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[radioheadrule83]

The future is almost here. Oh yeah

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=23290

"We are, in essence, temporarily converting mice from warm-blooded to cold-blooded creatures, which is exactly the same thing that happens naturally when mammals hibernate," said lead investigator Mark Roth, Ph.D., whose findings will be published in the April 22 issue of Science.

"We think this may be a latent ability that all mammals have - potentially even humans - and we're just harnessing it and turning it on and off, inducing a state of hibernation on demand," said Roth, a member of Fred Hutchinson's Basic Sciences Division.

During a hibernation-like state, cellular activity slows to a near standstill, which reduces dramatically an organism's need for oxygen. If such temporary metabolic inactivity - and subsequent freedom from oxygen dependence - could be replicated in humans, it could help buy time for critically ill patients on organ-transplant lists and in operating rooms, ERs and battlefields, Roth said.

Throw in a few synthetic dreams and we got vanilla sky or total recall...
triple breasted women and midgets here I come!

 

[galeninjapan]

So in 2036 humans will be able to be even less productive! Yes!! YES!!

 

[WedgeX]

This would make long space trips either easier...or more prone to corrupt computers.

 

[Manabanana]

So we're just gonna have a giant warehouse full of lifeless waiting list patients...? Wow, that's not insanely creepy at all.

 

[Cloudy]

wrong thread...

 

[ConfusingJazz]

This would make long space trips either easier...or more prone to corrupt computers.

What do you mean, Dave? It can only be attributable to human error.