IvoTheSquire
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Huh, nvm then: https://foundry.bio/coronavirus-covid-19/
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Oh, no. I wasn't thinking about making it official or anything. It's just that if people can DIY test themselves (or just get some "test" done) and then isolate if it's positive it might have the same effect as mass official testing (aka South Korea). Even if it turns out to be a false positive it would just mean that the…
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Just to be clear, this isn't because the medical professionals are being stubborn or anything like that. It's just that if doctors / surgeons got it wrong (or heck, make a mistake in the procedure) there's a much bigger risk of litigation and loss of careers and so forth.
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Funny thing, replacing parts for the sake of pain management is already a thing: That's what total knee / hip replacements are entirely for.
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I had a look at this and the results... makes the risk of keeping it in higher than the risk involved in getting it out.
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I would probably define "easy" first. If we are talking about making the science "easy" as in everyone gets to do experiments and progress in knowledge, then no, that's not possible. But if we are talking about making it easy to access as in "if a layman wants a magnet in their finger they can have it without going through…
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It is also a very ridiculous interpretation since it is also in the Revalations that the Beast made 3 appearances before the Mark of the Beast (in fact, it is in his third appearance where people start getting marked). By calling implants the Mark of the Beast they are also implying that the Beast had already appeared…
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A bit too late for that. if you have access to a library database look up this paper: Warrick, K et al. Thought communication and control: a first step using radiotelegraphy. IEE PROCEEDINGS-COMMUNICATIONS 2004; 151: 185-189 I would agree though this is a bit too much to do at home: for one thing if you're not familiar…
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Accidental making myself shoot lasers out of my eyes! Because that’s totally how that goes in comic books. :P
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Interesting, because I’ve seen so many NGTs in hospitals and most of them they get taken out asap due to the discomfort and side effects. There are patients who utterly would refuse one even in the face of death (it’s written in their advanced health directive - a legal document in Australia declaring what they want and…
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Yeah, but my point is that hunger is a good indication and drive to get nourishment - removing that might end up you forgetting to intake food and become malnourished since you won’t be feeling anything.
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Please don’t. Apart from all the tissue damage and discomfort (while I haven’t experience it, it is bad enough that palliative patients would rather die than to have it), your body actually do need nutrients and not feeling the need to eat is a receipe for malnutrition.
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OK. If that's how you would put it... Babies learning how to walk isn't really a non-selfish act. It's about the baby learning how to walk. Can the baby pass on how to walk to other babies? Can babies share the ability to walk? Nerp. Writing a book by yourself isn't really a non-selfish act. It's about you enjoying what…
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Question: what do you mean by "quite numb"? Is it less numb (which it should be) than before?
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I would also add that immature metabolism works a bit differently to adults (there is a reason why there are paeds after all) so the effects are even less predictable. And as someone who is going to work in a profession where 24-50 hr shifts are the norm, I’m laughing at this.
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Which part of Australia are you in? In Sydney there might be some people there that are on it who might be able to help. Not too sure about other cities. On facebook we have groups BioHackSyd or BioHackQLD where people deeply involved in implants (including the famous Meow Meow).
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Hi, welcome to the forums. :)
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A bit off topic, but I'm curious: what exactly is the implant that you put in your body to try to stop the chronic pain and delirium?
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"... viral agent that rewrites the genome of every tissue." If that kind of virus exists we wouldn't have so much limits with trying to manipulate genes in adults. Also, retroviruses are positive-sense RNA viruses, not negative-sense. It sounds very science-y but it's all bullocks.
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I’m going to say that this is a ridiculously broad definition of “selfish”. Other people may not even want magnets in their fingers and being able to pick up magnetic fields. They might just want you to use that power to, say, find the wires inside the walls during renovation for example.
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Zing! I also think that there is a limit to being able to do things “better”. Just look around and have a look at the machines we got. A tank is never going to outrace a Farrari on a racetrack due to its heavy armor, and its heavy armor is the reason why a tank will (be more likely) to survive bullets and shells while they…
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A couple of things that needs to be mentioned here: 1) While nerves can be influenced by electric fields, that does not necessarily mean that they generate electricity in the same way as wires or electrodes do. The physics in an action potential going through a neuron and electricity going through a wire are entirely…
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Also, I would add that gut bacteria is a really new emerging area and there’s still a lot that we do not know about (and there’re some claims that I have serious doubts about) even just for normal human gut flora, let alone what happens when foreign bacteria gets in. Heck, even a different strain of the same bacteria that…
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Well, complete bone replacement does exist: I vaguely remember seeing a picture of what can only be an entire femur being placed with an implant in a surgery theatre. So it's not something that is impossible. Normally we do not replace every bone in the body anyway (aside from that problem that you mentioned, replacing all…
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(Just so everyone’s aware: I’m going on rotations next year so this may not be accurate). As far as I am aware ultrasound can be a bit of hit-and-miss and takes experience to interpret, and sometimes even then it can get subjective (heck, the little bit of ultrasound makes me go “huh?” all the time) except for really high…
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Kendo and BJJ? That's an interesting combination. I do vaguely remember a Murray Thai guy being disqualified from comp for having bone plates on his tibia (shin bone), so at least there is a perceived advantage. However, I do want to mention that in orthopedics there's something called "stress shielding" - where the…
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-double posted due to computer problem-
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From what I've read so far silicone coating has a low rate of failure, but that doesn't mean it doesn't. Given the symptoms I second what everyone's been saying: take it out and find out. At worst it's just be nothing and you'll just need to implant it / another one again (and we'll need to find an explanation for the loss…
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I also regularly use tDCS. There was a period of time when I try to use the montage that will reduce my sleeping time (based on this paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4987856/). Once I had the cathode on too far back of my head and as a result I started seeing grey lines in my vision that overlaps on…
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Brisbane, Australia (for the next 2 years at least).