Event 1 (Fantastic Voyage)

 Fantastic Voyage was an entertaining film and was extremely relevant to this week's discussion of art, science, and medicine. In the movie, there is a man who becomes injured. He is diagnosed with a brain clot. There was no possible way to remove the clot and save the man. A team was assembled to be shrunk down inside of a submarine and injected into the man’s bloodstream. From the inside, their goal was to remove the clot and to get out of the man’s body within one hour.


Initially this film reminded me of a show called, “The Magic School Bus”. There was an episode with a very similar plot. The class got into a magic school bus and took a trip inside a classmates body to find out why they were sick. 

Submarine entering bloodstream from “Fantastic Voyage”(left), “The Magic School Bus” (right)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_School_Bus_(TV_series)


These two films present similar ideas about being able to enter the body in order to treat an illness. Today technology has reached the point where this is nearly if not already possible. Although shrinking humans inside of submarines or school buses and allowing them to navigate the body may be unrealistic, nanotechnology is bringing a similar idea into reality. Instead of sending microscopic people into the body, we are now sending microscopic robots into the body to perform various jobs. These micro-robots are able to complete very specific tasks. They are even capable of performing tasks such as what was needed in the “Fantastic Voyage” or “The Magic School Bus”.

Proof of attendance



References

Fleischer, Richard, director. Fantastic Voyage. 1966.

The Magic School Bus. 1994.

“The Magic School Bus (TV series).” Wikipedia, 2021, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_School_Bus_(TV_series). Accessed 23 April 2021.

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