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Boy in the Bubble

By Manila Ryce
Published Thursday, May 4th, 2006, 12:24 pm
Filed under: Entertainment, Society/Culture

i can do thatDavid Blaine must’ve been an annoying kid. Everytime he wanted attention he’d either go without dinner or try to drown in the bathtub. Now things are different for David. He’s got a much bigger audience and fancy props to play with. His latest stunt is to spend an entire week submerged in a water-filled sphere. Apparently he has both an air and food supply. So, how is this magic you ask? It’s not. However, at the end of the seven days he will attempt to hold his breath for over 8 minutes and 58 seconds to break the world record.

Now there are two reasons why I say he’s cheating. One, it could just be an illusion (remember, he’s a magician) in which Blaine is using liquid oxygen instead of water. If so he could go far beyond the world record since he wouldn’t really be holding his breath. Unfortunately, I doubt he’s clever enough to pull that off. The more likely scenario would be that he actually is holding his breath, but that the week leading up to the stunt has significantly aided him in doing so. Spending a week in a virtually weightless environment causes muscle atrophy. After just a few days in zero gravity, astronauts lose muscle tone and calcium from their bones. Muscles require a great amount of oxygen, so after spending a week doing nothing with them Blaine will not need much to power his body. And since the average red blood cell has a lifespan of 4 months Blaine will have a higher capacity to deliver oxygen inkyle did it first relation to his body mass than he did when he started. In theory, a week in the bubble will help more than it hurts. If I were the person holding the current record I’d be pissed. By the way, does anyone else notice the eerie similarity this stunt has to the South Park episode featuring Blaine?
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3 Responses to “Boy in the Bubble”

  1. How does this man actually make money? How does he keep getting in the news? I smell a big conspiracy.

    Kaziglu Bey
    05/4/06 at 9:41 pm

  2. The only thing I can think of is that he must be a diversion created by the government (like Bin Laden or Ryan Seacrest) to keep our minds distracted.

    Administrator
    05/6/06 at 1:59 am

  3. Hahaha, he failed. I’ve always known there was a God! Now I also know he’s not David Blaine.

    Administrator
    05/9/06 at 12:57 am

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