout that:

"Uchikoshi was treated for severe hypothermia, multiple organ failure and blood loss from his fall..." It certainly doesn't sound like he was unscathed.

It could just be a fluke. I understand, but don't know how correct it is, that Lance Armstrong has a highly unusual physiology. Variants do happen.

 

[Phil]

And also David Blaine. BTW, who's David Blane?

He's just a one-time street magician who went off his rocker. I understand his next stunt is to survive for four weeks on an Internet forum made up of nothing but pedants.