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Comment on Nothing against disabled people but how come I can't replace my arm with something augmented that can carry more weight? Also other parts? My disabled bro asked me this and got me thinking

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Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

we don’t have the tech to make an arm that can exceed human levels of strength without damaging something.

What if I don’t need it to be gentile? Maybe I want to be Doctor Octopuss from spiderman, and just smash the city with big metalic arms. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to destroy the world, because this world SUCKS! Have you seen…ya know, things??? I don’t know a single person who’s like “Yes, things are certainly going well.”

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angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I think it was meant as “without damaging something in your body”.

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southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Well, I guess a nice jewish arm would also be nice, but the gentile ones don’t have to have the tip snipped

Sorry, the typo made me giggle

I’m with you! Supervillain origin story: go!

But, you want limits on what a piece of machinery strapped to you can do.

Ever see somebody lifting super huge weights, and the muscle just rips off and rolls up? Or someone carrying something huge and heavy (like my johnson) and take a step just a little wrong and bye-bye knee?

You get a mechanical arm, it’s gotta be hooked to you. If the attachment is something like a strap, it doesn’t matter what the arm can do, the strap is the weak point, and will eventually fail.

If the arm is grafted onto bone and muscle, guess what the weak point is. The arm can maybe lift a ton, but what actually happens is that either the ton just sits there while your arm pulls you to it; or, your arm pulls itself off of you in a spray of blood and gristle

Honestly, the first one of what would really happen if you were trying to pick something up. You don’t have the mass and stability to move something that heavy, you’ll get pulled to it.

But, let’s say you’re strapped to a crane by unbreakable chains. Then, pop-pop goes the shoulder right out of socket, tearing the flesh around it until the arm stops pulling.

Most likely, whatever would be translating your wishes to the arm would stop sending a signal after whatever connection broke, but if it was not done right, it would get ugly fast.

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