Posted on 07/03/2014 11:39:53 AM PDT by skeptoid
University of Tennessee has a veterinary technician B.S. program which they say is the equivalent of RNs in people-medicine.
It seems like it. I'm really not all that short, except compared to my teenagers!
Third from bottom is colored like our Andra was.
Yup. :-)
You inspire confidence!
That one seems pretty relaxed and good natured.
Having cow trouble?
May be, but at my age and circumstances, I would be hard pressed to find housing and funding for such an endeavor, even if my brain was up to the challenge.
No one seems to offer free courses in anything these days, except for idiocy...
Thanks! I just don’t know when to quit, at all...my curiosity is humungous!
*ahem*
Thank you.
I didn’t figure it would be something you could do, but it’s nice there is such a thing.
Can’t fix old age for any of us.
I have good memories of going to school while I still could and learning what was available. I’m sad that I couldn’t complete it, but the upside is that maybe, since then, I have been able to teach someone something that they would not have learned, had I not been assailed by things beyond my control.
In another life, I would have been an archeologist specializing in domestic animals for any given culture. My minor would have been associated fabrics. I could have been a conTENdah!
Yet.
Of course, once we can fix it; (Nudge, nudge to Ray Kurzweil), we will then have some brand new different problems!
None of this, by the way, is a problem for me. I believe, and try to live by, the notion that you should live your life as if you will live forever, but celebrate each day of it as if it will be your last.
Maybe they’ll be able to print out new bodies some day, keep hope alive. lol
Andra was a fairly relaxed dorg.
She enjoyed s good game of chase with dad.
They can probably do that now. The problem with all clones is being able to transfer the memories and other very personal characteristics; those things that make us us.
A minor problem in such a scenario is what to do with the original. Clifford Simak in "Way Station" had pits of acid.
Okay, maybe not acid. The effect is the same. We can print out your body by assembling all the materials out of the various types of inks that you are; muscle, bone, skin, and so forth.
So at the end of that, if we disassemble your original body back into those constituent inks, you should have no complaint, right?
I handled this problem (in my fiction), by having the original on his last legs, and lasting only until the transfer was complete. Then we had a nice funeral, and the new clone picked a nice burial spot for his old discard.
How will each of us handle the same issue?
even if you could transfer your consciousness, would you really want all the memories from the last life?
I would keep it a secret. No way, no how should the human race as it is now be able to live forever. Not nearly ready for something like that.
Instead find some like-minded people, freepers and such, and allow them to live multiple lives so they can amass a fortune and set the path toward taking over the country. Yep a secret society bent on taking over from the commies.
That could make a good story.
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