National Geographic: Incredible Human Machine
2007 · 120 MIN · IMDB 7.6 · 239 VOTES · DIR. Arthur F. Binkowski, Chad Cohen
Overview
National Geographic: Incredible Human Machine takes viewers on a two-hour journey through an ordinary, and extraordinary, day-in-the-life of the human machine. With stunning high-definition footage, radical scientific advances and powerful firsthand accounts, Incredible Human Machine plunges deep into the routine marvels of the human body. Through 10,000 blinks of an eye, 20,000 breaths of air and 100,000 beats of the heart, see the amazing and surprising, even phenomenal inner workings of our bodies on a typical day. And explore striking feats of medical advancement, from glimpses of an open-brain surgery to real-time measurement of rocker Steven Tyler's vocal chords.
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00:03:59 about a pound-and-a-half's-worth each year
00:08:23 Some five million of them.
00:12:42 our brains continually compare new data with
00:16:21 They give us balance, telling us where we are in space at any given moment.
00:20:17 which excite nerve cells
00:23:36 (Sings high note)
00:26:50 After some two hours of vocal gymnastics
00:30:32 waiting to sniff it out.
00:34:13 I was put on this heart transplant list
00:37:58 these pilots routinely push their bodies to extremes.
00:41:28 In a single drop of blood
00:46:07 For that we pass into the 20-foot "dis-assembly" line of the small intestine
00:50:16 requires no fewer than 200 skeletal muscles.
00:53:31 We can bring the ends together and fix it.
00:57:17 light enough to defy gravity - however briefly
01:01:17 Yeah, don't hook your toes.
01:04:32 that instruct the surrounding cells and tissues to heal in a specific way.
01:08:24 Soon enough the heart beats faster, blood pressure rises.
01:12:30 As the weeks pass, cells start to specialise and forms begin to take shape.
01:16:34 eyes and ears, skin and bones, heart and muscles.
01:19:41 By imaging the brain before and during surgery
01:23:11 Pain does have its place.
01:27:01 and they are virtuosos in many respects.
01:30:54 After mapping the speech areas of his brain