• A Bioengineered Future in Deep Space
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[QUOTE=No_0ne;25018391]Because human capacity for knowledge/memory is finite[/QUOTE] Darpa are making headway creating an add on hippocampus for human memories. Just slip a few of those under the skin and muscle in your back and run the connection under the spine into the brain and you're set to go.
was listening to this when I found the article: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDlpaK4ScJw[/media] :tinfoil:
[img]http://www.news2020.com/images/CarlSagan.jpg[/img] I want to be a robot, too bad I won't be alive to witness this. Hopefully some major people will start funding this research so it can keep evolving at a steady rate.
I have always wanted to be a robot always
if the opportunity to become a cyborg emerges within my lifetime, I'm taking it. Recessions don't matter when you don't need to eat.
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;25021232]...ANYTHING, as long as society is not a uniform pool of 35-year-old, everyday-kind of married, straight, Christian males with two sons and one daughter. God that would be horrible.[/QUOTE] Forgot about the pickup truck, gotta have one of those.
Crushing people with your mind FTW. [IMG]http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20081119041046/masseffect/images/8/8c/Biotics_Codex_Image.jpg[/IMG] [editline]11:48PM[/editline] [QUOTE=Metalcastr;25027604]Forgot about the pickup truck, gotta have one of those.[/QUOTE] With a Confederate flag on the hood.
i predict furries after bioengineering. then people can REALLY yiff in hell.
[img]http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2010/06/adam-590x430.jpg[/img] Can't wait
Oh god EVE is becoming a reality quicker than i thought.
[QUOTE=bravehat;25024539]Darpa are making headway creating an add on hippocampus for human memories. Just slip a few of those under the skin and muscle in your back and run the connection under the spine into the brain and you're set to go.[/QUOTE] If we could bioengineer ourselves to be all over larger (not so large that we're ridiculously slow to move and need an exorbitant amount of food to operate) you could probably solve that problem (temporarily) by doubling the size of the human brain. One would assume that percentage wise, the same amount of the brain would be dedicated to handling our bodies biological functions as well (larger body, larger brain, more of the brain is used to control our larger bodies, but it would probably be proportional to the 'original' humans). So... perhaps you could get twice the storage capacity going. And to double the volume of an object (especially one that's round like the brain) you don't actually really need to increase the radius that much, so we wouldn't need to be ridiculously large, either.
Ah, the future. Hellish cybernetic atrocities and furries with foot long dicks, everywhere. I tell you, war is going to be damn interesting.
I read this listening to the Star Trek theme. really enhanced the experience.
[IMG]http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/e/e5/Clone_Troopers_Phase_I.jpg[/IMG] Bring em on
I wouldn't want to have my brain or lungs or other organs modified, but heck, cybernetic arms with superhuman strength would be hella cool.
[QUOTE=BaconDioxide;25018148]I wouldn't mind having my brain uploaded to some interstellar probe and shot off to Alpha Centauri Hell, just take my whole brain out and put it in a jar in the probe[/QUOTE] Sure is Cortex Command around here.
[QUOTE=sltungle;25034263]If we could bioengineer ourselves to be all over larger (not so large that we're ridiculously slow to move and need an exorbitant amount of food to operate) you could probably solve that problem (temporarily) by doubling the size of the human brain. One would assume that percentage wise, the same amount of the brain would be dedicated to handling our bodies biological functions as well (larger body, larger brain, more of the brain is used to control our larger bodies, but it would probably be proportional to the 'original' humans). So... perhaps you could get twice the storage capacity going. And to double the volume of an object (especially one that's round like the brain) you don't actually really need to increase the radius that much, so we wouldn't need to be ridiculously large, either.[/QUOTE] Then you start to have issues with feeding the brain, you would need to improve the vascular supply to it, and increase the folding of the brain to increase surface area, then there's the issue of keeping the new larger body supported easily and well maintained. It's easier to just build new hippcampi (fuck knows what the plural form of hippocampus is) and connect them through the spine.
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