Xref: utzoo sci.med:14118 sci.bio:2601 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!bywater!scifi!njs From: njs@scifi.UUCP (Nicholas J. Simicich) Newsgroups: sci.med,sci.bio Subject: Re: Breathing liquid? Message-ID: <1018@scifi.UUCP> Date: 21 Dec 89 02:51:41 GMT References: <25196@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: njs@scifi.UUCP (Nicholas J. Simicich) Organization: Nick Simicich, Peekskill, NY Lines: 12 In article <25196@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes: >I've seen pictures of this done with rats. I believe the liquid is a >fluorocarbon, with air or oxygen bubbled through it. Many or all of us have, in fact, seen pictures of this being done with a rat. The rat breathing liquid in the recent movie, "The Abyss", was an actual demonstration of this technique. (The humans were not breathing liquid, as I understand. that was an effect, with helmets filled with water.) -- Nick Simicich --- uunet!bywater!scifi!njs --- njs@ibm.com (Internet)