>>12163378>hat is Sci-Fi's fascination with these (often) "magical" healing tanks full of super-healing goo? Whats fascinating about baths that heal anything, gee I don't know anon, maybe this has been a thing since the greeks?
>Is there any realism to it?Yes and no. I can put you in a totally aseptic, isotonic, isothermal, isoeveryhing water tank and you can probably be okay for a while, and maybe those perfect conditions might help healing. But at some point you are going to get tired of being inmovilized and floating while breathing from a respirator and feeling more and more soft as all your tissues start to swell and change.
Also, what's the point? Perfect distribution of medicine? Why? You have a vascular system and 100 ways to skip it and also to achieve that you will require much more medicine since you are diluting it in a literal tank of water, perfect stable condtions? Ok yes, water is a dampener and isolator yes, but you would be already in a room under controlled conditions in another fluid called air, so there is no need for such a heavy thing.
Noiw, there is a context in which they might make sense: As artificial uteruses, since after conception the cells have to be in a fluid or gravity will squish them to the ground and they can replicate in all directions. But let me tell you that tthey wouldn't look like tanks but rather like plastic bags that can increase their voilume and form accordingly to the forming body insiide whily optimizing fluid volume.
>What liquid do you think is in these pods?Serologic serum, anything else will affect the water equilibrium between the body and the medium and be counterproductive.
