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1 posted on 08/01/2013 7:56:05 AM PDT by Red Badger
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This scene always made me think of Nuns.


2 posted on 08/01/2013 8:00:50 AM PDT by theDentist (FUBO; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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3 posted on 08/01/2013 8:01:27 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate." George F. Will)
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If they could take a stem cell and make it grow a complete body minus the brain they could then move a person’s brain/head to the new body and since the new body would have an ample supply of stem cells it may revitalize even a brain that may be degraded...

This could literally be a form of immortality...

Which is both scary and exciting...


4 posted on 08/01/2013 8:01:38 AM PDT by GraceG
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5 posted on 08/01/2013 8:01:42 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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The lack of donor bodies may require the use of living donors like some kidney transplants.


6 posted on 08/01/2013 8:01:45 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (This message has been recorded but not approved by Obama's StasiNet. Read it at your peril.)
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That would be kinda like taking the hard drive from one computer and putting it in another without reloading the OS. The OS would wake up to a new set of hardware and software it doesn’t recognize. I know Windows would crater. Hope the human brain can overcome.


8 posted on 08/01/2013 8:02:44 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the left the truth looks like Right-Wing extremism.)
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9 posted on 08/01/2013 8:03:16 AM PDT by mbarker12474
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Is it a head transplant or a body transplant?


12 posted on 08/01/2013 8:04:11 AM PDT by Entropy Squared (The Rush to Chaos)
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Well, they may be able to physiologically tie everything together...and may even make a good part of it work.

But I honestly believe that the emotional and mental issues will render the patient insane.

With my Sacral Chordoma tumor and complete sacrectomy, the several surgical teams (Neuro Surgeons, Bone Specialists & surgeons, anisthesiologists, pain sepcialists, blood specialists, plastic surgeons,etc.) performed three major surgeries on me that cost upwards of 2 million dollars. They literallty took me apart and put me back together again.

I was in the hospital for almost four months, and then went through several months of very intensive rehab afterwards.

Overcoming all of that and learning to walk and be able to function again was very, very difficult...physically, emoytionally, and mentally. There was a lot of very significant emotional and mental attidue difficulties and adjustments in addition to the shear physcial issues associated woith it.

It's been almost four years since I was diagnosed and three and one half years since the surgery.

I do not believe a person waking up in a different body and having to learn to use all of those body parts (those that they can make work) will be able to overcome it. But that's just my own opinipon.

15 posted on 08/01/2013 8:06:04 AM PDT by Jeff Head
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A head traansfer?

Steven Hawkings comes to mind as a potential patient, it would have ot be someone who needs a new body, not a new head. Otherwise, you are just keeping a body around, say if someone had a bad head injury.

The other thing is, transferring say Stalin’s head to a new body, which could allow for super bad guys to live a lot longer

This practice needs to be heavily regulated if it becomes medically viable


17 posted on 08/01/2013 8:06:29 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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The Saracen’s Head (revisited!)


18 posted on 08/01/2013 8:06:45 AM PDT by SparkyBass
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One of the unintentionally funniest movies ever was about a failed head transplant gone wrong. (The host woke up early.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWHNA_j7h5A


25 posted on 08/01/2013 8:13:06 AM PDT by dangus (Poverty cannot be eradicated as long as the poor remain dependent on the state - Pope Francis)
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27 posted on 08/01/2013 8:14:31 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (</sarcasm>)
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No body is getting my head-get it no body.:)


28 posted on 08/01/2013 8:14:58 AM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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And you won't be angry?

I will *not* be angry!

31 posted on 08/01/2013 8:16:13 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (If Obama Had A City It Would Look Like Detroit.)
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"The greatest technical hurdle to such endeavor is of course the reconnection of the donor's and recipient's spinal cords. It is my contention that the technology only now exists for such linkage."

They should focus on connecting the spinal cords of paralysis victims, and when they're able to reconnect the head of a quadriplegic to his own body, only then should they start swapping heads.
40 posted on 08/01/2013 8:27:14 AM PDT by Colinsky
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Piffle! Sis and I used to exchange the heads of our GI Joe and Barbie dolls all the time.

Mom had us tested - we’re normal. :)


41 posted on 08/01/2013 8:28:59 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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Well, that’s ONE way to get rid of your thunder thighs.


42 posted on 08/01/2013 8:29:29 AM PDT by Nita Nupress ( Use your mind, not your emotions. Refuse to be manipulated by Marxists!)
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That movie scared the bejeebers out of me as a kid. I recently bought it off the DVD bargain bin. Not so scary now.
Or maybe it is, a girlfriend that’s all head and no body? I might prefer the opposite knowing what I know now.


43 posted on 08/01/2013 8:29:59 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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So, I have a question....

How do they know it’s a “head transplant.”

Why isn’t this considered a “body transplant”?

Does the identity of this person go with the body?

Shouldn’t the identity of the new person go with the head?


49 posted on 08/01/2013 8:36:17 AM PDT by Alex in chains
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