World's First Double-Arm Transplant 36
quakeslut writes "The BBC has the scoop on the first double-arm transplant. Amazingly, after only two weeks or so, the recipient says that it already feels "as if these are my own hands." Please, keep the "give that guy a hand, or two!!" jokes to a minimum."
ha! (Score:1, Interesting)
"Boy is that guy gonna' need a hand transplant 5-10 years from now..."
Carpel tunnel is no picnic, people, but at least now I can be like my grandfather, who till the last days before he died of lung cancer insisted that the burgeoning pace of technology would give a cure for cancer long before he died of smoking.
Um, yeah.
Sweet (Score:2, Funny)
If he weren't dead, I'd steal Bruce Lee's arms.
WOH-PAH!
Re:Sweet (Score:5, Funny)
1. Find Bruce Lee's dead corpse.
2. Extract his DNA.
3. Find a pig.
4. Insert Lee's DNA into the pig.
5. Wait a few months for the arms to grow.
6. ???
7. Profit!!
Re:Sweet (Score:4, Informative)
Lakeview Cemetery
1554 15th. Ave. E
Seattle, WA
Take the #10 bus from downtown Seattle, you can catch it going west on Madison St., north on 1st Ave, then east on Pike at 4th and 6th, and east at 9th and Pine St. Take this bus to the end of the line, about a 15-20 minute ride. You will pass the cemetery just before the last stop. Enter through the main gate and proceed straight ahead, up the hill. You will see a flag pole to your left,near the top of the hill. The grave is about 50 ft. north and a little east of the flag pole. Look for two 4 ft. side-by-side head stones with a small bench in front of them. Bus service is very frequent on all days except sundays.
How much did those cost? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:How much did those cost? (Score:2)
Or two
Well (Score:5, Funny)
Ok, so that's pretty gross, sorry.
The Stranger (Score:3, Insightful)
From which we deduce that anyone seriously suggesting "use your left hand, it feels like someone else is doing it", has never actually had someone else do it.
Finally! (Score:1)
Zaphod, (Score:4, Funny)
*SCNR*
I can see.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I can see.. (Score:1)
whole body transplant (Score:2, Insightful)
The brain is just about all that's left.
Re:whole body transplant (Score:3, Insightful)
To have a real "brain transplant" would require that one's memories, neural patterns, etc, be transferred to the new brain. However, since the way a person is is tied to the way neurons are physically connected, transfer would be impossible snce the entire new brain would have to be "rewired." It would probably be easier to "grow" a new brain cloning the original structure. Even so, this is many years off.
Re:whole body transplant (Score:1)
His own hands.? (Score:1)
Don't take your organs to heaven.... (Score:1)
Re:Don't take your organs to heaven.... (Score:1)
Re:Don't take your organs to heaven.... (Score:1)
Must....resist....bad....jokes....! (Score:1, Funny)
phantom pains? (Score:1)
Since the arms are now attached aren't the phantom pains just pains now?
applause (Score:1)