Better Than Blood?

"A man-made, pure-white compound called Oxycyte carries oxygen 50 times as effectively as our own blood. Researchers are betting that it’s the best way to treat America’s leading cause of accidental death: traumatic brain injury."

"Oxycyte is the newest product in a family of compounds known as artificial blood. The search for a synthetic substitute for human blood began at least as early as the 19th century, when doctors actually tried using milk to replenish blood loss. "

Milk?!...I mean seriously milk???! But according to Brown University's Division of Biology and Medicine's Synthetic Blood website they state that:

"The earliest experiments with blood substitutes were motivated by the fact that most human-to-human blood transfusions were unsuccessful due to a lack of understanding of blood groups. Unfortunately, people's reactions to transfused animal milk turned out to be very severe.

mid 1870’s: experiments with alternatives to human blood - milk from cows, goats, humans; severe reactions."

But didn't we also see this same type of white artificial internal fluid in 1979 when Science Officer, Ash of the Nostromo turned out to be a malicious android and got his head knocked off .



Spurting gallons of white"android blood" everywhere, truly pretty gross. Turns out though that this had its own dairy connection too but only for close ups.

"Ash's blood is colored water. Milk was not used as it would have gotten very smelly very quickly under the hot studio lights. Milk was used though for the close-up of his innards, along with pasta and glass marbles."