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What Happens When Your Own Limb Is Almost Good Enough?
derekmead writes: While the media might focus on prosthetics, the technology and techniques involved in limb salvage have advanced tremendously, too, spurred in large part by America's recent military conflicts. Now, when a soldier or civilian faces a brutal limb injury, they have choices—save the limb, or amputate. Be a limb salvage patient, or an amputee. Reconstruct the limb you were born with, out of the pieces you have left over, or lose that limb altogether. And that choice is, increasingly, a really difficult one.
I think I would have taken amputation.
Case in point: You don't need legs to skate or surf or do gymnastics or swing like Spider-Man.
You can change your mind and take amputation later, you can't change your mind and get your hand/leg back. With the things that stem cell research are pointing to, you might be able to regenerate your lost parts either way.
Someday there will be little robots that swarm out after an explosion to quickly gather up all the people bits, identify which bits belong to which person, 3D print any missing or uselessly damaged parts, and glue them all back together, all within 5 minutes before the brain starts to suffer from hypoxia.
Imagine getting blown to bits one day, then the next day you're right back on the front line.
Maybe they could put a few of these into airliners also, made out of the same stuff as the black boxes.
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After the transfer, what are you going to do with your old body?
Have sex with it, then eat it.
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