Implants Allow the Blind to See

gihan_ripper writes "Neurosurgeon Kenneth Smith has performed a revolutionary operation on St Louis resident Cheri Robertson, connecting a camera directly to her optic nerve. The rig is in principle similar to Geordi La Forge's visor, albeit in very rudimentary form. At present, the 'image' consists of a number of white dots, as on an LED display. There are also governmental restrictions on this research, forcing Kenneth and his team to fly to Portugal to carry out the operation. If this technology takes off, the future will be bright for the sight-impaired."

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The miraculous eggplant

[Miss Emily Litella]

When I was a little girl, the only thing eggplants were good for was eating. But then disgraceful women started using them to make their chests bigger. It's an outrage I tell you, an outrage! Do you know how many starving children an eggplant can feed? And now we find out that those same eggplants could be used to help the blind. Someday eggplants will be able to cure cancer, but there won't be any left because Pamela Anderson used them all up.

Re:Wow

[Jeremi]

Did you forget that it requires an act of Congress to declare war, or do you just prefer to let the legislative branch delude you so they can get re-elected?

Of course, the Legislative branch was told in no uncertain terms by the Executive branch that Saddam definitely had WMDs, he was definitely planning to use them against the US, and that Iraq was definitely an immediate, significant, and growing threat to our country's population.

So if you want to accuse the legislature of believing what the Bush administration told them and not doing their own independent research to verify it all first, go ahead. But imagine you were in their position... the President of the U.S., who has access to all classified U.S. intelligence, is telling you over and over again that according to his extremely credible sources, all of the above is true, and that if we don't invade right now "the smoking gun may be a mushroom cloud". This, two years after September 11th. What would you have done in that scenario?

I'd say the legislature got punked, along with the rest of us.