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It's possible we'll be getting another kind of olympic games - for the tech-enhanced athletes. Maybe even funded by prosthetic companies to show off cybernetics of something It's called the Paralympics. :wink: No matter how much of a "technological aid" a prosthesis is, the O2 consumption...

Actually, I flipped my numbers wrong-side up in my previous post. If 80% of Americans proclaim themselves Christian and 95% have premarital sex, roughly 100% of the Christians are secretly hoping they're the only ones ignoring their church's teachings in favor of their sex drives. Now that one soun...

So... 95% of Americans have had premarital sex and 80% of Americans say they're bible-believing, world-in-six-days, evolution-is-the-devil's-theory Christians. Work the numbers out and it means roughly 75% of Christians are hypocrits. I dunno... sounds a bit low to me. :twisted: ACtually, it means ...

So... 95% of Americans have had premarital sex and 80% of Americans say they're bible-believing, world-in-six-days, evolution-is-the-devil's-theory Christians. Work the numbers out and it means roughly 75% of Christians are hypocrits. I dunno... sounds a bit low to me. :twisted: I don't know about ...

So... 95% of Americans have had premarital sex and 80% of Americans say they're bible-believing, world-in-six-days, evolution-is-the-devil's-theory Christians. Work the numbers out and it means roughly 75% of Christians are hypocrits. I dunno... sounds a bit low to me.

Sea Skimmer wrote:<snip> this guy wouldn't be doing this without modern running shoes.

Terry Fox did pretty much that one two old-fashioned tennis shoes, one of them attached to a very low-tech above-knee artificial leg, in the 70's.

More than a few hand transplant recipients have expressed regret and three of them have opted to have the transplanted hand removed. I had heard only one of them opted for removal. One is enough, to be honest. Even if they aren't all successful, some of them are and some recipients have expressed g...

I'm sure the several recipients of successful hand transplants and that lady in France with her new face would disagree with your opinion. More than a few hand transplant recipients have expressed regret and three of them have opted to have the transplanted hand removed. A new, limited-function han...

Invictus ChiKen wrote:Damn...

I keep having visions of some wealthy asshole paying for her arms to get a "Transplant"

As I see it, limb transplants aren't worth the risks.

Isn't there a new 15,000 dollar prosthetic out there that moves almost exactly like a human hand, can hold a wineglass, and can crush a skull? I'm pretty sure I heard about it on the news a few months back; it was pretty nice. This woman should get a set of these so she can go on a rampage througho...

My major reason for going into engineering is to work on robotics so I can help develop better prostheses (someone else will have to do the neurobiology end of that). ...well, okay, it's also 'cuz I want awesome Ghost-in-the-Shell-style robotic limbs. But mainly it's the prosthetics. I'm seriously ...

Mrs. Mejía deserves one-huge-payout (tm) from these idiots. Her life will never be the same, but a truckload of cash should go a long way to make her more comfortable. In other news, prosthetics are a joke, even today, with microprocessors and other gadgets. They're cumbersome, uncomfortable and now...

The last time Bill O'Really? made that mistake, Phil Donohue kicked his ass all over his little TV clubhouse for him. A most embarassing spectacle. Donohue kicking him around isn't that impressive considering he got his butt kicked by David "60% of what you say is crap" Letterman. I mean....

Hmmm ... sympathy meter for the slashing victim is reading ... zero. Sorry, but I can't work up sympathy for one of those fucktards who parks in a handicapped parking spot because he's too goddamned lazy to walk a few extra metres. It's a smidge extreme, as reactions go, but I admit I've thought al...

Surlethe wrote:

LauraG wrote:

Surlethe wrote:PS- Vargo, are you "LauraG"?

That would be me.

Why?

The exact same article and link were posted on the eteamrevolution boards, and I thought he might be masquerading as "LauraG"; apparently not.

Nope.

Surlethe wrote:PS- Vargo, are you "LauraG"?

That would be me.

Why?

"I think it's wiser for them to stay out of these issues so that they don't offend conservatives and people of faith." Followed immediately by: To these companies, she says: "If you want my money, support some of my causes." Translation: This woman thinks it's wrong to have a po...

So now they're going to try and make laws about tact?

You know, this 'political correctness' thing is really going way too far in the US. It should've been obvious when someone came up with the idea of calling short people "vertically challenged" and nobody laughed.

I managed to get through a couple of pages in the "Atheist" section, but all I saw were typical arguments. The bible says this and that, but if it doesn't you're interpreting it wrong, morals come from god, etc. It's very telling how he goes into this pseudo-logical monologue explaining ho...

I have to say it's one of the more interesting takes I've seen on the matter. It shies away from the commonly heard "ID is not science" or the "There is no debate" (both are true, though) and steps into the very territory ID pretends to use in its favor, but it's not the morality...

From: The New York Times Editorial-Op/Ed Section NYT-Editorial Observer Grasping the Depth of Time as a First Step in Understanding Evolution By VERLYN KLINKENBORG Published: August 23, 2005 Last month a team of paleontologists announced that it had found several fossilized dinosaur embryos that wer...

darthdavid wrote:Or realistic sex robots.

Sure. I guess it depends on which one's more useful to you.

This would be very interesting for prosthetics.

Doesn't matter whether man created it or God created it, it's still a form of life which did not evolve. It was still engineered. It was still created by an intelligent being. Therefore, there is no conflict. Not as I understand it. Again, creationists don't argue just that humans were created. The...

wolveraptor wrote:Unless you mean creating a totally different animal with capabilities equal to humans. Kick ass dude.

That's the basic idea as I understand it... to eventually design and build new living creatures from the basic building blocks of DNA. They might even have a super-size option on it, too.