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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... LOL, I thought I was the only person who ever wondered that. Also, would you recognize your body over there and would you have time to be horrified? |
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"Owamanga" wrote in message ... On 30 Mar 2005 14:05:58 -0800, "G.T." wrote: Owamanga (not-this-bit) wrote: An interesting discussion, may be of interest to anyone who ever photographs medium to large groups of 5 year-olds: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...56673&page=0&v iew=collapsed&sb=9&o=14&fpart=1&vc=1 Wow, I rarely complain about something wasting my time on Usenet but that tops all timewasters. Single most pathetic discussion I've ever read. In my entire life, Internet or not. Greg But did you read it *all* ? The shame is, even after 50 pages of the stuff, there is *no* good answer. g I read about 5 pages looking for something funny or interesting, and fell asleep. I was at work, too, not good. If I need to fall asleep tonight I'll go back to it. Greg |
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Alan Browne wrote:
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... horrible! freeze as you drink it. Cheers, Alan. -- -- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: there's no such thing as a FreeLunch. |
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"Toni" wrote in message oups.com... 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... LOL, I thought I was the only person who ever wondered that. Also, would you recognize your body over there and would you have time to be horrified? I'm not alone after all!! I also wonder whether if the blade stopped immediately...keeping your severed head pressed against the blade after detachment...whether the pressing blade might briefly curb the bleeding enough to maintain a bit more blood pressure...which might allow a few full seconds of awareness. II get the death penalty someday I think I'll ask for this, and then try and devise a way to signal someone like you with my eyes one way or the other... Deal? |
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MarkČ wrote:
I also wonder whether if the blade stopped immediately...keeping your severed head pressed against the blade after detachment...whether the pressing blade might briefly curb the bleeding enough to maintain a bit more blood pressure...which might allow a few full seconds of awareness. I'm sure the massive shock straight to your central nervous system (through the spinal cord) would zap you unconscious straight away. That's not to say dead, just unconscious, like the karate chop to the neck thing. -- Ken Tough |
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MarkČ wrote:
"Toni" wrote in message oups.com... 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... LOL, I thought I was the only person who ever wondered that. Also, would you recognize your body over there and would you have time to be horrified? I'm not alone after all!! I also wonder whether if the blade stopped immediately...keeping your severed head pressed against the blade after detachment...whether the pressing blade might briefly curb the bleeding enough to maintain a bit more blood pressure...which might allow a few full seconds of awareness. II get the death penalty someday I think I'll ask for this, and then try and devise a way to signal someone like you with my eyes one way or the other... Deal? I have read that some beheaded people were conscious for up to 8 seconds. NOt sure how this was determined. Don't want to think much about it. -- Ron Hunter |
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MarkČ wrote:
"Toni" wrote in message oups.com... 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... LOL, I thought I was the only person who ever wondered that. Also, would you recognize your body over there and would you have time to be horrified? I'm not alone after all!! I also wonder whether if the blade stopped immediately...keeping your severed head pressed against the blade after detachment...whether the pressing blade might briefly curb the bleeding enough to maintain a bit more blood pressure...which might allow a few full seconds of awareness. II get the death penalty someday I think I'll ask for this, and then try and devise a way to signal someone like you with my eyes one way or the other... Deal? So, you were saying about IQ...? -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mike Kohary mike at kohary dot com http://www.kohary.com Karma Photography: http://www.karmaphotography.com Seahawks Historical Database: http://www.kohary.com/seahawks ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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Ken Tough writes:
I'm sure the massive shock straight to your central nervous system (through the spinal cord) would zap you unconscious straight away. That's not to say dead, just unconscious, like the karate chop to the neck thing. People executed by the guillotine remain conscious for a few seconds. A French doctor once did some observations of executions to determine this. But a constant and generous blood supply to the brain is necessary to allow this, and so the period of remaining consciousness (if any) is extremely brief. -- Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly. |
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Ron Hunter writes:
I have read that some beheaded people were conscious for up to 8 seconds. NOt sure how this was determined. Don't want to think much about it. In the case of guillotine executions, they simply observed the person's head. He couldn't speak, but he turn his eyes to look at someone speaking to him. -- Transpose hotmail and mxsmanic in my e-mail address to reach me directly. |
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