Hydrogen Sulfide and You
Maybe some year, you'll sleep.
Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) has been found to slow the breathing rates of mice from 120 to 10 breaths a minute.
In other words, it seems to safely induce hibernation. Seems too. hmmm.
More studies are being done.
What if you could spend a two week vacation hibernating, then wake up unaddicted to tobacco.
Or to maybe wake up to a new, slender you?
Or how about waking up in a time where cars actually flew?
Or where artificial eyeballs existed,
Or where comunication appearal was required.
Hibernation would make it possible for us to travel into the future.
Wonder what the record is for human hibernation?
Although it is 20 years since Nasa abandoned work on induced hibernation as a way of helping astronauts to survive long space missions, research began again at the European Space Agency in 2004. Funding has flowed in the United States since October, when Mitsutaka Uchikoshi, 35, strayed from a Japanese office barbecue, fell down a snowy mountain and broke his hip.
He lapsed into a frozen coma, which lasted 24 days until his apparently lifeless body was found and revived in a Kobe hospital. He is now known in Japanese newspapers as the "Bear Man".
"We don't know how he survived so long, but his body was preserved in ice for nearly a month and now he is back to normal," a Kobe doctor said. "If we can understand why, we can save many lives in the future."

Monday, August 27, 2007 6:51:07 PM, From: jim, To: Science