Photographing children

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?

"Owamanga" wrote in message
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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

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.

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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?

Mark² 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

Mark² 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

In article , says...
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


Considering the blood pressure drop from standing up to fast on a hot day can
make you pass out, I dont suppose you could stand the pressure drop and
maintain wakefullnes


--
Larry Lynch
Mystic, Ct.

Mark² 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...?

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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.

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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.

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