Topic: First head transplant to occur in China soon: “The Americans did not understand”

Anonymous A started this discussion 8 years ago #68,407

http://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2120503/worlds-first-head-transplant-be-performed-china-soon-says-radical

Metæ joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 9 hours later[^] [v] #833,371

> President Xi Jinping wants to restore China to greatness.
This sounds vaguely familiar. Where have I heard this before??

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 6 hours later, 15 hours after the original post[^] [v] #833,506

If you had a choice between death or being hooked up to a quadriplegic body for an indefinite period of time, which would you choose?

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 20 minutes later, 15 hours after the original post[^] [v] #833,509

Don’t you American idiots get it? The head transplant is a metaphor: China is taking over America as the head of the world.

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 8 years ago, 3 hours later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #833,530

@previous (D)
The Americans do not understand.

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 3 hours later, 22 hours after the original post[^] [v] #833,541

@833,509 (D)
I thought they did that in the 90s

Syntax joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 4 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #833,560

Just got around 2 reading this.

Looked 2C if any animals have been lucky enough and
> ". As of 2017 no durable success had been achieved."

One wood think it should 1st work on a mice

Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 23 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #833,570

@previous (Syntax)

They did it on a dog

Syntax replied with this 8 years ago, 13 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #833,574

@previous (G)
So of course I did remember that but not exactly if it was somewhat successful
> The dogs generally survived a few days; one survived 29 days.

Now there is no way a mouse or dog is going to be able to communicate much other than motor functions.

As an engineer I say 2self - If they have yet to re-connect spinal broken nerves - That should first be figured out b4 trying a more complex head connect

kook !!OPZbEQMT1 joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 3 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #833,613

@833,570 (G)
I'll bet that China has done it on a lot of prisoners

Anonymous G replied with this 8 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #833,643

@previous (kook !!OPZbEQMT1)

Then why would they be starting on braindead patients instead of living ones?

kook !!OPZbEQMT1 replied with this 8 years ago, 57 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #833,649

@previous (G)
I feel like they have probably,secretly done this procedure on regular people many times in the past

Anonymous I joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 21 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #833,652

What if the brain is female and planted in a male body

Ks joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 3 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #833,704

Make China great again.

Anonymous G replied with this 8 years ago, 3 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #833,752

@833,649 (kook !!OPZbEQMT1)

How

Anonymous C replied with this 8 years ago, 10 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #833,754

@previous (G)
Same way the Nazis experimented on human beings back in the day.

Anonymous G replied with this 8 years ago, 4 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #833,756

@previous (C)

Okay but it wasn't thought possible until an Italian doctor invented it

kook !!OPZbEQMT1 replied with this 8 years ago, 9 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #833,790

@833,754 (C)
Yes this

Anonymous K joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 10 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #833,791

@833,756 (G)

> Okay but it wasn't thought possible until an Italian doctor invented it

Italians and Chinese eat noodles daily so connecting the dots with nerves makes some common sense.

Minichan