Comments by "kd1s" (@kd1s) on "Why You Didn't Die at Birth - Smarter Every Day 42" video.

  1. If you really want to get freaked - now you can 'breathe' without pulmonary action. Yep - 30 to 45 minutes they can oxygenate blood without using the lungs. Pretty cool huh? It's a DARPA project.
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  2. Oh and another thing. The reason the right side of the heart is so much smaller than the left: The right side is what circulates blood to the lungs and has to be low pressure. The left side pumps to the body and so is a high pressure system.
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