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Spider Bite Allows Man To Walk Again
Manastorm writes "A man who was wheelchair bound due to a motorcycle accident twenty years ago gained the ability to walk again after being bitten by a recluse spider. 'I can't wait to start dancing,' he said as he looks forward to a full recovery after experiencing what some call a 'true miracle.'" I think we all know how this story is going to end. I hope The Sinister Six have been practicing.
No genetic engineering?
What a let down...
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
a spiderman analogy gets beaten about the head, neck, chest, and shoulders with a rocket-propelled spaghetti launcher.
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"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
I'm waiting for the Mythbuster's episode. First we hobble Adam, Jamie and Grant (who can be the control). Then we inject them all with deadly spider venom. If they survive, we see if the spider venom helps them to walk again. Grant gets no venom. Whether they survive or not, it's entertaining and about as scientific as the rest of their testing.
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This just in: Spider bite cures laziness!
You think you're so smart, but I haven't RTFA. Therefore I don't know if you're lying or not, therefore in my world, this man MAY be spiderman.
I live in a world where spiderman is possibly real, along with santa and the easter bunny. All you have is stupid reality.
The lesson here is clear: women should not drive.
What's wrong with Santa? We know St. Nick was real (so we know there are charitable people) and we know wormholes are real (so we know how to travel around the globe in an evening).
The Easter Bunny is a modern corruption of the Eostre hare, which seems to have involved throwing eggs at Bugs in the morning, or something like that.
Spider threads are one of the strongest organic materials known. If we assume the thread could be scaled to the thickness of a typical hemp rope and that the strength scaled with it, it might just about be strong enough to pull building over with, never mind scaling them.
It's not about these superheros not being possible - clearly the science says otherwise. It's about them not having happened yet. Which, since the tales all come from the past, means time travel will have to be invented along with them.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
His doctor became agitated and in formed the press
"Listen bud! He's got radioactive blood!"
In the not too distant future, next Sunday A.D.
Brown Recluse venom isn't neurotoxic, it's necrotic.
. . . for my family's great aunt's mobility problem: She can't move an inch without telling everyone in earshot, who doesn't want to hear, a complete medical history of her bowels and various other organs.
If I can convince her that a bunch of spider bites are the solution to her real and imagined medical problems, that should have that problem sorted.
Maybe AIG should give these spiders out, instead of bonuses?
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Woosh. Really? Spiderman ISN'T real? Why haven't I read about this on slashdot before?
Do you filter out articles posted by kdawson?
Yeah, but how many people on /. believe in Jesus as opposed to Spiderman?
"When you have eliminated the unacceptable, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truthiness" - Holmes
Of course. From the time the article is published until the point in time that you read the article, this man is juxtaposed between the state of BEING Spiderman, and the state of NOT BEING Spiderman.
This is an excellent a thought experiment that illustrates the problems with the Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum Commenting.
have you been seen on slash?
Let's get this thing to bite a pig!
SPIDER PIG
SPIDER PIG
Does whatever a SPIDER PIG does
Can he swing
From a web
No he cant
He's a pig
LOOK OOOUUUTTT!!!!
He is a SPIDER PIG!!
You're welcome for getting that stuck in your head for the rest of the day...
You are using English. Please learn the difference between loose and lose; they're, there, and their; your and you're.
Arrested for domestic violence? My god, this man really is spiderman!
Except that the Recluse spider venom isn't particularly neuro-toxic at all. Its primary toxin simply aggregates platelets and white blood cells to clog capillaries, which causes necrotic flesh wounds.
well maybe it worked like that BEFORE the spider got zapped with high energy gamma rays, but afterwards things were probably a bit different
this man is juxtaposed between the state of BEING Spiderman, and the state of NOT BEING Spiderman.
Schrodinger's Bug?
Do not mock my vision of impractical footwear
the cookies are always gone...
The spiders eat them.