Soldier gets double arm transplant; is a total badass - Polidicks

Does...he even lift?

[QUOTE=Justin Case;39403923]Well he had a limb transplant so they're not his hands; In which case it's a handjob, not masturbation[/QUOTE] Yeah but they're also probably a guy's hands, so it's gay

[QUOTE=zakedodead;39407382]"Can I get a girls arms? At least the left one please?"[/QUOTE] man if I could get a girls legs i'd chop my legs off on the spot

[QUOTE=KommradKommisar;39404921]War does a great job of inventing awesome new things.[/QUOTE] iirc, ww2 and the cold war were when humanity progressed the fastest in terms of technology and medicine.

[QUOTE=Eluveitie;39410772]iirc, ww2 and the cold war were when humanity progressed the fastest in terms of technology and medicine.[/QUOTE] I like Neil Degrasse Tyson's explanation that humans have two driving factors to innovate : to not die, and to not die poor

"Set of arms gets torso transplant"

[QUOTE=Tobba;39405696]Limb transplants tend to get rejected eventually though[/QUOTE] What are you talking about? Limbs are only rejected when they're first transplanted, once they've been on for awhile it's impossible for your body to reject them.

But can he still feel anything his arms/hands touch? Also how well can he move them?

I'm just imagining if they put each arm on the wrong side and he had to live like that.

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;39411701]But can he still feel anything his arms/hands touch? Also how well can he move them?[/QUOTE] [quote=the article][...]“We expect it will take two to three years to see what that final function will be,” said Shores, the hospital's clinical director of hand transplantation. "The nerves make the muscles work [B]as well as giving sensation[/B].” [...] [...] “He was showing me how he was now able to tie shoe laces with his transplanted hands,” Lee said of the previous patient. “Also, [B]in addition to being able to tie his shoes, he sent us a video of him using chopsticks with his transplanted hand[/B].” [...][/quote] i find it to be bloody fantastic [editline]30th January 2013[/editline] in [B]less than two months [/B]he was given arms and is being able to use them [B]to tie his own fucking shoes. [/B]

[QUOTE=Mooe94;39412553]i find it to be bloody fantastic [editline]30th January 2013[/editline] in [B]less than two months [/B]he was given arms and is being able to use them [B]to tie his own fucking shoes. [/B][/QUOTE] Anybody who isn't blown away by this is either jaded as all hell or desensitized by years of Sci-Fi. This is fucking incredible.

[QUOTE=FPChris;39405628]Though this is amazing, I still want to see them putting more work into those robotic limbs. Seen some pretty awesome stuff on YouTube.[/QUOTE] While robot arms are neat and all, I think the average patient would prefer a more natural or organic solution. Flesh and blood is just more relateable than plastic and metal.

he will be an unstoppable fapping machine!

[QUOTE=Shugo;39405587]I think you guys missed the part where he said he would rather [b]die[/b], meaning he [i]wouldn't[/i] live out the rest of his life a quadriplegic; he would just off himself. :v:[/QUOTE] How?

I saw this yesterday on television. While I find it's great that the guy has arms again and isn't quadriplegic, the thought of having someone else's limbs being sewn onto another person is revolting. I wish we can hurry up and develop effective mechanical limbs so we don't have to borrow limbs from dead people anymore.

[QUOTE=Appellation;39414985]How?[/QUOTE] he would wiggle off his bed and break his own neck in the process

[QUOTE=Dr.Critic;39405897]Well obviously if there was no other way there's the chance I wouldn't choose to continue my existence if I was stuck like that, as pessimistic and however shortsighted it may seem. Not everyone wants to become an unusual feat of medical science that makes them merely resemble a shadow of their former life either.[/quote] I just cannot see your reasoning at all. Death is never a better choice when a good life is available. The key word there being good life. I can understand someone choosing death over living out the last handful of years with some painful degenerative disease. I could even understand a quadriplegic choosing that alternative. Except in this case the guy now has two functioning arms. With a little bit of luck and serious dedication this guy will regain significant, if not full, use of his new limbs. [quote] The whole idea is going to be just creepy and unpleasant if you end up thinking about it too much, which is probably going to happen a lot if your condition has given you depression. Its not ridiculous at all that I wouldn't want to have a piece of an animated corpse attached to my body.[/QUOTE] I don't see why it would be creepy at all. It's not like they attached sentient, independent limbs. They are just arms. Would you deny a liver transplant? What about a heart transplant? Those are the same things. Someone signed up to donate parts of their body, and this guy willingly accepted it. It's better this, than just throwing away useful organs. The donor died regardless of his donations. At least now, someone else may live. I'll admit it would take some time getting used to having another person's external limbs attached to where mine used to be, but I see no reason why someone would choose death because it's "weird."

LANDMINE has taken my sight taken my speech taken my hearing taken my arms taken my legs taken my soul, left me in life in Hell!

[QUOTE=DBFT;39415152]I saw this yesterday on television. While I find it's great that the guy has arms again and isn't quadriplegic, the thought of having someone else's limbs being sewn onto another person is revolting. I wish we can hurry up and develop effective mechanical limbs so we don't have to borrow limbs from dead people anymore.[/QUOTE] But it's only creepy because we have a elbow jerk reaction to it. Think about it, if you're dead, do you care about your arms?

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[QUOTE=DBFT;39415152]I saw this yesterday on television. While I find it's great that the guy has arms again and isn't quadriplegic, the thought of having someone else's limbs being sewn onto another person is revolting. I wish we can hurry up and develop effective mechanical limbs so we don't have to borrow limbs from dead people anymore.[/QUOTE] No. If you'd lost both your arms you wouldn't find it strange in the slightest.

I'd be [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wcH0FCPx0w&t=2m57s]careful[/url] if I were him.

are they working on getting him legs?