Liquid Breathing

Liquid breathing is a topic that's always fascinated me. I have always wondered what it would be like to breathe liquid and be able to breathe. Also, there is a massive cool factor involved in not breathing a gas.

Unfortunately it isn't as simple as just pumping oxygenated bubbles into water. I wish. Instead, you have to make complex-ticated (it is so a word) flurocarbon chains that can both trap oxygen and release it into the lungs' aveoli.

My friend (who declined to join this blog for some reason) has just asked me a question while I'm typing:

Why can't you just breathe liquid oxygen?

I hope I don't have to draw you a pretty picture of your lungs freezing solid, as my friend here would have it. No. No funny comments either.
Anyway, I would like to one day breathe a liquid. Although, even with the methods here today, it causes cancer, cuts, bleeding, tissue death and clotting. Also, death. Now they can use it on babies for up to 72 hours and actually improving lung function, after which they lived long and healthy live (god I hope one is a smoker - how terribly ironic of fate.

I'm off. Cya.