what the flapp doodle?

[a stranger]

I just saw this video the first think that came to my head was what the flapp doodle were they thinking?
here's the link

Spoiler: Contains footage that may be disturbing to animal lovers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSrIkUXwsNk&feature=player_embedded

what did you think?

 

[Valksy]

I think that I clicked out of Youtube before the video loaded. The title "Russian Dog experiment" was enough to make me pretty sure that I didn't need to see it.

For those who are easily disturbed by acts of animal cruelty, don't click.

 

[AnimeMan127]

@Valksy:Thanks for the heads up because I was about to click on the link.

 

[e2density]

It's really not that bad...
I watched it, and there really isn't anything too terrible in it. The Russians just experimented with a way to keep a dog alive without it's body. It's not gory or anything, and it doesn't show any of the machinery (that much) or any blood, it just shows the dogs head (wired up) and it's showing that he responds to light and sound.

It's an interesting piece, really.

I guess we've all wondered if it was possible to live without a body, but I definitely would never want to...I'd ask them just to kill me. Or make me a new body.

 

[Loop Stricken]

My first thought was "is this real?"

My second was along the lines of "This is pretty cool."

My third thought was a wonder if the dog's body was now re-enacting the 'All Nightmare Long' music video...

 

[GreyWolf257]

That is actually very interesting. I sounds like something out of a Science-Fiction novel.

 

[busterkeatonrules]

What I want to know is, what the hell did the DOG make of it?

 

[Loop Stricken]

What I want to know is, what the hell did the DOG make of it?

"Woof woof. Arf? Bark bark bark! Growl RUFFRUFF!"

 

[Valksy]

Chopping a dog's head off for the sake of some bullshit quackery. fuck them.

ergh. sometimes I genuinely prefer animals to human filth.

 

[Fire Daemon]

How long can a brain survive without oxygen? You would have to cut and attach pretty quickly I think. Also, if it's Russian than why is there an English voice with no hints of a Russian voice underneath yet still ambient sounds remain? If it were translated there should be the English over the Russian or no ambient noises (hammer, machine etc). It is possible they found two videos, one with the voice over and one not and then decided to add the English voice to video without the voice over for clarity but I find that hard to believe, especially considering that woeful depressing song is played over it which you wouldn't expect to be put in a scientific video.

Also notice that you don't really see anything. There is a machine behind the dogs head but there is no footage of the connection, no evidence that this isn't a full dog with its head to an angle. If you were filming the results of this experiment one would assume that you would film the thing from a variety of different angles to prove what you did.

This video is probably fake.

 

[Crescent Sun]

Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany heavily explored what some call mad science.
Ethnic centered poisons, UFOs, Reanimation, breeding chimps and other apes with people (the scientist in Russia actually obtained human volunteers for this *shudders*) time travel, replanting a monkey head on a new body (worked for a few hours then the bodies immune system killed the head) most importantly truly domesticating a wild species (it was a fox that through the generations of domestication acquired dog like characteristics and behavior like barking and wagging etc...)
There was actually a Soviet policy that nearly anyone could acquire a science grant if submitted paper work.
And supposed Nazi investigation into the occult. (not sure of the truth on this.)

 

[Loop Stricken]

Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany heavily explored what some call mad science.
*Snip*

For more details, watch Fringe.

 

[Crescent Sun]

Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany heavily explored what some call mad science.
*Snip*

For more details, watch Fringe.

I was going to say Fringe science, but I didn't know whether that was a term. plus mad science isn't used much anymore, that need to be fixed.

BTW my list were actual scientific tests not fiction, just so no one gets confused

 

[Loop Stricken]

Of course it's a term - Where do you think the TV series got its name from?

 

[Crescent Sun]

Of course it's a term - Where do you think the TV series got its name from?

could have made it up for the sake of the show IMO, But most of Fringe was based off sci-fi and Nazi/Soviet expeirments

 

[Cheery Lunatic]

I can't watch any form of animal cruelty. I'm that much of a wimp. I mean, I tear up reading books about when fictional animals die of old age.

Goddammit. This is going to haunt me all night.

 

[ultrachicken]

I'm curious as to how a stranger found that video...
Interesting, but I have a feeling it's fake.

 

[CoverYourHead]

I've seen crazier science. I think all scientists are actually off their rocker, but they're just so sexy in those lab coats I don't have the heart to call them out on it.

 

[Bofus Teefus]

A similar experiment performed in America (at least...more than likely elsewhere too.)

The idea was to study properties of a beating heart. In short, they cracked a heavily sedated dog's chest open and exposed all organs. Some connections were made to arteries and veins to directly measure things like cardiac output. Responses of cardiac output, heart rate, and a bunch of other things I can't remember at 2:30am in response to things like drugs and fluid injections. It gave us the knowledge that is now used to perform heart transplants and treat heart attacks. I've seen video of one of the runs of the experiment, and it's a bit disturbing to watch.

I consider myself to respect other living things, but there are experiments done on animals that have allowed us to save countless lives. Half of me thinks its a fair trade, the other half says I wouldn't feel the same if I was the dog.

By the way - the experiment I'm describing is very well documented, and not some random thing I saw on the internets. Not that I'm doubting this video. I'm not sure whether it's real or not.