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Tu_triky wrote:
Man 'hibernates' for 24 days

If this freaking cold weather keeps up here, I might just break that record. :beaten:

bmwracer wrote:
If this freaking cold weather keeps up here, I might just break that record. :beaten:

:hehe: yeah it's bitterly cold (for L.A.) in the mornings and late evenings...we need an emoticon with a chap warming his fingerless glove wearing hands over an oil drum fire.

Anime Dad wrote:Amazing.

I feel like doing that sometimes ;)

yeah with an anime playing in my head...

You southerners are SO spoiled! :P

This story is really shocking tho! I wasn't even aware that this was possible. The guy was mad lucky.

Wynter wrote:You southerners are SO spoiled! :P

This story is really shocking tho! I wasn't even aware that this was possible. The guy was mad lucky.

That's what is so insane...how can you survive for 3 weeks WITHOUT water (and food).....just a few drops of Korean BBQ sauce a day...that's unheard of.

Tu_triky wrote:

That's what is so insane...how can you survive for 3 weeks WITHOUT water (and food).....just a few drops of Korean BBQ sauce a day...that's unheard of.

Exactly. Like I've heard you can survive for a certain duration of time without food, but you absolutely need water to survive that long. Has any more info been released about this? It's a fantastic news story.

Wynter wrote:

Exactly. Like I've heard you can survive for a certain duration of time without food, but you absolutely need water to survive that long. Has any more info been released about this? It's a fantastic news story.

nah i heard about it on the radio this afternoon so i decided to look it up on the web and this was the only article i could find at the time.

Tu_triky wrote:

nah i heard about it on the radio this afternoon so i decided to look it up on the web and this was the only article i could find at the time.

Ahhhhh okies. No worries. I'm gonna share this story wtih the science department tomrrow. :beaten:

Wynter wrote:

Ahhhhh okies. No worries. I'm gonna share this story wtih the science department tomrrow. :beaten:

how the hell can you survive with no water for 24 days...that's nuts!

Tu_triky wrote:

how the hell can you survive with no water for 24 days...that's nuts!

That's what I wanna know. You'd think this would be a huge scientific breakthrough, but there doesn't seem to be any hype about it!

Wynter wrote:

That's what I wanna know. You'd think this would be a huge scientific breakthrough, but there doesn't seem to be any hype about it!

and the guy suffered no ill effects from his experience to boot...he's already back to work....this story is flippin' amazing.

Tu_triky wrote:


and the guy suffered no ill effects from his experience to boot...he's already back to work....this story is flippin' amazing.

I'm beginning to doubt whether or not it's true.

Wynter wrote:

I'm beginning to doubt whether or not it's true.

it's true as far as the guy getting lost and rescued....i saw another article about it in the Mainichi Daily News...but yeah, with regard to the specifics....dunno...seems miraculous.

Tu_triky wrote:

it's true as far as the guy getting lost and rescued....i saw another article about it in the Mainichi Daily News...but yeah, with regard to the specifics....dunno...seems miraculous.

Seems impossible. I guess we'll just have to wait and see. What was your source?

Wynter wrote:

Seems impossible. I guess we'll just have to wait and see. What was your source?

this bear i know.....

Tu_triky wrote:

this bear i know.....

Japanese newspaper Mainchi Daily News

http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20061212p2a00m0na005000c.html

Tu_triky wrote:

this bear i know.....

:lol: Yer so grand. :muack:

Wynter wrote:

:lol: Yer so grand. :muack:

thanks, i dunno....that comment made me laugh. :bonk:

TOKYO - Japanese births rose for the first time in six years in 2006, according to government statistics announced Monday, offering a glimmer of hope for a rapidly aging society.

Japan's population of 127 million shrank in 2005 for the first time on record, mostly due to a steadily falling birth rate, raising the prospect of a severe labor shortage and difficulties in paying the health bills and pensions of large numbers of elderly.

But preliminary data for 2006 showed there were 1.086 million births in Japan last year, 23,000 more than the previous year, the Health Ministry said Monday.
Way to go Toshi!!! :dancing: :applaud: :victory: [/list:u]

Who votes we send g-mark over to Japan to help increase the birth rate with some kawaii Japanese ladies? :hehe: