No foods no drinks for 8 months, is this possible?

Discussion in 'Eastern Philosophy' started by kira, Jul 27, 2010.

  1. Dywyddyr Penguinaciously duckalicious. Valued Senior Member

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    Well maybe not sexier per se but a better person.

    So long as you're wearing Nikes while doing so.


    Heck, just because people build them or use them doesn't mean they have any clue about naming them... Although there were variants: Nike Ajax, Nike Zeus and Nike Ajax. Hermaphroditic (oops! mythology again) missiles?
    Our (supposedly) glorious British government assigned the named Chevaline to our national update of Polaris, under the impression that "A Chevaline" was some sort of high-altitude-living mountain goat (although I still fail to see the connection between goats and nuclear warheads*), imagine the joy (typically restrained Brit joy, naturellement) of the press when they pointed out that the word is actually an adjective: it's the French equivalent of equine.

    Discordianism/ hackerdom is sufficiently confident to acknowledge the debt.

    * Unless they'd pre-empted Terry Pratchett of course, with nukes you don't just get creamed, you get cheesed.
     
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  3. superstring01 Moderator

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    Before I saw this reply, I was thinking, "Close enough. . . " and then. . . damnation! You said it.

    Religious freakery is a cottage industry in the sub-continent (well, it's sort of a cottage industry everywhere, but you get the point).

    ~String
     
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  5. Orleander OH JOY!!!! Valued Senior Member

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    really??? You seriously wonder if its possible for a child to go 8 mths without eating and drinking??? :bugeye:
     
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  7. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    Duh? DUH??? The film provides solid evidence that the kid was not actually there full-time! How much more evidence do you need to dismiss this as bullshit?
    Once again, we have solid evidence, this time evidence that the observation wasn't long enough. The meaning of "average," for those of you who slept through your statistics class, is that some people will be above average and some will be below. Rather a lot, actually, because few people are precisely average. So perhaps this kid is above average. That's no miracle. Keep the camera on him for four weeks--several days beyond the world record--and see if he's still alive then!
    "Where he was sitting" during the daylight hours only!
    Under these conditions, a person would indeed absorb some water from the atmosphere, but it would be a trivial quantity, not enough to sustain life. We're not plants, we can't absorb minerals from the soil. We don't absorb vitamin D from the sun; we absorb the ultraviolet component of the solar radiation, and that triggers a photochemical process in which our own body synthesizes the vitamin D out of chemicals that are already there.

    In any case, even if a person had a way to acquire an adequate supply of water, vitamins and minerals, he would still die of sheer starvation once his body metabolized all of its fat reserves. A pound of fat (454gm) would provide enough calories to keep a young boy (I have no idea how big he is) alive for a few days if he is completely inactive. So he would need to be roughly 50 pounds overweight (22kg) in order to survive for eight months by burning his body fat. If he had a source of water, vitamins and minerals!
    That is not how it works. They are not "absorbing energy" from their surroundings. They are using the laws of physics (often knowingly) and taking advantage of the structural properties of the materials by focusing the power of their strike appropriately.
    We've all seen that. But there's nothing supernatural about it. It's just physics.
    We can swim underwater, but not like a fish. Its more like a dolphin: we don't have gills like fish so we have to come to the surface to breathe. And we don't fly in the air like birds. We build machines that glide like birds, but that's not flying. And we build machines that fly, but they don't fly anything at all like the way birds fly. Some of them use rotating airfoils for propulsion, others use jet engines. We don't detect things at night like a bat. Bats use sonar; we generally use infrared photography.
    Some science fiction is written by scientists and is plausible, merely awaiting the future progress of technology to catch up with our imagination. But much (perhaps most) of it is just as much bullshit as religion. The difference is that we don't expect people to believe it and we certainly don't go around killing them and overthrowing their sovereign governments for that skepticism.
     
  8. Cifo Day destroys the night, Registered Senior Member

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    Because the colon absorbs water from its contents, it seems obvious that a modified douching apparatus could introduce life-sustaining water into his body through an obscure orifice

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    wink! under his tree (which could also contain the douche bag), thus producing the illusion of not drinking. Further intubation :bugeye: into his small intestine, which absorbs nutrients, could allow the introduction of a glucose solution thus producing the complete illusion of not eating or drinking.
     
  9. Bert Registered Member

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    if it were possible, I reckon it'll be cool as!!!

    ...


    but sadly it's not

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  10. lightgigantic Banned Banned

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    so IOW with a bit of detailed knowledge, one can undertsand by what means we are swimming under water like a fish (or dolphin - although we can outperform a dolphin in terms of how long we have to wait to come up for a breath), fly like a bird etc.
    space shuttle technology probably didn't sound too plausible during medieval europe ... but that aside, do you want to go a step further and say its not possible for science to develop some means to place humans in a stasis like state similar to certain aquatics, etc?

    instead the military is the number one patron of the sciences (perhaps only seconded by the pharmaceutical industry)

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  11. wynn ˙ Valued Senior Member

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    Here I sit in my little room, I, Brigge, 28 years of
    age and known to no one. I sit here and am nothing. Nevertheless, this
    nothing, five flights up on a grey Paris afternoon, begins to think
    and it has these thoughts:

    Is it possible, it thinks, that one still hasn't seen or recognised
    or said anything that's real and important? Is it possible that there
    have been thousands of years in which to look, to reflect, and to
    record, and that these thousands of years have been allowed to go by
    like a school break when one eats a sandwich and an apple?

    Yes, it's possible.

    Is it possible that despite inventions and advances, despite culture,
    religion and worldly wisdom one has remained on the surface of life?
    Is it possible that even this surface, which at any rate might, after
    all, have been something, has been covered over with unbelievably
    boring material so that it has the look of drawing-room furniture in
    the summer holidays?

    Yes, it's possible.

    Is it possible that the whole of world history has been misunderstood?
    Is it possible that the past is false because it's always its masses
    that have been spoken about as if one were talking of a convergence
    of many persons instead of talking about the one person they were
    gathered round because he was a stranger and was dying?

    Yes, it's possible.

    Is it possible that one believed one had to catch up on what had
    occurred before one was born? Is it possible that each and every
    person had to remember that he had been produced by all that had gone
    before and therefore knew it and would not let himself be persuaded by
    others who knew otherwise?

    Yes, it's possible.

    Is it possible that all these people have a totally accurate knowledge
    of what has never been? Is it possible that realities are as nothing
    to them; that their life is draining away, connected with nothing,
    like a clock in an empty room?

    Yes, it's possible.

    Is it possible that one can know nothing of the young girls who are
    nevertheless living? Is it possible that one says 'women', 'children',
    'boys' and not suspect for one moment (irrespective of their
    education) that for a long time these words had no plural but only
    countless singulars?

    Yes, it's possible.

    Is it possible that there are people who say 'God' and think it's
    something they have in common with everyone?--And take a couple of
    schoolboys: one of them buys a knife and the other buys an identical
    one on the same day. And after a week they compare the two knives and
    it turns out that they look only vaguely similar--so different have
    they become in different hands. (There you are, says the mother of
    one of them, if you will go and wear everything out straightaway .) --Ah
    then: is it possible to believe that one could have a God and not use
    him?

    Yes, it's possible.

    But if all this is possible and if even there's only a glimmer of
    possibility , then, for pity's sake, surely something needs to be
    done. The first person to come forward who has had these disquieting
    thoughts must begin to do what has always been missed; he could be
    just anyone and it doesn't matter in the least if he's not the most
    suitable person: there's simply no one else to do it. This young,
    insignificant foreigner, will have to sit himself down, five flights
    up and write day and night: yes, he will have to write; that's what it
    amounts to.
     
  12. Maika Registered Member

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    well isn't that what Jesus did? he went into a meditative state and transcended time and space, kinda like put himself in stasis. i'd like to do that. but if you fuck up you die of thirst.
     

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