Re: Commercial Whole Body Transplants

From: Natasha Vita-More (natasha@natasha.cc)
Date: Thu Oct 12 2000 - 08:37:38 MDT


At 02:15 AM 10/12/00 GMT, you wrote:

Zeb, the site Randy referenced is unique while discussing whole body
prosthetics. I think this was what Randy was getting at - not that
transplants are a novelty.

Thanks for your link as well.

Natasha

>Whole body transplants are nothing new. I saw something on tv a few years
>ago - it was a rerun from what seemed to be the 1980s, and it was going into
>the Frankenstein angle and all that, and it showed footage of monkeys which
>had had head transplants. They were paralyzed of course. Funding was cut for
>this unnatural activity - if God had wanted paralyzed people to survive
>multiple organ failure, he wouldn't have thrown them off horses in the first
>place.
>Here's the best link I could find on it, but I could not find exact details
>about the tv show I'd seen:
>http://www.sciam.com/1999/0999bionic/0999white.html
>
>
>>From: "Randy Smith" <randysmith101@hotmail.com>
>>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
>>To: extropians@extropy.org
>>Subject: Commercial Whole Body Transplants
>>Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 14:43:13 CDT
>>
>>This appears to be a web page for a commercial outfit looking to get into
>>the whole body transplant biz. Kind of a wide-open market, I would think. I
>>might be in the market a few decades from now...
>>Haven't had time to look at this link, but will do so later:
>>
>>http://216.247.9.207/ny-best.htm
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