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on Saturday February 09 2019, @11:45AM
from the now-that's-what-you-call-a-cool-cat! dept.
from the now-that's-what-you-call-a-cool-cat! dept.
A big freeze is sliding its way across America covering the land in ice and snow, and also deep freezing animals, one of which has been successfully thawed out. For all of our advances in medicine to use low temperatures for healing, time travel and as a type of stasis, mother nature proves once again that she has the upper hand. A cat aptly named Fluffy was frozen to the point that a vet could not register a temperature; it was brought back to life after being thawed using towels, warmers, and IV fluids. Humans have survived being thawed in this manner, though it can be hit or miss as to whether or not they will be revived, and in what condition.
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Montana Cat Lives after Being Frozen
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(Score: 5, Funny) by MostCynical on Saturday February 09 2019, @12:09PM (5 children)
Normal: "cat's dead, I'll get the shovel"
Depths of very cold winter: "too hard to dig, lets see if it gets better when we warm it up"
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 09 2019, @02:29PM (1 child)
So, a frozen cat is like Schroedinger's cat?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 09 2019, @07:34PM
It is well known that quantum phenomena become more Schrodinger at colder temps
(Score: 4, Touché) by Immerman on Saturday February 09 2019, @04:51PM (1 child)
As the old medical adage goes - you're not dead until you're warm and dead.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 09 2019, @07:37PM
There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Sunday February 10 2019, @11:45AM
They froze Fluffy [youtube.com]? I mean, I know this cat is hilariously funny, but freezing the poor guy seems a bit excessive.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Bot on Saturday February 09 2019, @01:00PM (2 children)
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 09 2019, @01:02PM
I for one welcome our immortal feline overlords.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 09 2019, @06:27PM
A while back we were cat sitting my cousin's cat and he fell off the stairwell onto the floor. It must have been like a 9 foot drop. He landed on his neck. I was so worried. He got up and walked away as if nothing happened. He's perfectly fine and I'm guessing he also has 8 lives left.
(Score: 2) by EEMac on Saturday February 09 2019, @01:10PM
News tends to focus on the negative - it's nice to know good things are happening too. Cute kitty!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 09 2019, @01:15PM (4 children)
Get a better thermometer. The is just a tall tale without the temperature.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Saturday February 09 2019, @01:26PM
They don't say exactly. But Article says, "the temperature that afternoon in Kalispell was just below freezing." So you can get an idea!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 09 2019, @02:42PM
FTFY... This is just a tall tail without the temperature.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 09 2019, @03:21PM
To me it's just looks like the cat has lots of snow stuck to its hair, nothing more. Maybe enough to prevent it from moving, but it was not frozen.
(Score: 2) by Fluffeh on Monday February 11 2019, @03:10AM
The temperature reading really depends on where the thermometer is inserted. I can attest that sometimes getting a reading from a cat is difficult to say the least, they are all squirms and scratches all of a sudden when they work out what you want to do.
*sips coffee*
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 09 2019, @01:22PM (1 child)
Dick Cheney, who hates eating frozen cats. He prefers live food.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 09 2019, @04:41PM
Nobody likes frozen chicken.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday February 09 2019, @01:34PM (7 children)
I got a fair chuckle about this story running right after one about "carbonite". Wonder if the eds did that on purpose.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by realDonaldTrump on Saturday February 09 2019, @02:19PM (6 children)
They try to hook everything in to Climate Change. Used to be Global Warming, they stopped calling it that. Because too many places were getting very cold. Like the horrible weather in Kalispell, it got "just below freezing" and that cat conked out.
And you think it's funny. I'll tell you, it's not funny to the great people of Montana. Because Carbonite, otherwise known as Clean Coal, is their living. And their lively hood.
I sent VP Pence to Montana. With Former Secretary Zinke. And I said, make your first stop the Crow Reservation. Also known as Crow Nation. Where our Incredible Indians have a Clean Coal mine. Working very hard and very proudly -- just like me. And VP Pence gave them my message. He told them THE WAR ON COAL IS OVER!!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday February 09 2019, @02:27PM (4 children)
Look, Mr. President, it's a free-ish country so you can enjoy whatever you like but I'm being good because I want something else in my stocking come Christmas morning.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday February 09 2019, @04:18PM (2 children)
Free-ish: like Amish but with more guns?
:)
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(Score: 2) by RandomFactor on Sunday February 10 2019, @03:51PM
WHY is this so terrifying?
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday February 11 2019, @05:15PM
Free-ish, because we sign away our rights without a care in the world. Like with the "Patriot Act".
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 09 2019, @07:56PM
Using a Christmas stocking as a condom is how you get "Santa's little helpers".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @02:49PM
Pence speak with forked tongue.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 09 2019, @02:47PM (1 child)
Humans are hit or miss because it will be obvious quickly whether they have suffered brain damage. With cats, the effects of brain damage may be ascribed to normal behaviour.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by theluggage on Saturday February 09 2019, @03:31PM
Dunno - I mean, yes, there are a lot of internet videos of cats doing funny/stupid things but there's no shortage of videos of humans doing stupid things (even if you don't include obsessively videoing their cats in that total).
TFA doesn't say if Kitty got frozen while trying to copy an "ice bucket challenge" video... and do you want to bet against some sick moron out there putting a cat in the deep freeze after reading this story?
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday February 09 2019, @04:14PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa3uz2wCDQM [youtube.com]
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(Score: 5, Informative) by istartedi on Saturday February 09 2019, @05:47PM
AFAIK, humans who have been brought back were below the ice in lakes and such. What's below the ice is not frozen, just really close to freezing. This is an important distinction. When water freezes, it expands suddenly and this breaks down cell membranes. You're not coming back from that.
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(Score: 2) by drussell on Saturday February 09 2019, @08:09PM (6 children)
Could not register a temperature? What the heck does that mean?!
Was the cat at absolute zero?!! The thermometer failed? Incorrect range for the application?!
This entire story is complete BS unless you can register a temperature!!
Oooh, 4 degrees below expected body temperature... It's a medical breakthrough!
A Miracle! :facepalm: Fail. Fail! FAIL!
I need to ask my friend who works at the vet clinic about this one... :facepalm:
Bollocks!
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 09 2019, @09:01PM (2 children)
Probably that they were using some high-tech medical gadget that is designed only to get highly accurate temperatures on things that are fairly warm. Try to measure something cold and it will probably stare blankly at you insisting you are doing something wrong. "Insert in to ass and press any key to continue."
Typical "smart" gadget.
(Score: 2) by legont on Sunday February 10 2019, @04:04AM (1 child)
Not sure about veterinarian, but human classic - dumb - thermometers register 35 to 42 Celsius. My cat typically had 38, while humans are at 36.6 when healthy. I use "under arm" method as opposed to perverted ones).
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @10:01PM
Under tongue is considered perverted? Damn, after the 60's i figured you Puritans were gone!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @12:20AM (2 children)
Maybe they tried to use a rectal thermometer but couldn't insert it, so gave up.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @12:07PM
With a frozen cat it can be so hard to break the ice
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @02:57PM
If they tried to use a rectal thermometer it would have been instantly apparent that the cat was alive or dead.