MarkČ wrote:
-Although I must admit to pondering strange scenarios... Like wondering how
many milliseconds of vision and cognitive awareness you could maintain as
your head falls after having it lopped off by a gillotine...
sp Guillotine.
You too, eh? Wanna flip for it? In various fictional ponderings the
lopped off head can see for and hear a brief moment and in others for
several seconds. Someday, in the name of science, they'll wire up some
poor animal and answer the question... in one recently read fictional
book the coroner state that the death would be instantaneous due to
aeroembolism.
One of the more clever 'intant death' scenes I read was last night: A
fellow gets tossed out in the cold of winter night at a processing plant
in Siberia. The temperature is -55°C. After he stumbles around for a
few minutes, getting very cold, he finds his vodka bottle that had
fallen onto the hardpack. He decides the booze will 'warm' him up. Of
course it has rapidly chilled to far below freezing...
Cheers,
Alan.
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