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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2...ecome-reality/
Not far from head transplants to heads-in-jar...
Futurama called it...
Not far from head transplants to heads-in-jar...
Human Head Transplants Are A'Comin...
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If i get a black body do I qualify for affirmative action and using the n-word? or does the head alone determine ethnicity? If a male tranny has his head put on a chick's body is he still a tranny or is he/she cis now? We've gotta come up with some guidelines for the classification of this shit. =P
tad10
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We already have face transplants. So you can get one to match your new body.
If you've got the money...
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iannis
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I mean really, what are the chances that the nerves are going to fuse correctly? It's kind of important that they do that. That spinal cord is nothing but one giant tangle of nervous fiber and tissues. Even with magical nanosurgery, it's not like these things come with labels.
You'd piss yourself trying to rotate your wrist, assuming that you could breathe. And who has any idea if your heart would even work. Who knows if a brain past a certain stage of development is even capable of that sort of elasticity?
You'd piss yourself trying to rotate your wrist, assuming that you could breathe. And who has any idea if your heart would even work. Who knows if a brain past a certain stage of development is even capable of that sort of elasticity?
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that was my thought. 'chemofused' and 'ultra sharp knife' sound like "technology not invented yet".
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Or you can just read the fuckin' article which tells you there's absolutely no basis in science for this
We've never ever, not once, not in our wildest dreams ever reconnected a severed spinal column. Not even in so much as a raccoon or squirrel.
And that's the relatively easy part.
And that's the relatively easy part.
The beagles will be first. They're always first. They give you that loving look and lick you even after you shock their testicles and kill their brothers and sisters.
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Oh, it's insanity but it's not delusion. I think the problem is that no human surgeon is going to be able to do it. At best they're going to be able to plan and oversee it. The scale is too small, the tissue is both too specific and too delicate, and the scope is too large.
But if you can find a practical way to keep the tissue alive and if you can find a method which catalyzes axon regrowth and synapse formation under the conditions which you have to work in to prevent death -- that's a good first step to AutoDoc3000.
It's kind of insane, but most good science is at least kind of insane.
But if you can find a practical way to keep the tissue alive and if you can find a method which catalyzes axon regrowth and synapse formation under the conditions which you have to work in to prevent death -- that's a good first step to AutoDoc3000.
It's kind of insane, but most good science is at least kind of insane.