14th August 2005, 11:10 AM
To GR, from Science: You have not fought with anyone. This is not an unusual phenomenon. Already existing explanations properly account for it. Thank you for using science phone! You can science too!
Yeah, the thing is people are going around using all these methods just to change their physical appearence, and it's just in the most brutal ways possible is all. Now, I could just say "the body wasn't designed to do that", but hey an upgrade can work without the system it's for being designed for it. However, at least with computers such mods are THOUGHT OUT, some real understanding of what is being done as well as the risks vs the reward are done there. We have people getting their face bones cut up and raised just to look better, and I've watched those show showing the surgery. They make it a clear point that during that move, they could very well accidently damage the brain (brain having the consistancy of halfsolid jello, not the claylike strength one might think it has from cartoons). These people are risking the one and single thing that defines who they are just for a "nicer" face.
Fact is though, "freaks" are still pretty much maligned and shunned by society. Society just doesn't talk about that that much because it's depressing. Consider that the average person who's face is upside down is pretty much doomed to NEVER be hired no matter how little appearence has to do with the job.
You the- eww, you.
Kid's father: Hey, HEY! We were next here! Hey, get back here! Alright, here's what we're going to do. We're going to make our OWN TV show, just for us!
Kid: I don't wanna!
Father: Yes you DO, you do because it's normal!
But anyway, that said, I'm fully willing to give up any shreds of humanity it may take to upgrade FUNCTIONALITY. Becomng a cyborg would just be cool. My short term memory could use a boost...
Yeah, the thing is people are going around using all these methods just to change their physical appearence, and it's just in the most brutal ways possible is all. Now, I could just say "the body wasn't designed to do that", but hey an upgrade can work without the system it's for being designed for it. However, at least with computers such mods are THOUGHT OUT, some real understanding of what is being done as well as the risks vs the reward are done there. We have people getting their face bones cut up and raised just to look better, and I've watched those show showing the surgery. They make it a clear point that during that move, they could very well accidently damage the brain (brain having the consistancy of halfsolid jello, not the claylike strength one might think it has from cartoons). These people are risking the one and single thing that defines who they are just for a "nicer" face.
Fact is though, "freaks" are still pretty much maligned and shunned by society. Society just doesn't talk about that that much because it's depressing. Consider that the average person who's face is upside down is pretty much doomed to NEVER be hired no matter how little appearence has to do with the job.
You the- eww, you.
Kid's father: Hey, HEY! We were next here! Hey, get back here! Alright, here's what we're going to do. We're going to make our OWN TV show, just for us!
Kid: I don't wanna!
Father: Yes you DO, you do because it's normal!
But anyway, that said, I'm fully willing to give up any shreds of humanity it may take to upgrade FUNCTIONALITY. Becomng a cyborg would just be cool. My short term memory could use a boost...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)