Liquid Breathing: Could A Human Breathe In Oxygen-Rich Fluids?
Liquid Breathing: Could A Human Breathe In Oxygen-Rich Fluids?
admin 2024/02/28 02:17It's a lot more possible than you might think.
Breathing liquids is generally a bad idea. In fact, few ideas could be worse for anybody who enjoys breathing. But there is a concept – which has been tested on animals and humans – that we should be able to breathe in certain liquids that are rich in oxygen.
It sounds like the stuff of sci-fi, largely because it is, appearing in a whole host of works from The Abyss to The Dark Forest, the origins of the Dark Forest hypothesis. But partial liquid ventilation is used clinically, providing oxygen to patients during mechanical ventilation.
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Breathing liquids is generally a bad idea. In fact, few ideas could be worse for anybody who enjoys breathing. But there is a concept – which has been tested on animals and humans – that we should be able to breathe in certain liquids that are rich in oxygen.
It sounds like the stuff of sci-fi, largely because it is, appearing in a whole host of works from The Abyss to The Dark Forest, the origins of the Dark Forest hypothesis. But partial liquid ventilation is used clinically, providing oxygen to patients during mechanical ventilation.
Learn more:
