r/ScienceUncensored • u/Zephir-AWT • 5d ago

Butt-breathing science goes from IgNobel Prize infamy to human reality

https://newatlas.com/disease/butt-breathing-ignobel-prize/
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u/Last_VCR 5d ago

this is going to change the world of free diving

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u/Zephir-AWT 5d ago edited 5d ago

this is going to change the world of free diving

...unless you don't consider pipe in the butt as a act of freedom... It could be a mind blowing experience for many progressives.

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u/strife4454 5d ago

šŸ˜‚ Thank you for that šŸ»

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u/Outside-Ad2660 5d ago

Anyone else read the titleā€¦ read the commentsā€¦ read the titleā€¦read the commentsā€¦ and then just go back to doomscrolling wondering ā€˜wtf was I just readingā€™? šŸ™‹šŸ¾ā€ā™‚ļø

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u/Zephir-AWT 5d ago

ā€˜wtf was I just readingā€™?

It's related to the famous Abyss rat scene. Apparently breathing freon isn't good for your lungs and blood system, so that scientists are trying the other ... orifices..

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u/retnemmoc 5d ago

Japanese and US researchers, led by the Cincinnati Children's Hospital...

Oh dear. Was Dr. Epstein presiding?

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u/moistiest_dangles 4d ago

It is being researched in cased where intubation is dangerous. Having an additional method for getting oxygen into a human will save lives as long as we can get over our moral qualms. Perhaps if we can't, should we also forgo colonoscopies?

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u/NeilDeWheel 3d ago

I went to the London Science Museum a few weeks ago. There I saw a set of 18th century bellows that were used to inflate a drowning victimā€™s rectum with tobacco smoke. It was believed the tobacco smoke would bring the drowning victim round before it was realised it was hokum. I believe this is where the phrase ā€˜to blow smoke up ones arseā€™ comes from. Whoā€™d have known that 300 years later weā€™d once again be trying to pump gasses up someoneā€™s arse to save their life.