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Cyborg, or not to Cyborg?

Started by Tonitrus, January 28, 2014, 10:43:47 AM

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Would you implant/replace your healthy fleshy bits with cybernetics?

Jack me up!
8 (38.1%)
I like my fleshy bits, thank you.
0 (0%)
Only if the fleshy bit broke (i.e. therapeutic replacements).
12 (57.1%)
Only if the new parts are based on Jaron's parts.
1 (4.8%)

Total Members Voted: 21

CountDeMoney

Quote from: garbon on January 28, 2014, 08:43:11 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on January 28, 2014, 07:50:33 PM
A penile replacement with deployable JDAM tail fins would be kinda cool.

For ripping open an orifice? :unsure:

I suppose it kinda defeats the purpose of avoiding collateral damage re: circular probability error, doesn't it? :hmm:

Oops.

jimmy olsen

In 15-20 years you'll just be able to get a new limb or organ cloned, no need for mechanical replacements.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

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Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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DontSayBanana

Quote from: jimmy olsen on January 29, 2014, 04:03:22 AM
In 15-20 years you'll just be able to get a new limb or organ cloned, no need for mechanical replacements.

That's an unusually pessimistic projection for you, Tim.

Way I see it, to replace a limb, we need to grow bone, muscle, flesh, nerve tissue, and arterial pathways- so we're already 60 percent there.
Experience bij!

Siege

Mono, technology grows exponentially. You are thinking linearly. Within your lifetime we will do thinks that you now believe impossible.


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Iormlund

The exponential pattern doesn't necessarily work in medical applications, though. We need to test shit on animals and humans, and that process cannot be accelerated in such a way.