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Post by daft alchemist on Jan 16, 2007 17:49:46 GMT -5
Ok, those parents, those would totally be my parents if I were to suddenly die with a crap-tastic grade in any class. They may not hate me and dig me up for it, but they would certainly be splitting their mourning time with a lot of "she should've worked harder" time.
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Post by Cobra5 on Jan 16, 2007 21:50:47 GMT -5
Wow. Ok, two things- Thats pretty deep. We are reminded of the prices we have to pay, ethically, to get technologies that save lives. I mean, organ transplants were once to grotesque and unheard of that they had to be done in secret, and now, they save lives daily. Is this a continuation, a natural progression of our will to save lives, or is this going too far? And two, I am one step closer to having a robot body, I can feel it.
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Post by zoner on Jan 16, 2007 22:06:49 GMT -5
Scientific ethics are not a suggestion. im sickened. end quote.
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Post by daft alchemist on Jan 16, 2007 23:11:37 GMT -5
Could someone write a summary because the article was too long for my currently ADD brain to care about.
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Post by BugHunter on Jan 17, 2007 2:10:49 GMT -5
Scientists and doctors in secrete labs around the world are trying to be able to transplant an entire head onto another body. One already succeeded in putting an entirely decapitated monkey's head on another's body and it still lived. They're also able to keep dog heads without bodies alive using synthetic machines.
But on future notice, put some dang effort into your reading...
All this is like an extreme science fiction story and reminds me of the celebrity heads in Futurama. Its all kooorazzzee!!
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Post by daft alchemist on Jan 17, 2007 6:58:12 GMT -5
That reminds me of That Hideous Strength, but I'm guessing you guys haven't read it. It's the third of C.S. Lewis' space trilogy, the first book being Out of the Silent Planet. This weird freaking group of people take the head of the bad guy (who died in the second book), and hook it up to machines and stuff so that they can bring it back to life and bask in its genius/do its bidding sort of deal. It was the most disturbing sounding scene I've ever read. The head's movements aren't entirely balenced out like in actual life, and it drools all over the place because there's nowhere for the saliva to go except the floor.
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Post by Jalathas on Jan 18, 2007 6:08:13 GMT -5
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Post by BugHunter on Jan 18, 2007 10:07:58 GMT -5
Well the concept is a lot older than most people think. And nothing nowadays is original, everything is just recycled from the past. Like i just saw a really old film from Harlem in the 1920's where a tap dancer moon walked on stage. And yet people credit Jacko for inventing it.
But hey, its cool they got railguns now. Although this means in the future we can spread death and destruction but on an average man's budget *glee*
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Post by daft alchemist on Jan 18, 2007 10:11:35 GMT -5
See, but tap shoes don't have a lot of traction. They're made that way so it's easier to do various moves. If you wear tap shoes on a smooth surface, you can easily slip and fall. So I guess since Jackson wore regular shoes instead of tap shoes, it is a little more interesting that he was able to accomplish that.
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Post by zoner on Jan 18, 2007 18:07:25 GMT -5
Jackson learned it from musicians in New Orleans. Jazz musicians, i think. Still cool. Dudn't matter if you're the first to do it. Fact is, if you gain the ability to control thunder, it's freaking cool. Doesn't matter if someone in Asia did it 80 years ago.
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Post by BugHunter on Jan 18, 2007 19:14:47 GMT -5
Jacko with regular shoes? yeah right. But still doesn't mean he invented it. I dont know if i should laugh or run away if I saw Jacko with $20 shoes from Wal-Mart. And the point of the argument wasn't whether it was cool or not, but whether it was original or not, and it wasn't. Not that I won't complain about non-original stuff as long as it actually is really cool, since everything borrows something from somewhere. But it crosses the line into pompous stupidity if one says they're the first when obviously they're not.
And is anyone else bothered by the fact that weapons stronger than tomahawks can become cheap enough that even 3rd world countries can afford them in mass?
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Post by Jalathas on Jan 18, 2007 20:03:52 GMT -5
Not particularly. Since they said it would take 13 years for us to be able to implement it correctly, I assume it would take much longer for a less advanced country to develop and use it.
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Post by zoner on Jan 18, 2007 21:42:50 GMT -5
sorry, forgot to cut to the chase ( I do that sometimes-scatterbrained) people are star-struck. They see something amazing and it doesn't matter if it's original because it's-well, amazing. Micheal Jackson never actually claimed he was the first to do the moonwalk, did he? 'Cuz he was the one who told everyone where he learned it. And I don't think the reports called this an original idea
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Post by daft alchemist on Jan 18, 2007 22:08:06 GMT -5
Jene(SP?) Simmons claims to have first used the horns in relation to metal on some album cover, but it was actually the guy from Dio. His grandmother used to use it because she got it from whatever country she was born in...I forget. Anyway, he used it at concerts and now everybody knows the horns. Apparently, Jene found out that no one had ever bothered to copyright the abbreviation OJ for orange juice, so he bought the copyrights or something...I dunno if it's true, but that would be....really really pitiful and slightly humerous.
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Post by Jalathas on Jan 23, 2007 20:50:46 GMT -5
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