They actually submerged a rat in perfluorocarbon for the movie "The Abyss"

1. 2020-04-07 at 8:35 PM UTC

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   Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Dark Matter [my scoffingly uncritical tinning]
   
   
   Perfluorocarbon is a molecule that's similar in function to the protein hemoglobin, as it transports oxygen, so you can breathe an oxygenated isotonic solution of it just like air. The only problem is getting rid of the CO2 quickly enough, and getting the liquid out of your lungs when you are done.
   
   

   This sequence, cut from British versions of the film because of perceived cruelty to animals, anticipates Bud's immersion in the same liquid. Unlike those scenes filmed with Harris, however, the rat really breathed the fluorocarbon mixture: ‘what you see is a rat breathing a liquid. There are no tricks, no special effects of any kind’ (p. 95).13 The technoscientific ‘innovation’ of liquid breathing had already been realised in 1989 by Johannes Kylstra. Kylstra, whom Cameron consulted before the film in 1987, published his findings on the feasibility for humans to breathe through oxygenated fluorocarbons in 1977, and his animal test studies date back to 1962.14
   
   James Cameron recalls meeting Francis Falejczyk, the diver Kylstra worked with, when he was 16 or 17 (between 1969 and 1971). The meeting led Cameron to write a short story, titled ‘The Abyss’, set in an underwater laboratory and premised on the use of liquid breathing.13
   
   Even at this time, he knew from Falejczyk that Kylstra had concluded that, while divers might use oxygenated fluorocarbons at rest, the increased levels of oxygen when at work would make the suitable oxygenated fluorocarbons prohibitively toxic. Falejczyk himself developed pneumonia after the experiment. Certainly, while forms of liquid breathing are used in neonatal care today, there is no successful counterpart in adults, where relative lung space does not allow for sufficient absorption from full liquid immersion. Liquid breathing, a pivotal feature of The Abyss, provides a provocative example of the technoscientific imaginary's role in considering oxygenated fluorocarbons as an emerging or future medical technology.

   https://mh.bmj.com/content/42/4/e31?utm_source=trend_md&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=jnnp&utm_content=trendmd4
2. 2020-04-07 at 8:38 PM UTC

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   The Self Taught Man Black Hole
   That chick in that movie also pissed herself on set and almost drowned as well because Cameron made her swim for like 14 hours or some shit
3. 2020-04-07 at 9:05 PM UTC

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   I Live In Your Crawlspace Secretly4 Space Nigga

   Originally posted by Fox That chick in that movie also pissed herself on set and almost drowned as well because Cameron made her swim for like 14 hours or some shit

   
   Wrong
4. 2020-04-07 at 9:13 PM UTC

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   The Self Taught Man Black Hole

   Originally posted by I Live In Your Crawlspace Secretly4 Wrong

   
   Or something like that
5. 2020-04-07 at 9:21 PM UTC

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   I Live In Your Crawlspace Secretly4 Space Nigga

   Originally posted by Fox Or something like that

   
   That's right
6. 2020-04-08 at 3:17 AM UTC

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   vindicktive vinny Black Hole
   wont work tho because there has to be air in your ear cannals.