MCCOY: All the ganglia, the nerves. There are a million of them. What am I supposed to do? What am I supposed to do?........I'm trying to thread a needle with a sledgehammer. What am I supposed to do? I can't remember. I don't remember.
Posted on 04/19/2015 3:55:14 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
A 30-year-old Russian man with a degenerative disease has volunteered for the world’s first human head transplant operation.
Researchers have seriously questioned the feasibility of the operation proposed by Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero.
But Valery Spiridonov, a computer scientist from the Russian town of Vladimir, about 160 kilometers east of Moscow, says he wants to undergo the operation within the next two years.
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Wasn’t it a russian that did the first dog head transplant? Think it lived for a week or so.
Poor guy, without a doubt he is going to die. I mean come on, we can barely get by with single organ transplants, and even then you have to take a huge swath of drugs, anti-rejection drugs, then drugs to curb the side effect of those drugs, then other drugs for complications, it just constant drugs drugs drugs drugs for life and that is just for ONE organ, like a kidney or heart, but an entire head on a completely foreign body? No freakin way. You might as well try to attach a human head to a pig body, it’s ridiculous.
Maybe I am a little slow on the uptake here, but I am trying to figure out how they will find a good, healthy donor body, for his head to be transplanted on to. I just don't see where they are going to find any volunteers.
We have an entire CONGRESSIONALLY challenged people that really, REALLY need surgical assistance.
So there are no more severed spines in Russia? That’s all fixed?
At least a lot of good progress has been made with forcing cells to become stem cells and tying that in to growing them and 3D-printing.
Really, we may be able to grow our own body-compatible organs with our own DNA.
> Maybe I am a little slow on the uptake here, but I am trying to figure out how they will find a good, healthy donor body, for his head to be transplanted on to. I just don’t see where they are going to find any volunteers.
It’s Russia. They will find a “volunteer” willingly or not...
> We have an entire CONGRESSIONALLY challenged people that really, REALLY need surgical assistance.
Both brain and conscience implants needed.
LOL, I am sure they will find a host of "volunteers" I guess it really IS true what Yakov Smirnoff says, in America, you can always find a party. In Russia, party always finds you.
It's been tried with success and the recipient is the current Democrat front runner for POTUS...........
MCCOY: All the ganglia, the nerves. There are a million of them. What am I supposed to do? What am I supposed to do?........I'm trying to thread a needle with a sledgehammer. What am I supposed to do? I can't remember. I don't remember.
Yemen.
Oh yes that I could see happening, definitely, but to attach a head to a completely foreign body is ridiculous, it’s Nazi fantasy stuff.
But growing organs from someones cells is completely possible, it would be incredible if you needed a new heart or kidney they could grow you one and it would extend life a great deal. But I think there is a limit to how old someone can get before the brain basically turns into jelly. They can replace every organ but they can’t replace the brain otherwise it wouldn’t be you anymore. Plus why are they looking to extend peoples lives anyway? They would have to deal with the ever expanding world population at the same time. If they are going to extend peoples lives, then that is going to be added pressure on a world population that is adding a billion people every 10 years and that time frame is speeding up. 2000 years ago the entire world population was less than the current population of the US alone and it took 1,800 years just to reach a billion. Today we reach a billion in 10 years. Soon it will be every 5. This is why all these 3rd world nations are spilling over into developed countries, why housing costs have quadrupled in the past 20 years, why traffic is getting more and more congested, why a college education isn’t worth squat today, and why rural areas are becoming more and more developed. I mean what is the limit? Until every last bit of land is like a city with people all squashed in buildings living on top of each other? Right now there are more homeless people living in New York city that there ever was during the Great Depression. I find that absolutely mind blowing, but that is a direct result of population expansion. It will get to a point where the streets will be crowded with the homeless, when having a house or apartment will be as rare as winning the lottery because the cost will be so insanely expensive, that’s if money even has any value in the future. Food and water will probably replace it. But we keep getting these breeding cows who got to have litters of kids and everyone keeps saying “Oh isn’t that so lovely that she has 20 kids” No it’s not, that is nothing but a pig.
One would think so, right?
To me, the problem of connecting a body to a head, even if you could get the rejection part down pat, what in the heck are you going to do about the nervous system? Particularly with respect to the spinal cord.
If that were possible, we wouldn’t have so many spinal cord injuries resulting in paralysis as we do.
If you can’t solve that problem, then you are better served in trying to figure out how to sustain the head in a jar.
” Plus why are they looking to extend peoples lives anyway?”
Perhaps you are missing the point..
There is no concern about overpopulation or burdens on society. Some people would pay all they own for the dream of hanging around longer. And some of those people have billions to spend. Wink, wink. It is about power. Think of a Hillary Clinton, ruling us for generation after generation.
Headectomy?
Oh happy day!
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