Comments on: Blue People

By: Araxie

Araxie — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:35:50 +0000

Wow, since Megan’s comment 3 years ago, there is STILL an add for silver supplement underneath this article. Crazy!

This story is sad, but fascinating.

By: Flora

Flora — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:14:19 +0000

I’m descended from the Blue Fugates, though unfortunately most of the web genealogy is incorrect. There is absolutely no evidence that “Fugate” is a French name or where the original Martin Fugate came from. I actually believe through my own genealogical research that this was a recessive gene carried down through a mostly Scottish line of families who immigrated around the same time to America whose ancestral homes are almost all located in northern Scotland. It really gets my hide when people keep repeating that Martin Fugate is French or came from France. One person must have said that a long time ago and it’s been repeated so often no one actually studies the veracity of the claim.

By: Lola

Lola — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:42:02 +0000

“I think I just blue myself.”

Tobias Funke

By: old hippy chick

old hippy chick — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:18:47 +0000

And of course, the guy pictured in the first panel is a Blue Meany, from Yellow Submarine…

By: JP

JP — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:37:31 +0000

Yes he is. I looked it up myself right after my last post. But now we both know.

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:50:55 +0000

No, but thanks to Google, I found out he is an Andorian, from the planet Andoria.

By: JP

JP — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:53:11 +0000

Thanks! Do you know his name?

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:49:38 +0000

He’s an alien from Star Trek: The Original Series.

By: JP

JP — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:11:08 +0000

Question: who’s the blue guy with the white hair and antennae (pictured in first image strip, second from left)?

Jerry

By: wl

wl — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:22:37 +0000

Serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely.

While reading this article I learned about Methemoglobinemia, which I had never heard of before, so I read a bit more about that in the Serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely.

While reading this article I learned about Methemoglobinemia, which I had never heard of before, so I read a bit more about that at the healthatoz site cited in your info:

And I discovered this factoid:

“Treatment
For acquired methemoglobinemia the typical treatment is with methylene blue.
This is administered with an IV over a five-minute period and results are
typically seen within 20 minutes. Methylene blue reduces methemoglobin back to
hemoglobin.”

In other words, methylene blue is able to donate some electrons to the
mis-folded hemoglobin cells which allows the hemoglobin to resume the proper
form that allows them to carry the oxygen molecule.

And this reminded me of a news item that I had seen some time ago:

“Potential Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s Cure Found In Century-old Drug”

published online at the Science Daily website regarding “Methylene blue”.

So maybe the reason Methlene Blue help’s to prevent the degenerative diseases of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases is that it corrects mis-conformed hemoglobin cells and allows hemoglobin to better carry oxygen to the cells and carry carbon dioxide and other waste products away from the brain cells, thus allowing the brain cells to be healthier??? Just wondering…: