Stunning Medical Progress

[magicstix]

This kind of thing is already obsolete with fleshprinting and stem cell techniques. They won't make you a titanium jaw in the future, they'll grow you a new one from your own cells.

[August]

Originally Posted by magicstix

This kind of thing is already obsolete with fleshprinting and stem cell techniques. They won't make you a titanium jaw in the future, they'll grow you a new one from your own cells.

Yeah but I wanna titanium one! Be able to drive nails with my chin. That'd be cool!

[Gargamel]

Originally Posted by August

Yeah but I wanna titanium one! Be able to drive nails with my chin. That'd be cool!

Most titanium alloys are actually quite soft, so you'd drive the nail, but end up bending your jaw. Then you'd have to heat it to over 700c to bend it back, and there goes the rest of your face.

[magicstix]

Originally Posted by Gargamel

Most titanium alloys are actually quite soft, so you'd drive the nail, but end up bending your jaw. Then you'd have to heat it to over 700c to bend it back, and there goes the rest of your face.

Worse than that, his skin and muscles aren't made of titanium...

[August]

Originally Posted by Gargamel

Most titanium alloys are actually quite soft, so you'd drive the nail, but end up bending your jaw. Then you'd have to heat it to over 700c to bend it back, and there goes the rest of your face.

Thanks for crapping on my Terminator fantasy!

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by August

Thanks for crapping on my Terminator fantasy!

Make a carbon fiber jaw

You could chew trough a train with those

[magicstix]

Originally Posted by Betonov

Make a carbon fiber jaw

You could chew trough a train with those

Carbon fiber is rejected by the body...

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by magicstix

Carbon fiber is rejected by the body...

explains the rashes

[August]

I'm just kidding of course but it does raise a valid question. Is it wrong to improve what nature provides?

If we can someday replace our bone skeleton with a stronger one or make our skin tougher (that'd kill foruming ), or make longer lasting internal organs, should we?

[Betonov]

Interesting question there.

I'd say its not wrong to improve ourselves, but the potential for abuse is so great it should be limited to replacing ill or damaged organs.

Making handicaped walk again and not seting a pole jump rekord by a mile and all that jazz

[magicstix]

Originally Posted by August

I'm just kidding of course but it does raise a valid question. Is it wrong to improve what nature provides?

If we can someday replace our bone skeleton with a stronger one or make our skin tougher (that'd kill foruming ), or make longer lasting internal organs, should we?

Humans are no longer subject to the pressures of natural selection. If we want to improve as a species we have to do it ourselves.

If the power exists for someone to change something they don't like about themselves, who has the right to tell them they aren't allowed to?

[Egan]

Originally Posted by Gargamel

Most titanium alloys are actually quite soft, so you'd drive the nail, but end up bending your jaw. Then you'd have to heat it to over 700c to bend it back, and there goes the rest of your face.

I'm an old time aesthete, can I have my jaw in teak and walnut instead?

[GoldenRivet]

i may be understanding genetics incorrectly...

but even using your own DNA to grow you a replacement jaw bone - assuming you needed the replacement at the age of 18 - would take 18 years to grow yes?

besides i think we are a short distance from perfecting such things.

In the mean time i think this presents something very helpful for people who have been involved in industrial accidents or who have had various bone structures badly shattered - or even for people who have had failed suicides.

I can't wait to see where medical technology is in another 20 years

[magicstix]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

i may be understanding genetics incorrectly...

but even using your own DNA to grow you a replacement jaw bone - assuming you needed the replacement at the age of 18 - would take 18 years to grow yes?

besides i think we are a short distance from perfecting such things.

In the mean time i think this presents something very helpful for people who have been involved in industrial accidents or who have had various bone structures badly shattered - or even for people who have had failed suicides.

I can't wait to see where medical technology is in another 20 years

No, it doesn't work that way. Growth speed is controlled by hormones secreted by the pituitary gland. The brain itself times how you grow, not your DNA.

[GoldenRivet]

So, we could grow a liver for a 30 year old ... in say, 1 year?