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ESA To Study Human Hibernation
colonist writes "The European Space Agency (ESA) plans to study human hibernation for long-duration space voyages (a la 'Alien', '2001'). Although 'practical hibernation mechanisms are at least a decade away', ESA researchers will make initial inquiries into DADLE (D-Ala,D-Leu-enkephalin), an opium-like drug that triggers hibernation in ground squirrels and human cells. Other subjects of interest include dobutamine, a drug that maintains muscle, and the Madagascan fat-tailed dwarf lemur, the only primate known to hibernate."
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That would be nice, but unfortunately hibernating is not the same as suspended animation. Hibernating animals still lose muscle mass and use energy. The metabolic rate decreases but does not stop in hibernation.
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Not true. Generally in hybernation animals drop their heart rate significantly but it doesn't stop. Bears drop their heart rate from around 40-50 bpm to 8-12 bpm. Which is slighty above other animals, which often decrease to 4 bmp. But what makes bear hibernation unique is that its blood temperature only drops slightly, allowing it to wake up quickly.
This is still hibernation.
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hibernation doesn't say diddly about the heart stopping . If the heart and/or respiration stops, you die due to lack of oxygen in the brain.
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The heart slows, it doesn't stop. If it stopped the animal would die; that is the definition of death, your heart stops. As for the definition of hibernation, it's a state of regulated hypothermia. That is why bears are not technically hibernating, their body temperature doesn't drop, so it is not considered a state of hypothermia. That is also the reason why they can be woken up easly. Heart rate can be increased fairly quickly, but body tempature is a much slower process.
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Many physicists, including Stephen Hawking (see Hawking's Chronology Protection Conjecture), believe that due to the problems a wormhole would theoretically create, including allowing time travel,
Hawking now believes the opposite. Part of the recent black hole hoopla was that space/time travel in this matter wouldn't work.
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