worlds first head transplant planned for 2017

[Geordie Spark]

ive seen a video of the monkey head transplant and it was disgusting to watch, do not google it you will wish you hadnt i watched it on tv a few years ago

I think you have just described my ex-wife there.

 

[tidyboiler]

I think you have just described my ex-wife there.

:rofl: bit of an insult to monkeys...... they are intelligent!! :dita:

 

[Geordie Spark]

I would like to nominate Ed Millipede for the first head transplant. He's one very weird looking chancer.

 

[Geordie Spark]

:rofl: bit of an insult to monkeys...... they are intelligent!! :dita:

You never met her.

You may like her if you did. :laugh:

 

[snowhead]

T They both have to be swapped over together, live, and in nine seconds.

I really don't know how it's possible?!

Parallel connections, maintaining correct polarity and synchronising both supplies of course..

 

[tidyboiler]

You never met her.

You may like her if you did. :laugh:

I didn't need to!!.. Just looking at her clothes gave it away. :rofl: (and no I wouldn't...... )

 

[VoltzElectrical]

I thought there were two supplies to the head, one on each side. The Carotid arteries take blood to the head and the Jugular veins take the blood away.

Totally impossible to remove a head and maintain oxegenated blood to the brain in the time frames needed for brain function to remain normal if at all. If this procedure WAS 'successful' then the patient would wake up like me. If the patient wants that, then crack on dudes!

 

[plugsandsparks]

I'm puzzled why they call it a 'head' transplant and not a body transplant. They're not giving a person a new head because as soon as the head is replaced it's actually a new person. They're actually giving a head a new body.

I like the sound of that. I need a new back, knee, foot, right shoulder and the liver and lungs are probably due a service. At some point a full body transplant, preferably an 18 year old descendant of Usain Bolt, makes more sense. Is it really difficult ? and on the NHS ?

 

[rapparee]

They chill the body temperature to 10-15 °C, this will supposedly slow everything down and give them the time to operate

 

[Jonspark]

They could of course do the procedure in zero gravity where time is much slower than on earth, or in a black hole would be better.