Amazing Scientific Fact
@nanette64 (20364)
Fairfield, Texas
March 20, 2016 9:46am CST
Most people remember the movie Demolition Man with Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes where they are placed in a cryogenic state of suspended animation; frozen if you will.
The possibility of this theme may seem only for the movies, but in fact, there is an animal on this planet that does this every year. It is the Alaskan Wood Frog. It literally freezes for the 7 months of winter and dethaws in the spring.
The glucose and urea in the cells increase so as to keep the cells from dying out. The heart stops and suspended animation begins. "By making the cells super sweet with glucose, the frogs keep the water from leaving the cells and when spring comes, and the frogs thaw, they turn as much of the glucose as they can back into glycogen and they urinate out the rest." The frog literally comes back to life.
Now if only we humans could do that.
Strongest Weather on Earth did a show on this as well.
Each September, the wood frogs of Alaska do a very strange thing: They freeze.
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@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
20 Mar 16
I wonder if we can indeed do that..who knows but of course no one has tried Nanette.
I always find this fascinating that frogs can do this.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
20 Mar 16
You know, it wouldn't surprise me if scientists haven't been working on something like that @TiarasOceanView . I wonder if anybody's raised their hand and volunteered to be a guinea pig.
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@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
20 Mar 16
@nanette64 Yes I wouldnt be surprised either..I am sure someone would that thinks they are Houdini lolz
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
30 Mar 16
@enlightenedpsych2 I'm not sure. Could be.
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@Daljinder (23233)
• Bangalore, India
21 Mar 16
Talking about hibernation and freezing.....
This post of yours reminded me of this video I saw on you tube:
Thanks for watching.... 1. 19 year old Jean Hilliard was driving home from a friend’s house when her car skidded on an icy road and careened into a ditch. 2....
@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
21 Mar 16
Holy crap @Daljinder . That is absolutely amazing. The freezing process must have been so slow that her cells literally did like what the frogs' cells do.
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@Daljinder (23233)
• Bangalore, India
22 Mar 16
@nanette64 I was amazed too. Seriously. I know frost bite might mean one has to lose a toe or even a limb. But to see her walking out with all of her limbs intact was a miracle. Since she was frozen like that. She was truly lucky. Or maybe blessed.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
28 Mar 16
I wouldn't mind that myself @MGjhaud .
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
22 Apr 16
@nanette64 that would be realy interesting wow
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
22 Apr 16
I think they did it to Walt Disney, but I'm not 100% positive @Hatley .
@jaboUK (64361)
• United Kingdom
21 Mar 16
@nanette64 I've checked it and that really does seem like a miracle.
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
21 Mar 16
@jaboUK , check out the video that @Daljinder left in her comment. Absolutely amazing.
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
21 Mar 17
@nanette64 - Ms Nanette - Science is busily at work right here and now, freeze or no freeze... and I do not have any sort of explanation for it. Check the dates for all of the comments on this page. Some of them are far ahead of today's actual date - like they can be "31 March" whereas today is but 21 March. Someone took a giant leap into the future, no doubt, but forgot to freeze today's day.
- Gus-
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
21 Mar 17
It is weird that most are from 2016 @Ceerios . But then there are others that don't say the year.
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@cherriefic (10400)
• Philippines
30 Mar 16
That's an amazing thing about frogs. They can do a lot of things.
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