Comments for "Russian Scientists Keep A Severed Dog's Head Alive" Video at VideoSift.com

By haggis

haggis (http://www.videosift.com/member/haggis) — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 07:11:36 -0700

Is this for real? The wife thinks it's bogus. Didn't they do something similar with a monkey?

Come to think of it, didn't Tim Burton do the same to Pierce Brosnan?

By dag

dag (http://dag.videosift.com) — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 07:21:30 -0700

How awful if it's real. Quick, someone submit it to cuteoverload.com. Let's see if we can make those guys cry. ;-)

By skforty

skforty (http://www.videosift.com/member/skforty) — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:42:22 -0700

here is the link to the post on the website mentioned in the video. It also shows a longer video that includes stopping the dogs heart and reviving him....
http://greensboring.com/viewtopic.php?t=796

hmmmmmmmm weird

By swampgirl

swampgirl (http://swampgirl.videosift.com) — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:08:13 -0700

that's messed up, seriously. I don't buy it. Wouldn't the severed muscles in the neck prevent it from moving it's head that way?

By lucky760

lucky760 (http://lucky760.videosift.com) — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:28:35 -0700

WHOA! That's very interesting. I think it's possible for the head to twitch the way it did because they don't show us exactly how much neck is left. Still, though, why wouldn't they show the back of the neck?

By quantumushroom

quantumushroom (http://www.videosift.com/member/quantumushroom) — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:50:36 -0700

Horrible. Death is not just an absence of life, but an absence of any quality of life.

By deathcow

deathcow (http://www.videosift.com/member/deathcow) — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 22:57:21 -0700

No problem.. first, leave all fur on dog to make surgery clean and easy. Second, cut dogs head off, then, wash dog head thoroughly to remove all blood.

By ImmyRey

ImmyRey (http://www.videosift.com/member/ImmyRey) — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 23:31:54 -0700

Thats horrible

By lucky760

lucky760 (http://lucky760.videosift.com) — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 00:28:29 -0700

I wonder if it's studies like this that spawned the first premonitions of future generations with technology to keep people alive in head-only fashion. (E.g., Futurama episodes where today's celebrities live in glass jars of the future.)

By Tofumar

Tofumar (http://www.videosift.com/member/Tofumar) — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 00:49:23 -0700

If that's real, it's one of the cruelest things I've ever seen.

By sfjocko

sfjocko (http://www.videosift.com/member/sfjocko) — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 01:31:44 -0700

It seems like it's probably true, though this footage may be a re-enactment. :
"However, while the film could have been re-staged for the camera, it almost certainly depicts a series of real experiments. Bryukhonenko's work with canine circulation seems obscure today, but at the time was well publicized; his decapitation experiment even remarked upon by George Bernard Shaw.[1] Bryukhonenko's procedures are attested to in numerous books and medical papers, with some sources providing detailed technical information on the operations shown in the film. These texts also shed light on failures not mentioned in the film. For example, the severed heads survived only minutes in artificial circulation, while the resuscitated dogs often died after a few days.
Perhaps most importantly, Bryukhonenko's research was vital to the development of open-heart procedures in Russia. He was one of the leaders of the Research Institute of Experimental Surgery, where Professor A.A. Vishnevsky performed the first Soviet open-heart operation in 1957. Bryukhonenko developed a new version of the autojektor (for use on humans) in the same year; it can be seen today on display at the Museum of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Scientific Center of Cardiovascular Surgery in Russia. Bryukhonenko was awarded the prestigious Lenin Prize posthumously."
(wikipedia - though, especially in cases such as this, wikipedia warrants fact-confirmation; everthing else I've seen online points to this being true - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiments_in_the_Revival_of_Organisms)
Full video (20 min) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap1co5ZZHYE
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By lucasgreen

lucasgreen (http://www.videosift.com/member/lucasgreen) — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 18:55:52 -0700

hey man, it's cruel and sick shit like this that allows for so much medical advancement that we enjoy today

By phelixian

phelixian (http://www.videosift.com/member/phelixian) — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:26:33 -0700

That is messed up. Not sure how i feel about it. I was really bugged by the hammer pounding next to the dogs face.... ugh.

By James Roe

James Roe (http://jamesroe.videosift.com) — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:47:16 -0800

*nominate

By siftbot

siftbot (http://siftbot.videosift.com) — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:47:18 -0800

This video has been nominated as a top video of 2006 (nominate called by gold star member James Roe)

By lucky760

lucky760 (http://lucky760.videosift.com) — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:48:26 -0700

*promote in honor of Miracle Mike, the headless chicken.

I wonder what'd happen if we attached this dog's head on the chicken's body.

By siftbot

siftbot (http://siftbot.videosift.com) — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:48:28 -0700

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Thursday, August 10th, 2006 10:57pm PDT - promote requested by lucky760.

By yourhydra

yourhydra (http://www.videosift.com/member/yourhydra) — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:15:27 -0700

very creepy indeed. such a cute dog too

By vairetube

vairetube (http://www.videosift.com/member/vairetube) — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:25:19 -0700

the body exists to provide the brain with a vehicle and nutrition, so if you can alternately provide those things... combine this with the asimo you can control with your mind... might not be so bad if non-existence is not your preferred alternative.

you know we've all wondered about heads being kept alive... dont condemn the one guy who tried it and (maybe) got it to work.. he wasnt doing it for fun

By gargoyle

gargoyle (http://www.videosift.com/member/gargoyle) — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:45:42 -0700

nope, can't even bring myself to watch it.

By yourhydra

yourhydra (http://www.videosift.com/member/yourhydra) — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:03:26 -0700

i have to say its a hard issue, i have a problem with anyone who says "its absolutely unjust" or anyone that says "its completely justified" because it is not a clear line. science has to and will move forward, but we do have to watch who or what we step on in order to do that. this dog is only alive for a minimum amount of time as i understand, so it is not forced to live this way for its lifetime (unlike hundreds of cases of vegetative state humans who wish to die and are forced to live under some American law of god) but if this dog is in extreme pain or under enormous psychological distress, that becomes very inhumane. that doesn't SEEM to be the case here, but I am in no position to judge that and neither in anyone else who watches this.

By messenger

messenger (http://www.videosift.com/member/messenger) — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:23:21 -0700

That's some sick, sick stuff, like Faces of Death. Guilty upvote for the sneer of disgust on my lips.

By RadHazG

RadHazG (http://www.videosift.com/member/RadHazG) — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:40:25 -0700

such the old argument, is it moral to use research that was acquired in possibly cruel or inhumane ways to the benefit of others later?

one would argue that the damage is done, the information is now available and it would be a) a waste not to use valuable information to save lives, no matter how it was originally obtained and b) gives value to the person/animal so that their suffering was not in vain.

the other side is that to use information obtained illegally or through cruel/"evil" practices means the user of said information would "taint" his own work, that any subsequent work using this information is only condoning the actions previously taken.

and this plants us smack dab right into the argument about waterboarding oddly enough.

there are many shades of course, almost nothing is ever as black and white as that. personally im of a bit of both. the information is here, if we can save lives or improve them with what we now know, then so much the better. it IS however humanity's responsibility to prevent anything like this from happening, or if it is happening, to stop it. even if it's on the verge of making a phenomenal breakthrough, the moral cost is simply to high.

By paul4dirt

paul4dirt (http://www.videosift.com/member/paul4dirt) — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:44:48 -0700

try this at home kids