> The team recruited 27 healthy adult men in Japan, each of whom received a dose of non-oxygenated perfluorodecalin via the anus. They were asked to retain the liquid for a full hour as the dosage slowly increased from 25 to 1,500 mL. Twenty of the men successfully completed the experiment.

7 of them went home and never spoke of it again.

Excuse me, I just gotta go unblock my airway.

"We were promised flying cars, instead we got butt breathing."

>Yes, they gave the animals enemas.

I am relieved for them.

"Are you a nose or mouth breather?"

"...I'm a butt breather."

Fix sleep apnea with this one weird trick!

Why are new CPAP machines so uncomfortable?

To think I've been doing breathing wrong all these years...

that means we can now smoke two cigarettes at once?

So "blowing smoke up one's arse" isn't a completely baseless resuscitation technique after all.

> it did provide a handy plot point for the 1989 film The Abyss, in which a rat is able to “breathe” in a similar liquid

Yes.. a rat..

(The statute of spoiler limitations is definitely over, so rather than being coy I'll say that a person undergoes the same procedure, under duress, in an particularly dramatic scene. It's a great movie but I fear its effects won't feel like they've held up well for anybody watching it for the first time.)

> ...they gave the animals enemas. They then induced respiratory failure...

Wow, so cool! And the results are such valuable science!

/s

So blowing smoke up someone's xxxx is actually beneficial

Another great post from Arse Technica

Here comes the next anally focused franchise opportunity for Southern California

This is like the intro to the Squdbillies episode where Dan Halen makes the octowing chicken, but instead of that is ass lungs.

Welcome to the future, we have ass lungs now.

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