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![]() Interesting depiction of liquid breathing - also called fluid breathing - which has been used for experimental medical treatment.
Here's how to go from air-breathing mode to gillfluid-breathing mode:
Fassin lay back, zoning out as best he could, fighting the urge to panic, the gag response of fear as the gillfluid poured into his nose, throat and lungs like the coldest drink anybody had ever taken.
This idea has been used in sf before; Joe Haldeman mentions it in The Forever War (1974). It is used to great dramatic effect in the 1989 film The Abyss.
![]() (Ed Harris getting ready to switch to air breathing) If you're wondering if you can breath sea water like a fish and get away with it, you're still reading too much sf. However, take a look at this real-life effort to breathe the air dissolved in water - Breathe Like A Fish Thanks To Alan Bodner. Comment/Join this discussion ( 2 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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