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14 comments to "The Ice Man that Baffled Scientists With His Ability to Withstand Fatally Freezing Conditions"
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CheeseDuck
March 8th, 2008 at
8:35 am
Maybe something in his genes?
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Claire
March 8th, 2008 at
9:57 am
Shame about that whole global WARMING thing because his (innate?) skill will be much less cool when he’s swimming in a temperate seas.
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Ali S.
March 8th, 2008 at
10:13 am
Oh, I remember seeing this guy on a National Geographic Special about people who have extraordinary abilities like speed reading, instant math calculations, endurance and so on. I think it related to how the brain works in many ways. It was quite intriguing and awesome to see folks who you could possibly walk past on the street who have “super brains”.
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Jules
March 8th, 2008 at
10:44 am
Impressive ability, I wonder if it works via some sort of natural anti-freeze in his system.
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Wow
March 8th, 2008 at
10:55 am
The article says “…climbing the Everest in his shorts”. Is that Mount Everest or just a local hill known as The Everest? hmmmm….
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Tom
March 8th, 2008 at
12:28 pm
I have also heard of monks in the Himalayas who through meditation are able to drastically raise their body temperature, and survive for several nights exposed to the elements at that altitude. They did a demonstration for scientists where they used their bodies to dry wet towels. You could see the steam coming off of them. It was pretty interesting.
This is probably a case of him subconsciously (or consciously if he has trained to do it) opening a metabolic pathway that is normally closed. It probably uses up a lot of energy, but it seems a much better way to survive extreme cold than sacrificing the extremities.
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rdubs
March 8th, 2008 at
12:58 pm
i think its called “inner fire” or something
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sam
March 8th, 2008 at
4:09 pm
I think we have our man for the mars mission!
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MoniA
March 8th, 2008 at
5:56 pm
Wow, the human body is amazing and we’re all different.
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VonSkippy
March 8th, 2008 at
6:40 pm
I vote he’s a alien. Someone needs to check his DNA (like in Joe Haldeman’s SF novel - Camouflage).
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SenorMysterioso
March 8th, 2008 at
10:03 pm
I wonder how he first discovered this ability.
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NeuroGirl
March 9th, 2008 at
12:31 am
I wonder what his BMR is… It sounds like he’s bradymetabolic which is just weird. Cool, but weird.
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Christophe
March 9th, 2008 at
1:03 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=madoDvtKEes&feature=related
chilly story.
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K!P
March 9th, 2008 at
4:41 am
# Wow Says:
March 8th, 2008 at 10:55 amThe article says “…climbing the Everest in his shorts”. Is that Mount Everest or just a local hill known as The Everest? hmmmm….
well he’s dutch, and in the Netherlands we don’t have hills, our biggest one is 300 meter :P. but its the everst.
i’ve seen te guy in action, standing in a ice tank for wel over an hour, than climbing out under own power. (2 meter high tank.
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