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
00:08:29 As the new hair cells divide
00:12:52 and vision is born.
00:16:49 Here, three fluid-filled tubes work like carpenters'levels to help keep us balanced.
00:20:50 I need a girl like an open book
00:24:12 This is Steven Tyler's voice box
00:27:30 We wouldn't survive much more than a couple of minutes if we didn't.
00:31:19 Every breath we take delivers oxygen to our trillions of power-hungry cells
00:35:08 We don't know what they do, but they seem to know what's required.
00:39:02 it actually has huge ramifications.
00:43:00 and absorb their chemical building blocks into our own flesh and blood.
00:47:43 and billions of bacteria work to break down the remaining contents.
00:51:28 They link up, squeezing together like cogs on a wheel.
00:55:01 We're using those nerves now to eventually make his arm move.
00:59:24 while others do the opposite and whisk away old layers.
01:02:53 Number one: I hope to be out of pain.
01:06:43 just getting two incredible machines to reproduce at all is challenge enough.
01:10:59 They need each other.
01:14:52 As women around the globe can attest, getting to this point is no easy task.
01:18:39 Don't sit up.
01:22:10 Just picking up groceries or driving a car can be excruciating.
01:26:05 under a frigid waterfall in Toyama, Japan.
01:30:07 and one another.
400:00:00 blood cells are constantly patrolling