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dcartist
07/10/09

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Exciting to see hope, any kind of hope in this area.
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Kamen Rider
07/10/09

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I remember that day. I'm very sorry. I didn't mean to thrust it that hard up your pie hole. You have to admit, good times.............good times...
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NurseDave
07/10/09

@LouisJebber: Ummm, pie hole is the mouth.
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GarciaConcern
07/10/09

@NurseDave: Unless your a cow.
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NurseDave
07/11/09

@GarciaConcern: Strong point.
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OMG! Ponies!
07/10/09

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I was a cyborg once. But the doctors were able to dislodge the vibrator from my rectum.
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Hello Mister Walrus
07/10/09

@OMG! Ponies!: Ah, sweet memories of our time together.
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PSyChO_MaRi0
07/10/09

@OMG! Ponies!:
Wow, I don't even know what to say about that one.
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nutbastard
07/10/09

@OMG! Ponies!:

unfortunately, they never recovered the puppy that preceded said vibrator.

R.I.P Spelunker The Third. In our lives for a while - In our rectums forever.
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BobFraggle
07/10/09

@PSyChO_MaRi0:I'm glad it all came out well in the end?
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Wireless Joe
07/10/09

@OMG! Ponies!: This is the desired result of bumping starred comments to the front?

/Still can't get them to load in FireFox, btw.
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GarciaConcern
07/10/09

@Wireless Joe: I find it hard to believe that someone out there does not find Ponies absolutely friggin' hilarious. If he didn't have a star already, he should get one for that comment alone.
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Wireless Joe
07/10/09

@GarciaConcern:

Someone is angling for a star of his own, eh?
;)
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GlenTen
07/10/09

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Is that Ripley from Aliens? Or Metroid?
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Ramrod-the-Destroyer
07/10/09

@GlenTen: Metroid would be Ridley. I doubt she wants to be a 50 ft. tall dragon creature.
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GlenTen
07/10/09

@Ramrod-the-Destroyer: OH right, Ridley. Oops. Well I guess that answers my question. :)
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Curves
07/10/09

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This type of research and the positive results are the BEST real world application of science and technology. This is why so many people get into science and medicine in the first place. No more satisfying thing your career than to make real, positive impact on the world and humanity. Hats off to them.

(And hats off to Giz Tech for finally making it possible for me to log in today.)
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TheSonOfKrypton
07/10/09

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It literally looks as if something is about to burst out of her back....Gotta hate scars...
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OMG! Ponies!
07/10/09

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She can look forward to a lifetime of being stopped by mall security, airport patdowns, and never being able to make microwave popcorn without pissing herself.
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max40watt
07/10/09

@OMG! Ponies!: Luckily the titanium they use generally doesn't set off metal detectors.
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Eavangel
07/10/09

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I wonder if she feels heavier or more weighed down with all that titanium. My dad has a titanium hip joint but he says he doesn't notice it.

One step closer to Ghost in the Shell... when can we start uploading our brains into computers? (not that i want to... i like my brain) =]
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jrghoull
07/10/09

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i wonder how far away we are from bioenhancement technology. Here we have a girl that will hopefully soon walk again...but G*g knows that the scientist and engineers wont just leave things at that. improved flexibility and improvements in capability as well.

Sadly such upgrades are a relatively long way away, but the fact that they will happen is mind boggling. Its probably best that it is far away though. We have alot of moral and ethical questions to ask before such technology is introduced to the general public.
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PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:
07/10/09

@jrghoull: I agree with you. The ethical issue will be the main thing that would keep the bioenhancement thing in check. I think as long as they are being used for life savings methods or to enhance a person's quality of life (i.e. giving a blind person the chance to have vision) then it will probably be ok. If you are trying to enhance your senses or anything like that, you run into many moral issues. Think of how many sports players would try to get something to enhance their reflexes. It's a touchy subject.
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nutbastard
07/10/09

@Purple Monkey Dishwasher:

"Think of how many sports players would try to get something to enhance their reflexes."

just start a new league where anything goes - steroids, cybernetic upgrades, whatever. keep the regular leagues as they are. like stock car racing and F1.
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jrghoull
07/10/09

@Purple Monkey Dishwasher:

going even further...i assume that everyone would simply love to be better in every physical possible sense. I wouldn't mind being able to run a mile in just over 3 minutes, lift several hundred pounds with ease, be able to see in the dark, etc. the list could go on to implants that go well beyond anything human such wings.

i was about to try and post what the moral implications of that might be. but know what? i'm sure as hell not bright enough to truly begin covering that question.

I understand exactly what you are saying about the sports players...but i think that they should be allowed to use sterioids.
the point of sports is for them to be able to do their very best. if they are all hopped up on roids/implants/whatever, then relative to one another it is an even playing field.

but i digress...

tell me dude, what specific moral issues do you think will happen or could happen as a result of implants? the generalist one being if you replace virtually everything are you still human.
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Vishus
07/12/09

@Purple Monkey Dishwasher: Or what if one of the scientist/engineers got drunk and started giving people hydraulic penises.
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Poop Cooper
07/10/09

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FTA: This is inside of her.

I imagine an x-ray of a terminator might not look too different.
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PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:
07/10/09

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At what point does a human become a cyborg because if it's just whenever you have any electronic devices implanted in your body, then any person with a pacemaker is a cyborg. I believe that in the future there will be more and more devices which will complement/replace/enhance some of our human systems I don't know how far that will go. For instance, I recently read about blind people who were able to see certain shades due to the implantation of some sort of CMOS chip which was hooked up to the brain.
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bededog
07/10/09

@Purple Monkey Dishwasher: I'd say about half of your body has to be to electronic to be considered a cyborg. I also think you need to have some conscious control over the electronic devices to be a cyborg. So things like peacemakers which work on their own wouldn't count.
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Poop Cooper
07/10/09

@Purple Monkey Dishwasher: I can't help but be reminded of a very good Ted Talks that addresses this very topic (viewable here.) The basic premise for those of you that don't have 20 minutes to kill at work like the rest of us is that hardware is 1.0 - biological regeneration is 2.0.

Screw the pacemaker - give me the whole heart.
Edit: Typos stink, but God I love this new edit feature.
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Kaiser-Machead
07/10/09

@Purple Monkey Dishwasher: They prefer the term Augmented Americans. The nerve of some people.
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Hello Mister Walrus
07/10/09

@Purple Monkey Dishwasher: By common definition, she is already a cyborg. Her physical or physiological processes are augmented by artificial means.
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nutbastard
07/10/09

@bededog:

i've always thought about the line as being at one-third... but then again, if i had just one fully robotic arm, i would consider myself a cyborg.
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
07/10/09

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Chaank: Hard tech, for a hard world.

Welcome to the Hardman project.
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