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What a load of crap.

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we were raised by wolves. well, not really, but our family were pretty damned poor, and we were taught to hunt at a very young age. we gots our first .22 before most kids had a big-wheel... and we had a pony before we knew how to ride a bike. supplementing our diet with game meat were essential. as part o' our early education we were taught that a man could survive between two and three weeks without food... depending on how active he were. however, a person could live for no more than three or four days without water. is very important to keep such numbers in mind when organizing your kit.

 

perhaps the hermit has been w/o water for three days and a couple weeks w/o food... probably felt like 70 years. no doubt dementia set in as well.

 

am more surprised by the fact that the bbc would make this a news story.

 

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who would believe such nonsense?

 

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no doubt dementia set in as well.

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He hadn't had any food and water as far back as he can remember.

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  • 2 weeks later...
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/35126/

 

Here is a follow up. Apparently he has undergone a biological change. Unless the doctors are all in on it, I'm going to call this amazing.

 

Still not convinced. Going without food for two weeks, sure, I could see someone conditioning their bodies to handle that. Without water? No.

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Perhaps he has become solar-powered?

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I wish I could do photosynthesis.

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There's always geothermal. Or wind. Perhaps he spins around really fast when no one is looking.

Notice how I can belittle your beliefs without calling you names. It's a useful skill to have particularly where you aren't allowed to call people names. It's a mistake to get too drawn in/worked up. I mean it's not life or death, it's just two guys posting their thoughts on a message board. If it were personal or face to face all the usual restraints would be in place, and we would never have reached this place in the first place. Try to remember that.
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I saw this a few times when I was in India - even met a woman who lived in a cage and claimed that she had gone without food or water for 28 years (strangely she was overweight and smelled like curry).. We even had a talk with the scientists doing research and the problem was that they were Jain themselves and therefore started out believing (and wanted to prove) that it was true. Same here I think - I generally wasn't impressed with the Indian medical profession's approach to empirical evidence.

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Well, if he had really become some sort of harness for zero point energy or oimething, somebody would have kidnapped him all ready and taken him to a lab for dissection.

 

I mean his body is getting energy from somewhere, right? Ley lines?

Notice how I can belittle your beliefs without calling you names. It's a useful skill to have particularly where you aren't allowed to call people names. It's a mistake to get too drawn in/worked up. I mean it's not life or death, it's just two guys posting their thoughts on a message board. If it were personal or face to face all the usual restraints would be in place, and we would never have reached this place in the first place. Try to remember that.
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http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/35126/

 

Here is a follow up. Apparently he has undergone a biological change. Unless the doctors are all in on it, I'm going to call this amazing.

 

is a crock. scientists and doctors is terrible at debunking. hire a magician... or maybe a few prison inmates. wanna find out how the guy is sneaking in food and water? gets folks who is good at sleight-o-hand and sneaking to do the debunking.

 

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Yeah, I gotta agree with Grom. Fraud is still a much more plausible explanation than this guy somehow affecting a total change in the underlying chemistry of the human body.

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I'm not surprised you can live for 15 days without food.

 

Now, living you entire life since childhood without food is just crazy...

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If he moves, he needs energy. If he needs energy, he eats. End of.

 

You can't fool the laws of physics.

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Yeah, I gotta agree with Grom. Fraud is still a much more plausible explanation than this guy somehow affecting a total change in the underlying chemistry of the human body.

 

It's not underlying chemistry, it's energy balance. Energy spent by body, energy must go into body. Hell, you can even make it more basic than that and have it be a mass balance problem - unless he's no longer exhaling carbon dioxide, there has to be some carbon going into his body to replace the carbon going out.

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Yeah, I gotta agree with Grom. Fraud is still a much more plausible explanation than this guy somehow affecting a total change in the underlying chemistry of the human body.

 

It's not underlying chemistry, it's energy balance. Energy spent by body, energy must go into body. Hell, you can even make it more basic than that and have it be a mass balance problem - unless he's no longer exhaling carbon dioxide, there has to be some carbon going into his body to replace the carbon going out.

I was thinking more about water. Human cells use H2O, and the body loses a non-negligible amount of it through skin and by breathing. If more isn't provided, organs will start to fail.

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If he moves, he needs energy. If he needs energy, he eats. End of.

 

You can't fool the laws of physics.

 

If we ignore the biological complications and look at it from a physicist's point of view, he could maintain energy balance simbly by absorbing heat from his environment, for example.

 

The real reason he could not survive without food is the chemical compunds a human being needs to maintain the body. Even if he has "changed biologically" he can't synthethize heavier chemical elements from the ones abundant in air.

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The guy only claims he hasn't put anything in his system other than saliva, which I find to be utter BS, because you'll die after a day without water. And after I see some ribs with a piece of skin over them I'll believe that claim.

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because you'll die after a day without water.

 

Now that's BS. You can definitely survive longer than that without either food or water. Do you have any sources for your claim? It would take an individual in extremely bad physical shape/ in extreme conditions to die in a day without water.

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because you'll die after a day without water.

 

Now that's BS. You can definitely survive longer than that without either food or water. Do you have any sources for your claim? It would take an individual in extremely bad physical shape/ in extreme conditions to die in a day without water.

Minimum you can go 2 days without water, beyond that physique, willpower and environment are factor in determining how long before death.

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It entirely depends on how fast you lose water. No strenuous activity and cold temperatures would be a whole other story than hiking in the Sahara. The rule of thumb that I heard is a week or less for water, and a much as several months for food.

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If we ignore the biological complications and look at it from a physicist's point of view, he could maintain energy balance simbly by absorbing heat from his environment, for example.
Unless he's some sort of biological heat pump (now that would be something worth studying), I don't think so. It would have to be one hell of a "biological transformation" for him to go from being Krebs cycle-powered to photovoltaic, involving changes as insignificant as growing electric motors and/or electrochemical reactors. Plus, he doesn't look green to me, so that kinda rules out photosynthesis.

 

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