Reading on the subject (hand issue with a close family member) tells me that using toe joints to regain some finger functionality is not unknown in Western medicine currently. And I would speculate that a large part of the issue with five v. three is the cosmetic effect. This really can't be underestimated. It's the reason why many who currently can use a traditional clasping-hook prosthesis choose not to.
BTW and kinda-on-topic - IMO the current state-of-the-art in hand prosthetics is from Touch Bionics. Great, great stuff. Here's hoping that over the next decade or so we see some real progress in this area, for children as well as adults. Hat's off to Nemours and their use of 3D-printing.
If I have it right, humans have been around in anatomical form for about ~200,000 years. And in about one billion years, the sun will begin expansion. Let's also say that in only 500,000,000 years it will already be unlivable on Earth for the reasons you mentioned.
We would still have ~2500 'lifetimes-of-humanity-thusfar' to figure it out.
Not. Worried.
"Why aren't you doing everything you can to breeze through it?"
Because it's not right that I should have to.
Unlike you, for whom the threat of a jackboot on your neck for trying to go about your business as a free citizen has become comfortable.
Corzine. Hundreds of millions in 'segregated' funds. Currently enjoying new multi-million dollar offices on Wall St.
It eliminated central heating from your electric bill in the winter, so it evened out...
Devastation? What complete and utter bullshit. There more than enough willful ignorance to go around apparently.
"Unless you don't care about PC gaming at all, by now you're aware of Valve's entry into the MOBA/ARTS genre, Dota 2."
Unless you're a total douche-bag, you wouldn't even think of penning something like that.
Instances of me getting cut off and tailgated dropped to nearly zero when I started driving an '85 CJ7 with a 4" lift and steel bumpers. Happens nearly every time I drive my other car (an old Mercedes diesel) so I noticed the effect almost immediately. And the Jeep is not significantly faster than the diesel except off the line, nor do I drive it faster (the opposite if anything).
What was the name of that Venus story? I'm rather certain a film version was made of it and I was just recently trying to locate it again. I definitely remember seeing a film about kids on a rainy world many years ago that stuck in my mind, and your description fleshes out the hazy memory of it perfectly.
Well, they had to pass it to find out what's in it after all.
Oh yes, yes. That's OBVIOUSLY exactly what I was saying. Guns, bombs...pshaw. Nerve gas and radioactive material should be allowed too. After all, what's to be afraid of? LOL
Fucking dumbass.
"Lofty language." - A couple of hundred years from now your descendents will probably think that mine talk 'gay' too. Go back to greeting people at Costco.
"It's not hard to imagine scenarios"
That is the problem. That right there.
I choose not to live in fear.
Fear is the mind killer. Or society in this case.
Real Users are afraid they'll break the machine -- but they're never afraid to break your face.
