CO2 must also be removed. that's probably what ultimately killed the rabbits.

Besides overloading the red blood cells with CO2 and preventing the removal from the cells, it also screws up the PH of the blood really quick. I assume that with this process it could get bad enough to lead to shock.

Now what would be really cool would be if they could come up with a sold-state exchanger for CO2 to O2. Something like a fuel cell in reverse - create a chemical exchange from an electrical power. Implant that into a body and it could run on batteries instead of breathing. But I don't think that technology in that form currently exists. They have "rebreathers" but those are huge space-suit-size affairs and operate on a far more involved process.

But I bet someone's working on it right now. Probably several someones.

I'm confused; who was suing whom? This was a British couple in Britain or... What?

Let's face it... the particle physicists make all this stuff up. Somehow they figured out how to use particle colliders to synthesise crack cocaine, and ever since then the stuff they've been coming out with has been ever more fantastical.

/, is a lot like /. but with a pause to think before replying...

It's not about trumping about parental rights. A school is the kid's parent, legally, while the kid is in school, for most purposes. It's called "in loco parentis".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_loco_parentis

When I was in high school, I read basically everything I could find about the law and schools. There's a lot of things a school can do, because of this principle, that normal companies or governmental institutions cannot do (like restrict free speech, or give out painkillers to kids) that appear to be unconstitutional, but have been upheld by the supreme court.