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Originally posted by Gazrok
On her Facebook today....
Today my weight is 128.2 lbs
I am asking for support; since the experiment will close down soon when I cannot pay for the space or phones. All my credit cards are full and unusable and I have $5 left in my life to spend!
On her Facebook today....
OK. Big update coming tomorrow.
Originally posted by thisguyrighthere
Originally posted by Vasa Croe
So...do these guys poop sunbeams?
Sure do. And on extra hot and sunny days the bowl is a blast of color.
Blog: Day 44: Sunday 16th June
I want to let you know that at mid-day on Wednesday 19th June 1913, on the 47th day of the "Living On Light" experiment, I am going to conclude the experiment
on the 47th day of the "Living On Light" experiment, I am going to conclude the experiment
Originally posted by Gazrok
Then again, we knew that wasn't going to happen from the get-go.
Originally posted by Gazrok
I still think she snookered folks. I know if I go a day without eating, by that evening, I'm going to have a terrible headache. I can only imagine if she ACTUALLY did go without food for days. Possible? Sure...but when you aren't used to it? Seems fishy.
In a 1997 article in the British Medical Journal, Michael Peel, senior medical examiner at the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, cites well-documented studies reporting survivals of other hunger strikers for 28, 36, 38 and 40 days.
Originally posted by Bedlam
At least she folded her cards and stopped. A lot of "breatharians" have been caught cheating. Because, really, you don't have any method of living on sunlight and water. If there's any organism that can subsist on photosynthesis, a person ain't it.
I suppose if you weighed 500 pounds coming into it, you might make a few weeks on stored pancakes.
What this would require is some handy genetic engineering to let humans utilize the photosynthetic abilities of chloroplasts.
This means, however, that if we humans wanted chloroplasts for ourselves, or our livestock or pets, we would need to genetically modify the host animal to express proteins required for chloroplast function. It has been estimated that about 70-90% of the genes required for chloroplast function are provided by the plant’s genome (Martin et al, 1998).
Although it's interesting, it doesn't seem very feasible:
Photosynthetic efficiency (amount of light energy converted into usable chemical potential energy) typically is about 3-6%, so let’s assume 5. So the energy produced by a human being lying in the sun for an hour (3600 seconds) at midday would be:
400 J/s/m2 x (0.5 x 1.8m2) x 0.05 x 3600s = 64800J = 64.8kJ (or 15.43 kcal)
By comparison, an apple has about 400kJ of usable food energy. So an hour in the sun is about the same as a sixth of an apple. The daily energy requirements for a human being sit around 10,000 kJ per day, so that’s going to require 150 hours per day of sitting in the sun. Needless to say, that’s impossible.
To be honest, you are just better off eating an apple.
If you knew you'd be out of money in the next week or two, if you know that you're down to your last few dollars, is this a good time in your life to do a special 6 month experiment? Is this a good time in your life to be weak and where you would not be able to work?
Most people with brains would say "no".