Scientists Want To Put Spiders In Your Blood
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This would be amazingly helpful, but they'd need to also invent a kill switch for these little robots. Like some sort of pill you can take, or a visit to a doctor with a special machine. If these things can repair an internal injury before it gets bad, great. But I don't like the idea of them living in my body forever. Too many things could go wrong.
About time! My greatest fear is that I'll just miss the whole nanotech thing and live a regular human lifespan. Sure, I'll die sooner or later, but I damn well lan to make a good, long run of it, and nanospiders that keep me in one piece sound like one of the components of a long and healthy life.
There isn't a hand big enough to apply the facepalm I'ld need to express the amount of fail in this posting.
How in merry hell do osmotic propelled spheres equal spiders ??
Woundtreatment from inside the body sounds spiffy allright - but I have to question the effectivity of the procedure. The machines need to be able to make some complex decisions to be effective - as in how to apply the medical glue to the wound to properly seal it.
Judging from their size, you'ld need a whole damn lot of them, so either you ramp up on the nanotechnology to mass produce these bots or venture into the dreaded grounds of self replication.
I'ld wanna see the face of the poor SOB that has to face the medias with news of self replicating machines.
I can't see how the bots would be benefitial in treating a life threatening wound - I can't see them beeing effective enough to make a difference.
How in merry hell do osmotic propelled spheres equal spiders ??
Woundtreatment from inside the body sounds spiffy allright - but I have to question the effectivity of the procedure. The machines need to be able to make some complex decisions to be effective - as in how to apply the medical glue to the wound to properly seal it.
Judging from their size, you'ld need a whole damn lot of them, so either you ramp up on the nanotechnology to mass produce these bots or venture into the dreaded grounds of self replication.
I'ld wanna see the face of the poor SOB that has to face the medias with news of self replicating machines.
I can't see how the bots would be benefitial in treating a life threatening wound - I can't see them beeing effective enough to make a difference.
...I believe this idea has Cave Jonhson's seal of approval.
Though, in all seriousness, sounds like an interesting medical advancement, that's for sure. I'd like to see what become of this.
Though, in all seriousness, sounds like an interesting medical advancement, that's for sure. I'd like to see what become of this.
Wait a minute. Is Pennsylvania State University secretly Aperture Labs?
If so, MIT would be Black Mesa.
If so, MIT would be Black Mesa.
Finally, people will stop treating me like a crazy person when I say "I GOT SPIDERS IN MAH BRAIN!!!!"
This was my first thought as well. I'm also inclined to ask, what happens when they have no more "holes" to repair? And surely identifying problems (and teaching them to microspiders?) to 100% certainty isn't that easy. If they start patching up something they shouldn't, we're fucked.Earnest Cavalli said:
Another question. Just how would our own bodies feel about hosting these things? The immune system doesn't take kindly to intruders, there is quite a few diseases out there that happen because the body simply thinks it's sick, or under attack, even if it's realistically perfectly fine.
Oh and to mimic what others are already asking (and I've myself pointed out in multiple Escapist News posts so far), where does the original article mention, allude to or has anything to do with spiders?
I lol'd, good one.kannibus said:
OP: This is... cool. And I'd imagine it would be very useful. Now, time to work on my doomsday EMP device...
I suppose you'd be one of those people who decided to die of infection because penicillin was created from fungi and fungi is "icky".Witty Name Here said:
I really hope people talking about how they fear being controlled by these things are joking, I really do. Otherwise there are some just tremendously stupid people here.
Having played a lot of Cyberpunk 2020 in my youth all I can say is get fucking cracking on this one guys. Next thing I want is a skinweave, muscle and bone lace level 3 and... a Mr STUDD. *cough*
It's called nerd humour.Piecewise said: