Could you fcking not.
Submitted 23 hours ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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XPost3000@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
devilish666@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
OpenStars@piefed.social 16 hours ago
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 20 hours ago
I’m wondering what it would be like to keep the metabolism of a brain-dead organism going and controlling it via the nervous system, thereby creating a cyborg (but in reverse as opposed to most sci-fi ones).
Like, imagine an irrecoverable comatose patient whose every speech-related nerve is tapped. Using machine learning, one could create a neural network that maps all muscle movements to sounds and vice versa. The setup could then play any waveform to just about the best of the vocal tract’s ability – in short, turning the body into a peak beatboxer. (With multiple such cyborgs or a looper, one could achieve arbitrary precision at recreating sound waves! There can be actual uses too, like letting paralyzed people speak again, but I all can think of is whether the paper of this research ends up using Bad Apple!! or Never Gonna Give You Up as the demo song, and whether there’s going to be an acapella band touring with effectively propped-up corpses.)
GraniteM@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Lumidaub@feddit.org 20 hours ago
Hello, shut up.
(Failing that, write a book, call it The Torment Nexus 2: Brain-Dead Boogaloo - that’s a societally accepted way to deal with these thoughts, but do avoid talking about this at convivial gatherings, please, okay, thank you, goodbye.)
(T_T)
not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
This is the basic premise of Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie. But it’s a lot less nice than that.
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 14 hours ago
They are going to make you work even when you are dead
Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
This makes me feel sad.
latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 hours ago
I have deep-seated arachnophobia and deeply appreciate the grotesque, and I still feel so bad for the spiders, c’mon! I at least hope they died of natural causes well before someone decided to try using them as a grabber toy… Like, at least that!
ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 21 hours ago
I’m guessing you missed the “Euthanize spider” slide with a little snowflake icon.
latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 hours ago
I haven’t seen that one, no!:( It just starts with the spider gripping a raspberry:(
tribut@infosec.pub 20 hours ago
You missed the part where the first step was
a) Euthanize Spider
Damage@feddit.it 18 hours ago
Well I guess you missed the memes about what we do to horseshoe crabs
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
You didn’t just miss “euthanize spider” but also the very “humanely” way of slowly freezing it to death for 5 days. And I share your thoughts. I really really really hate spiders, but I love them. As they’re fascinating creatures with incredible abilities. If that makes sense. Also very useful.
Lumidaub@feddit.org 20 hours ago
Why is Goku here?
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Maybe because Goku has been revived multiple times
fossilesque@mander.xyz 15 hours ago
Why not?
Lumidaub@feddit.org 14 hours ago
Definitely. Just wondering, because usually there’s a reason people put stuff in videos.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Cause tiny grabbers are just that hard to make?
Would this work with a tarantula?
Sorry for mentioning that
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
My mind did not go straight to a sex thing. That would be horrible.
Lumidaub@feddit.org 19 hours ago
Did it saunter gaily to a sex thing?
altphoto@lemmy.today 15 hours ago
Finally a solution for ED that works without side effects!
scrion@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
If my limbs would operate using hydraulics, I’d love for my dead body to be repurposed like that. Mount my carcass on a mobile platform and have me grab things from the top shelf while I shed flakes of decaying flesh, constantly surrounded by the scent of rancid fat and formaldehyde. Give me purpose beyond death.
truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 19 hours ago
Even in death I serve the Omnissiah.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Glory to the emperor undying and his ninth house (i know flesh is more of an every house but 5 and 9 thing)
leds@feddit.dk 1 hour ago
Any news on the next book?