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So, there are a lot of scientists in the world, and a
reasonable number of jolly
good ones. Of these, a fair proportion will end up with some
untreatable
progressive disease such as cancer or Alzheimer's. I've
known eight or ten world-
class scientists, for instance, who have fallen to cancer
of
one type or another.
Most of them (in fact, all of them now I think about it)
worked right up to the end.
Now, somebody once said something about imminent death
focussing the mind
wonderfully. And, as it happens, laws governing
experimentation on oneself are
quite lax (at least in the UK, and probably elsewhere).
So, here's the plan. Set up, and fund, the Hail Mary Institute
for Biomedical
Research. Suitably talented scientists, faced with a bleak
prognosis, are given
lifetime (hah!) tenure. During this time, they are
encouraged to work flat out on
finding a cure for what ails them. They cannot, of course,
use
any other human
subjects in their work. They will be focussed like nobody
else can be; they will be
reckless; there's a good chance they will simply accelerate
their own demise; they
will document their efforts. But they will spend their last
months doing what they
love and, once in a few hundred times, they may come up
with something that
works and that nobody else was crazy enough to try.
Hachimaki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachimaki " ... worn as a symbol of effort or courage by the wearer ... " [8th of 7, Jan 27 2020]
"Explaining the missing documents"
https://www.imdb.co...haracters/nm0001329 Second quote ... [8th of 7, Jan 29 2020]
Mission Statement
http://www.google.c...c=c22u53WTPmyXdM%3A Prophetic ... [8th of 7, Jan 29 2020]
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Do they get to wear a Hachimaki too ? |
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A complete, fully-stocked laboratory, tinkering with biologic heroic measures to save myself at 'end of life', when all hope is lost, in a race against time--what a way to go! Sign me up! |
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(Can one be disqualified after a lifetime spent biohacking? Asking for a friend.) |
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This idea has been awarded my second most crispy, steamy
and buttery hot bun. |
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What are you trying to say [MB]? Everything okay? Want me to put in a good word for you with the Big-Guy? I can do that you know. He figures you're pretty cool so it shouldn't be a hard sell. |
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[+] I like the more risk part. |
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//Want me to put in a good word for you with the Big-Guy?//
All's well. But tell the BG he still owes me a fiver. |
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This is my plan even if the ailment in question is well
outside my field of study. Yes, I already signed up for
cryonic freezing. No, I can't realistically expect it to
work. |
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"I know, great news isn't it? 5 clean scans, looks like a total
cure...... my lab books... ah, there was a freezer defrost
problem, and the water damage is remarkably complete...
along with the frozen samples sadly. Still, should my most
recent application be funded, I'm sure I can get the critical
stuff down from memory, or even find that back-up" |
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<link> I would say an example of creative genius if it
weren't just an abbreviated version of the actual truth. |
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I suspect most science from the last, say, 3 decades is
recorded in a ludicrously vulnerable manner. The stability
of DVD-R disks selected by price and stored on window
ledges is questionable at best. It's been years since I saw
a zip drive, longer for a 5.25" disk drive and then there's
data saved in proprietary formats with software written
for companies that no longer exist. Paper is no better,
10yo color graphs are all various shades of red-yellow - on
a background of yellow paper. |
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// a ludicrously vulnerable manner. // |
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In a fairly random selection of two-kilo lumps of greyish-pink jelly, attached to absurdly failure-prone, fragile and inefficient support systems ? |
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Jelly is comprised structurally of non-cellular collagen, while the brain is supported by cell-based glial cells. Therefore my brain is in no part made of jelly. |
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No ? Just wait until we've finished "re-educating" [bungston] and [bs] ... we will demonstrate that your brain is indeed jelly. |
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Well, by the time we get it out of its container to show it to everyone, it will be. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc. |
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I thought you didn't trust propter-hocs? |
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We certainly don't, which proves the point rather neatly, doesn't it ? |
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If you're indecisive, you've only got yourself to blame. Or then again, perhaps not. You don't have to be decisive at all, unless you want to be, in which case you can be, unless of course you choose otherwise. Which might or might not be your decision. |
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The problem is that I can never be sure if what you say you
thought you said is actually what you believed you said you
thought you said. |
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//recorded in a ludicrously vulnerable manner// |
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Needs a JDLinearBC driver to get it all backed up to clay
tablets. |
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I posted something similar to this. |
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Max - Is that why you you've been chomping down
all that Monsanto GM toxic muck? Ha |
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At times I feel I've lived my life by "Heal Thyself" precepts.
That is to say, I've passed a lot of false alarms and pursued
the self-enlightenment in each for what it was worth. I
guess I'm stronger thereby, since the scares haven't killed me
yet. |
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//Therefore my brain is in no part made of jelly// |
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Thou, sir, art a braggart |
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