Mouse breathing water

[Dimeinurear]

Humans actually have a system called the "Mammalian diving reflex" that occurs when we swim at depths of about 700 feet. Your lungs begin to flood with blood plasma to prevent you from imploding from the sheer pressure of the water around you.

This is most commonly seen in seals or (I think) dolphins, because they do this for food, but it has happened with humans. When you near the surface your lungs re-absorb the plasma and no harm is done.

[TheCentralServices]

@Dimeinurear Ach really, and why do whales not get the bends?

[Dimeinurear]

@TheCentralServices

I don't scuba dive, but I think it's because they're not actually breathing the water.. they're essentially just holding their breath. The bends occurs when (I think) nitrogen dissolves and collects around your joints, and as you resurface they explode or expand or something. I honestly have no clue, lol. It's probably just because they're only holding their breath or they have a circulatory system designed to deal with it.

[MrAngrybaldguy]

Those mice die from Pneumonia

[eothel]

LCL

[TheTurbinator]

The announcer needs to lay of the amphetamine!

[lifeisamazingcouk]

Oxford English Dictionary:

lamb n & v: 1. A young sheep. 2.the flesh of a lamb as food.

sheep n (plural same) Any ruminant mammal of the genus Ovis with a thick woolly coat, esp. kept in flocks for its wool or meat, and noted for its timidity.

I'm not engaging in this further, it's not even an argument, it's just that you've picked up a weird distinction that is incorrect. Goodbye.

[awesome9010]

mouse: ahh ahh ahh wait why am i not drowning oh well ill just swallow frag grenade

[awesome9010]

lol

[theraVen27]

It's a mouse not a mice people.

Also sheep are a group of lambs. One is just a lamb not "a sheep"

[lifeisamazingcouk]

@theraVen27 A lamb is a BABY sheep. A sheep is one sheep. The plural of sheep is also sheep. The same is true of a deer and many deer. The same is also true of fish and fish, although there is an alternative plural, which is fishes. If you're going to be a smartarse, get your facts straight first.

[theraVen27]

@lifeisamazingcouk

no sheep is actually the name used for a group of animals belonging to the genus ovis of the bovidea family (goat antelope subfamily)

"a sheep" is a moron not being able to speak correctly.

sheep is the lazy slang. so instead of saying Ovis Canadensis they say sheep.

i can debunk ur wiki bs garbage with real facts all day if you want.

[quosmo1]

@theraVen27 your an idiot

[theraVen27]

@quosmo1

yes being educated with corrects facts make people idiots..

[quosmo1]

@theraVen27 tell me again oh great one, what a lamb is. lol :)

[GENOCIDE2099]

this dude is so pumped up

[teamSUPERCOCK]

back to funny junk

[CasusUniversum]

Why is this man shouting!!!!

[csmybuttt]

The producers should have hired someone without a mental disability as narrator.

[Novaspes82]

@ortixx because it's effing exciting!

[BCBU2410124]

Yea but the mice died the day after

[SnipezZXReapa]

Did someone just wake up one day and say "i'm going to see if mice can breath underwater"?

[ortixx]

why is he yelling?

[pogmog]

This guy's voice sounds as if he's trying not to sound rushed but he really needs to go to the toilet.

[sarahmintt]

you're saying.. i could be a.....MERMAID? :'D

[OmegaZero111]

See you guys back on 9gag.

[switzerland]

now back to 9gag

[lukiwaltl]

there is something calles perfluorcarbon..google it

[whickedsy]

Did someone hire the narrator from the shopping channel?

[purdoy25]

Atlantis have already unlocked that technology.

[reuben0110]

I bet that mouse doesn't what the fuck's going on

[Acidicheartburn]

This is not water that the mouse is breathing. It is breathing a liquid form of the chemical "perfluorohexane" which has a unique ability to trap air molecules inside of it and allow for respiration. Look it up on google or wikipedia.

[Darkrider6970]

@Acidicheartburn Basically, it's a fluid with a high solubility for oxygen to the point that the oxygen content within the fluid can reach the level of oxygen content in the air. Still, this type of system would be virtually impossible for humans to breath in because of the huge amount of work needed to breath in and out the water and the fairly low oxygen extraction co-efficient.

[772fortpierce]

the about the mouse literally makes me laugh so hard i cry every time i watch this from the beginning...now i know wat 2 watch wen im in a bad mood

[PewPewStudios]

So are you technically drinking a ton of water too? It's possible for people to die of drinking too much water.

[TheDurhampower1]

@PewPewStudios yes

[ChrisVGuitarist]

@PewPewStudios it called water intoxication

[OusanYmon]

@PewPewStudios Nope. You're literally breathing the oxygenated liquid. It's not going into your stomach, but into your lungs.

[MrSuperawsomeness]

@PewPewStudios No because your breathing the water in, absorbing the air and then breathing the water out. Your lungs arent the same thing as your stomach.

[joemiknor]

rapture, here we come.

[joemiknor]

is "mouses" as in "more than one" correct?

i thought it was "mice" all this time.

[kalloused]

@joemiknor both are correct

[shinenight]

All for the power of science, that mouse is a trooper

[andrewmueller23]

LCL for real?

[Gagamel234]

Poor mouse ):

[79jaygee]

Cruel...

Just fucking cruel!!!

[BaseAndAcid]

@79jaygee You fucking idiots if it wasn't for these precious mice we wouldn't have as useful drugs as we have today.

[79jaygee]

@BaseAndAcid the limitations of animal models of lung disease are due to the differences between lab animals and humans.The normal lung differs among species.Example the alveolar and airway architecture is different between mice and us.Mice have 8 generations of branching airways compared with 20 or more in humans.Mice have 6–8 branching airways compared to 20 or more in humans.In mice,terminal bronchioles empty into alveolar ducts and alveoli,in humans, bronchioles empty into alveolar ducts!

[79jaygee]

@BaseAndAcid someone who calls themselves "BaseAndAcid" is not in a position to lecture, its fucking cruel, 99.9% of animal testing is done so that called scientists can get a paper published!!!

[BaseAndAcid]

@79jaygee The video shows a compound of PFC that got proved by the FDA as blood substitutes in trauma incidents. It has been under research for decades and most of the biggest problems have been overcome now. You would NOT risk to try or do research on humans before getting some kind of validity.

As a medical student, I absolutely would not keep mice as pets to do my evil scientist works on, but in justified work. Medicine wouldn't be as this if it weren't for mice trials. You have to accept it

[blob23ful]

COOL



[Sevival]

THE MOUSE CAN SURVIVE UNHARMED FOR HOURS! COMPLETELY SUBMERGED!

chill dude take a joint and talk slowly

[Knoldespark]

The mouse died after a few hours, I saw that in another program.

[rocketgal]

yeah I remember this experiment video specifically (I was searching to see if it was anywhere online and it was!). I'm sure they've improved the idea by now... But that particular experiment was overhyped at the time.

[cattajk]

that doesn't look very natural to the mouse.

[rocketgal]

fyi, that mouse died days later because its lungs were destroyed.

[00the00virus00]

@rocketgal really? :(

[MisterHeroman]

@rocketgal Source?

[rocketgal]

@MisterHeroman Dr. leland Clark

''Most of the animals who were kept in the fluid for up to an hour survived for several weeks after their removal, before eventually succumbing to pulmonary damage.''

[ImprovedFred]

We wish we could breathe in water. Fish wish they could breathe out of water.

[SittingMooseShaman]

...it's the environment from which we humans once lived. Long ago. In evolutionary-time. Back then the amount of ambient Oxygen in the earths' atmosphere hovered around ~43%+...Which, also had a greater amount of dissolved O2 in bodies of both fresh & salt water. Our aquatic ancestors. Well, everything our bodies exists in are contained BENEATH our skin: In saline, blood & boogers!! Just as th' li'l emperor in MIB- He lived in a mechanical head; WE live in our brains; However, we/re in boogers!!

[cadelaide]

Unharmed.. that's a lie.. the mouse died a days or 2 later from lung trauma

[ProjectDv2]

@cadelaide Where'd you get that from?

[JSprayaEntertainment]

We already did it , with the newest form of heavy water

[Cryoniczz11]

Sweet

[monstermiataman]

that mouse is like WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO TO ME

[lawler123]

Fish don't breathe the Oxygen in H2O, they breathe dissolved oxygen gas inside water, which is filtered through their gills that separate the water from the dissolved oxygen, then it is used for respiration.

[dionspicklejar]

@lawler123 nobody cares

[ilovejiro]

I want a mouse that breathes water.

[Nelrith]

@ilovejiro That's nothing. I want a water that breathes MICE!

[kkjc1000]

dr. leland clark started this experiment in the 1960's

[ohsnapsitzcarel]

"mouses" lol

[SmogHouseTradingCo]

What a brave mouse to have volunteered himself for science.

[sujoms]

@SmogHouseTradingCo

hahaha laughed my ass of on your comment

[IAmStavvi]

Yeah all liquid breathing is done through compounds containing mostly perfluorocarbons, with perfluorodecalin being the main perfluorocarbon.  The mouse seen is a common picture associated with perfluorocarbons from google images.

[dereknatl]

If we lived underwater, communication would be difficult to say the least. No matter how much oxygen is in the water, we still couldn't speak.

[Balfourism]

THIS GUY IS AN IDIOT

I personally can hold my breath for 2:51 seconds...... withstanding the urge to breath ( with my diagpharm consulsing) for over 1 minute.. and i know people who can do it for over 4 minutes....... .. .. who needs underwater breathing...

[SurfersGlory]

mouses?..good job dumbass

[nacholance27]

what a terrible commentary...who chose him?

[thechemistexplains]

The liquid is not water, it is perfluorocarbons (PFCs). They are an organic chemical compound where all of the hydrogens have been replaced by flourines. They can dissolve large quantities of oxygen. They are used in artifical blood to delay the need for real blood during surgery, etc. Because PFCs carry less oxygen then hemoglobin does, the patient will eventually need to breathe oxygen rich air.

[scottweise18]

So its like say if humans or some other animal like a dog started say living in a natural area where this stuff exists just hypothetically and they remain in that stuff their whole life and their children and grandchildren lived in that stuff would it be possible for them to evolve say over millions of years into an aquatic animal say likea whale or something . Like remember that whales are descendants of animals that once lived on land . Is it possible for us to reshape our evolution ?

[thechemistexplains]

@scottweise18 We as humans continually shape our evolution. For example, modern humans are able to grow, produce, and store more food than can normally be grown by mother nature alone. We use genetically modified plants, fertilizers, farming methods, refridgeration, etc. This means that many of the humans who are living today would not be otherwise. This overrides natural selection and humanity takes its genome into its own hands.

[bananian]

@thechemistexplains

but not everyone in the world gets treatment or technology. Many rural population are still dictated by natural selection.

[scottweise18]

If anyone says that breathing liquid isnt possible either ur retarded or u've been living under a rock . Please no more of this conspiracy magic crap . This is proven that we can breathe this stuff get over it . The FBI isnt out to get ya .

[smokintheblaze]

Blitzball, anyone?

[1337KR3W101]

@smokintheblaze

Jecht Shot is overpowered

[smokintheblaze]

@1337KR3W101 Hence, the reason it's soo loved.

[elijahcrazy]

@1337KR3W101 no

[4dresdner]

verdammte dreckswichser - wäre sie darin verreckt, hätte denen das nen scheißdreck gekümmert!!

gegen tierversuche, dafür giebts genug tierquäler!!

[thespacebase]

Why is this man yelling at me?

[MrChicharo90]

@thespacebase He's excited...

[leeroy629]

This is what they used to use for infants that were born premature that didn't have sufficient surfactant to breath properly on their own, they would fill their lungs with this liquid to allow O2 exchange, they don't use this method any more

[Neobdragon]

H2O is 2 parts hydrogen and one part oxygen.

[WackyWadslow]

@Neobdragon No shit.

[intigfx]

That voiceover sounds like he's impatient for the program to be over.

[hartrw]

it's not water but a highly oxygenated perfluorocarbon (kind of like a 'liquid teflon')

[zestyguy87]

meanwhile the mouse is traumatized because he thinks the human is trying to fuckin drown him.

[sh0mmY]

@zestyguy87 hahahaaahah

[barkingspider33]

did he seriously say 'mouses'? 0:16

[WhiteLies666]

@barkingspider33 No you retard! He said 'Mouse's', meaning what belongs to the mouse! ;)

[EdTheBadass]

Job tescription:

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stroking mice

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[te4s80txmt]

Discovery Communications is going to raise a generation of idiots. No animal breaks down the H2O molecule to get oxygen. Shame on you, History Channel.

[flyinbryan1619]

if you have the age old problem in finding mice drowned in the bowls of water you keep around the house, just keep bowls of this around instead.

[mankyman6]

But I don't wanna breath fish poo

[WertzOne]

@mankyman6

Yeah, the dog and human one isn't a problem, but fish? eeew!.

[WertzOne]

Mouse mind:

0:00 to 0:11 - "What the fuck, man!"

1:15 to 1:23 - "That was horrible!"

1:23 to 1:26 - "Lets do it again"

[Gunner193]

@mankyman6

You breathe poo gas from many things nearly all the time, even when you don't smell it. What's the difference?

[zombiebassist1994]

@thecridict100 FUCK YES

[zombiebassist1994]

WHY ARE WE NOT FUNDING THE RESEARCH FOR THIS

[ORACLE063]

this would also help clean out smokers lungs

[Dbelenit]

@ORACLE063 smokers should just stop fucking smoking

[suttersmax]

Fish extract dissolved O2 from water, but they do not split water atoms.

[suttersmax]

Just in case there are people who don't understand danno's comment - you can have H20 without O2, and the latter is what most animals on earth breathe. An oxygen molecules can't exist alone, bonding with other atoms or itself.

[notessimodude]

lol "mouses"

[cmsg77]

There's a problematic line in the film, too, where the narrator comments on the amount of oxygen available in water saying "they don't call it H2O for nothing". Of course, only dissolved oxygen, not oxygen bound in a water molecule, is available for breathing, whether with gills or with lungs.

[cmsg77]

Reluctant to be picky, but the mouse is not breathing water - highly oxygenated or otherwise - but a perflourocarbon liquid, in which both oxygen and carbon dioxide are highly soluble. Water which is saturated with oxygen still does not contain sufficient dissolved oxygen to be breathable using lungs.

[ralfeg7]

@imonaboatmuther most likely not, it's probably a perflourocarbon. learn some biochem

[68inwood]

Look up "liquid breathing" on wikipedia. There's your answer.

[toasterder]

Its not H20... its some halo carbon compound

[MrTazay]

@ShaoTanto Yes, but it probably realises its not going to get hurt. Its really relaxed for something that should be freaking out..

[superbacon321]

@MrTazay they dont show it here but in a chemistry textbook the mouse had a weight tied to its tail

[MrTazay]

@superbacon321 You have chem texts that show this? Mine doesn't.. Well still xD It still should be freaking out, even with it's tail weighted

[JewTubeUsername]

"They don't call it H2O for nothing." Al_Bundy_despairing.jpg

[danno1111]

"they don't call it H2O for nothing" - what an idiot.  The oxygen bonded to hydrogen in water isn't what fish breathe.

[HitmanLocc]

@danno1111 wat do they breath then?

[danno1111]

@HitmanLocc They breath oxygen dissolved in water - that's why fish tanks have those little bubbler things, otherwise the fish wouldn't get enough oxygen.

[HitmanLocc]

@danno1111 - oh ok, thanks for the knowledge.

[ralfeg7]

@danno1111 even though this isn't made explicit to the viewer i'm pretty sure anyone with a brain would know this. like you

[firefrostpeacemaker]

@danno1111 ROFLMAO

[WhiteLies666]

@danno1111 ...Americans ;)

[SilverTrippyHaze]

@WhiteLies666 ...Brits. ;)

[MrLiveitandloveit]

@danno1111 ummmmmm yes it is.

[danno1111]

@MrLiveitandloveit I'm afraid not. Fish breath oxygen dissolved in the water. That's why fish tanks have aerators - to put more oxygen into the water.

[MrLiveitandloveit]

@danno1111 You're right. I looked it up and I was wrong. I stand corrected.

[scottweise18]

@danno1111 yea its like some fluocarbon is what they call it ? Like its a liquid but its not water .

[clockwise3559]

@danno1111 yeah but they do extract it, around 80 -85% i think...They dont call it H2O for nothing....

[danno1111]

@clockwise3559 No, they don't.  H2O stays H2O, there's other oxygen dissolved in water which they "extract".

[ohsnapsitzcarel]

@danno1111 i agree... i think the guy that's talking is uneducated lol

[dathoedezt]

@danno1111

wasnt what he was saying but yea sounded stupid way he said it

[MrMakeman]

Horray, now we can be useless as Aquaman.

[notmyeverything]

@MrMakeman

ROFL

[elijahcrazy]

@MrMakeman hes not useless hes super mega ultimate duper extreamly not needed

[CutelittleMouseygirl]

...and after the mouse got out of the water it was just "meh... I'm wet... I like you..."

WET MICE LOOK SO CUTE!

[SmGrGo]

The Abyss...anyone

[spotlightman1234]

i like how he says mouses but it's mice

[BlackenedHorizon]

@spotlightman1234

He's saying it possessively, "mouse's," not trying to pluralize it.

[Azarathos]

@BlackenedHorizon Actually, he's not saying it possessively either. He's just saying "the mouse is."

[BlackenedHorizon]

@Azarathos

Yeah that's what I was getting at, wasn't thinking correctly, thanks for correcting me.

[franpsyco]

poor mousey mouse

[BigCM06]

lol, that mouse is like "what the fuck just happened??"

[ekham1]

I WANT TO DO THAT!!!

[lostbuffalo]

Why don't we use this for patients dying with fluid filled lungs from pneumonia?

I had walking pneumonia for over 2 years after accidentally inhaling pidgin and mouse shit that fell in my face on a construction job. every doctor i saw failed me failed to listen, failed to examine, failed to test... just did the simple tests, antibiotics and gave up when it didn't help. aged me 40 years inside...went from an active 24year old athlete to living the life of a 60 year old in less than a year

[niertap]

It's not water, it's PFC.

[shadowuni9]

stop testing plese

[Bazzzzzaaaaaa]

this is incredible