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Sama-Bajau “sea nomads” people gene mutations allow them to free-dive 13 minutes
- rvcdbn 3y agocan’t wait to get this CRISPR’ed into me
- kqr2 3y agoMaybe combine with genes from the Mount Everest Sherpas too.
- midnitewarrior 3y agoYou know there will be a monthly fee associated with the patented pills you must take to activate the CRISPR genetic modification you'll be receiving. It will be BMW's heated seats all over again.
- bicx 3y agoNah, it’ll be the monthly fee for the pills that stop your body from rejecting all your new CRISPR genes.
- lamp987 3y agoi dont think that would enlarge your organs accordingly, youre already grown.
- NLPaep 3y agoRestart the process
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- lacrimacida 3y agoIt’s absolutely amazing and terrifying at the same time to be underwater for that much time on only one breath. My personal record is a bit above 70 seconds.
- guytv 3y agoif that's terrifying to you, don't watch: "The deepest breath" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzH6BI6P4Uo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzH6BI6P4Uo
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> amazing and terrifying at the same time to be underwater for that much time on only one breath The terror subsides. We have deep instincts related to diving. Releasing the terror reduces oxygen burn, which lets you access the 2+ minute range, even with swimming.
- throwaway290 3y agoIs it related to immersing face in cold water that is supposed to dramatically lower heart rate?
- version_five 3y agoFyi: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_reflex https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_reflex Sama-Bajau are specifically mentioned as having an enhanced reflex.
- mmastrac 3y agoBy releasing, do you mean letting go of it?
- klyrs 3y agoThat seems low to me. As a bored teenager in the pre-smartphone era, I would occasionally time myself holding my breath to pass the time. I started around 3 minutes, and with a little practice and tricks like hyperventilating beforehand and keeping my back straight, I got up to 4 minutes.
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- omair_inam 3y agohttps://archive.ph/GY27i https://archive.ph/GY27i
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- decodebytes 3y agoJust searched for world record. 24 minutes! Budimir Šobat (Croatia) at 56 years old no less!
- kuhewa 3y agoWithout breath up on supplemental oxygen, it is half that
- lhorie 3y agoI saw a video on YouTube recently from an independent content creator who went to look for these mythical sea nomads, and apparently what he found was that the idyllic scene of a remote tribe living off the land with highly refined but primitive fishing techniques was largely fabricated. The locals were alegedly just going along with the westerner film makers, partly because in their eyes, participating in a mockumentary was an amusing opportunity that doesn't come along every day. He then tried to get them to show him how they really fish, and it turns out they use modern gear like flippers and wet suits but also do incredibly dangerous things like breathing out of a tube connected to a machine on a small boat in the middle of the night. The video doesn't get into the exact science, but it also looks like the fishing isn't sustainable either, as divers reported needing to progressively dive deeper/take bigger risks over time to find high yields.
- judofyr 3y agoDo you have the link?
- testmanium 3y agoIf it’s the same one that I saw, it’s this one https://youtu.be/qE9pL6XzvAw https://youtu.be/qE9pL6XzvAw
- bpodgursky 3y agoWell it's entirely possible both are true; this mutation allowed them to fish more efficiently for thousands of years, and they've shifted to modern techniques for convenience and out of competition.
- yunohn 3y agoYes, this is most likely. The biological advantage was useful, before humans invented modern technology that allows for actually unsustainable, industrial fishing.
- lo_zamoyski 3y agoI believe something similar happened with Margaret Mead. In "Coming of Age in Samoa", Mead made the wild (and completely bogus) claim that, in the state of "nature", adultery is not a problem. It's all free love, man. She ostensibly drew on what Samoans were telling her, but what they were telling her was apparently the result of their own impish sense of humor. If you look at what actually happened, you find reports of broken jaws and stabbings whenever, say, a Samoan husband discovered his wife in bed with another man. We can presume that the problem here is a remarkable sloppiness and credulity on the part of Mead, but other scholars note that she was having (or had recently been in) an adulterous affair herself. A guilty conscience needs resolution, and resolution begins with admission of guilt and remorse, but when pride is in the mix, this cannot be. So projection and rationalization become very tempting. Mead appears to have chosen the later. (Aldous Huxley made a similar point when remarking why he had, in his younger years, taken a nihilistic position with respect to meaning, namely, that he wanted a way to rationalize sexual revolution, licentiousness and lust. If nothing means anything, then why not sleep around and indulge what would otherwise be recognized as depraved sexual desires? Much of ideology involves some pathetic and embarrassingly domestic and mundane moral failing at its core that's been rationalized into a pompous edifice. Communism, for example, sprouts from envy, while rapacious capitalism from greed.)
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- nwellinghoff 3y agoWatched the same documentary. It seemed much more realistic and authentic.
- cultofmetatron 3y agoThere needs to be sme kind of permaculture type movement for the ocean. at least parts that we as humans actively rely on as a resource
- c_o_n_v_e_x 3y agoWhen I lived in Singapore, I used to go to Bintan a lot during NE Monsoon to kitesurf. There were lots of Orang Laut, an unrelated group of nomadic people, in their houseboats just offshore.