A man-made, pure-white compound called Oxycyte carries oxygen 50 times as effectively as our own blood.
HELLO SUB 3:30!
pretty amazing stuff. when i read articles like this, i marvel at the medical world and the people who dedicate their lives to better humanity. i have a friend in medical school and several times i've mentioned to her that i think its a very honorable thing she is doing.
I thought that'd already been done?
Sex me wrote:
I thought that'd already been done?
You're right: 1979, Alien
Malmo...that is disturbing but what is that?
againtocarthage wrote:
Malmo...that is disturbing but what is that?
That is the android Ash from the movie Alien played by none other than the great Ian Holm (you may know him as Bilbo Baggins)
Alien:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0078748/Holm:
http://imdb.com/name/nm0000453/againtocarthage wrote:
Malmo...that is disturbing but what is that?
Science Officer Ash (Ian Holm), a biomechannoid on the freighter Nostromo, from the movie 'Alien'.
Alien scared the piss out of me. Funny thing is you only saw the alien for about 30 seconds in the entire movie. It was all shadows and your imagination. Ridley Scott is a genious.
the synthetic blood may not be that bad, apparently you need pure oxygen to get maximum use out of it. the costs in having flu like symptons versus running a few seconds faster is probably cancelled out. unless its an 800, then maybe.
I thought synthetic blood has been around - and used for cheating in endurance sports - for some time. You don't think all the best performances in the world are achieved through genetic potential and hard work alone, do you?
Maybe this Oxycyte goop is the best yet.
So I haven't read the article, nor do I have time to know, but would the muscle cells even be able to carry out cellular respiration 50x faster/more effeciently as well? Just because the oxygen is reaching the muscle cells in greater amounts doesn't mean the muscle cells will be able to handle it all that quickly as well. Obviously there would be SOME increase in cellular respiration due to this Oxycyte product, but I think the 50x is misleading when looking at the whole picture.
Assuming that's true (which it may not be, someone correct me on it if I'm wrong), then what happens to all that extra oxygen that the Oxycyte delivers that can't be used in cellular respiration immediately? I don't think it can go back to the heart, so would it just get delivered to the muscle cells (and others throughout the body as well I suppose) and just build up there? How would the body get rid of all the excess oxygen, if it even could? And if it can't, what are the consequences of having too much oxygen buildup in your cells?
Please, could someone who knows this stuff better than I answer some of these questions or correct what I said?
asdfasdf wrote:
pretty amazing stuff. when i read articles like this, i marvel at the medical world and the people who dedicate their lives to better humanity. i have a friend in medical school and several times i've mentioned to her that i think its a very honorable thing she is doing.
The more the medical world makes advances, the more it can be used for unintended consequnces, like elite athletes making money by breaking world records.
So, what is a PED? If this message board was around fifty years ago, would we have been railing against the use of vitamin C or B12 shots? One wonders what the meidcal community will come up in the coming years and whether EPO or dynEPO (the next generation of EPO) will be considered hom-hum, like B12 shots are today?
actually cellular respiration would work amazingly faster if 50 times more o2 was delivered. the problems are:
A) free radicals would really screw you up, I mean CHAI tea and all the antioxidants in the world wouldn't save your ass.
B) you would feel so woozy and have some pretty nasty flu like symptoms
C) no one really knows what else, but theres always the potential you could get really, REALLY screwed up
the thing is, yeah you would be able to run at your 400 PR for like a mile with this crap, I don't doubt that. The problem is your muscles would probably rip apart after 2-3 minutes of that intensity. top 800m runners usually need a 3-5 day recovery after a HARD, WORLD CLASS 800m effort lasting a little over 1:30. Imagine what 3 minutes would do to your legs. Plus you would have to train at that intensity to be able to run it in a race, or run to the best of your doped up cheating-ass ability. In the end, you would have a few Stellar races, lasting a few steller years and then after 3-4 years and maybe 10 3:30 mile races your ass would either be dead, or comatosed, or paralyzed. now is that really worth it? think about it, 10 3:30 miles for sex. I don't think I'd give sex up for 1000 3:30 miles, sorry.
its just crazy. thats allz i gots to say.