Interesting news item

[gulliver]

Spit, Don't swallow.

[baedar]

Oh noes I commented on last years crud. My apologies. Great news posts, all.

[eamon angelface]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaruherald/4064691a6571.html

Damn right.

Fucking alarmist pricks.

One. Big. Marketing. Scam.

[smash]

Yankee's Wang hit hard by Rangers


Are they inspecting the damage?

[AngelBaby]

ZOMG SON OF SHARKGOD

[Seriously]

Medical studies show:


Basically it may be that people can't come back after being oxygen deprived for over a few minutes because your body is fighting cancer.


Or,

Our mitrochondria are taking the oppurtunity to turn on us when we're weakened.


I never could believe the simply accepted captivity.




Once they ruled the world. They remember.



EDIT:

On an unrelated note, how intimidating would it be to meet the director of Resuscitation Science.

These guys were looking into playing God before geneticists and clichès.

[AngelBaby]

That is a very interesting news item, indeed.


This one is good pretty much for the title alone.

[exelis]

Our mitrochondria are taking the oppurtunity to turn on us when we're weakened.


I never could believe the simply accepted captivity.

Nerd.

...Then again, I know what you're talking about.

[AngelBaby]

Our mitrochondria are taking the oppurtunity to turn on us when we're weakened.


I never could believe the simply accepted captivity.

Nerd.

...Then again, I know what you're talking about.

Me too.

[Seriously]

Swanky diet pill or new and interesting way of committing suicide?



One pill is likened to a "nice plate of pasta".



Two pills is two "nice plate(s) of pasta", then?



Three is...?

Four.





How long until all the Alka-Seltzered seagulls get their bloody revenge?

[exelis]

Seems to me you'd have to drink a shitload of water to have that sort of effect. The idea is that it just makes the fullness you'd get from drinking a couple glasses of water stick around for longer. Knowing the properties of similar gels, I doubt that it expands to much more than the volume that the liquid would take up in the first place.

Sure, it could possibly cause problems, but I think you'd have to be willing to drink water to the point of severe discomfort before there was a risk.

Oh, and I'd try it. Sounds especially useful for curing the late-night munchies.

[smash]

It said 1000 times it's size.

It begs questions- what happens to the 'pill' does it shrink to expand again later. Does it dissolve? Will particulates of it travel through the body causing damage? What happens if you swallow down the wrong tube.

[exelis]

It said 1000 times it's size.

It begs questions- what happens to the 'pill' does it shrink to expand again later. Does it dissolve? Will particulates of it travel through the body causing damage? What happens if you swallow down the wrong tube.

1000 times the size of the original pill. If you're drinking 999 times it's volume in water, that isn't too surprising.

...and it indicated that the gel broke down and was excreted.

(edit: cellulose is the material that the cell walls of plants are made of, so it's not like it isn't something that we eat every day. Once the weak bonds that create the gel are broken, it should just become an undigestible material that ya poop out.)

[eamon angelface]

I get the feeling all this will do is make fat people even fatter.

That's the traditional medical solution to anything: fix the symptom rather than the actual problem.

What they need is a self control pill.

Plus I wonder what happens when that's mixed with alcohol (specifically beer)? You get a carbonated gelatin blob in your gut? That sounds fun. Now we'll have super fat super gaseous people rolling around.

Bravo Italy.

[Seriously]

Problems with plastics not going away ever.