All we need is the brain snapshot thingy part.

Well we're getting the pig part down pat, how long before we incorporate bear?

edit: on a side note, can you use pig stem cells to grow bacon?

It's going to suck to be Jewish or Muslim with a bad heart?

It's going to suck to be Jewish or Muslim with a bad heart?

edit: on a side note, can you use pig stem cells to grow bacon?

It's going to suck to be Jewish or Muslim with a bad heart?

edit: on a side note, can you use pig stem cells to grow bacon?

I don't think it's productive to really 'go where this is going', and it's neither funny nor 'cute'.

Find me the stem cell references and bans in the Bible or Quran.

It wouldn't be Kosher to have a heart of pork.

I can't give you a ban on stem cells in the bible or Qur'an but I can provide you with prohibition of pork in Judaism and Islam, which is obviously what he was referring to.

Depending on the source of the stem cells, or maybe even disregarding the source, the Jehova's Witnesses are going to have some problems with this - their ban on 'consumption of blood' is Biblically-based and widely held, although some segments of the Jehovah's community have found rationalizations of interpretations that will allow some types of blood transfusion. You can expect this technology to hit similar roadblocks and questions within that community.

That being the case, it is not unreasonable to presume or anticipate that some of the more strictly-interpretive groups within Judaism and Islam will also have issues with this technology.

This is why we need to focus on bear more. Who wouldn't want to have the heart of a bear? And bear arms. Dirty bastards said I have the right to bear arms and I have yet to see that offered as a replacement to my current arms. I demand 2 bear arms damnit!

Depending on the source of the stem cells, or maybe even disregarding the source, the Jehova's Witnesses are going to have some problems with this - their ban on 'consumption of blood' is Biblically-based and widely held, although some segments of the Jehovah's community have found rationalizations of interpretations that will allow some types of blood transfusion. You can expect this technology to hit similar roadblocks and questions within that community.

That being the case, it is not unreasonable to presume or anticipate that some of the more strictly-interpretive groups within Judaism and Islam will also have issues with this technology.

Depending on the source of the stem cells, or maybe even disregarding the source, the Jehova's Witnesses are going to have some problems with this - their ban on 'consumption of blood' is Biblically-based and widely held, although some segments of the Jehovah's community have found rationalizations of interpretations that will allow some types of blood transfusion. You can expect this technology to hit similar roadblocks and questions within that community.

That being the case, it is not unreasonable to presume or anticipate that some of the more strictly-interpretive groups within Judaism and Islam will also have issues with this technology.

This is why we need to focus on bear more. Who wouldn't want to have the heart of a bear? And bear arms. Dirty bastards said I have the right to bear arms and I have yet to see that offered as a replacement to my current arms. I demand 2 bear arms damnit!

This is less of a blood issue and more of a organ transplant issue, which JW's have always held as an individual choice.

2nd amendment... you have the right to bear arms

Now after they can do that for human bodies, we just need to figure out how to transfer neurological activity from one brain to another...

That could lead to the use of "seda-gives"

Actually, many billions have been thrown at spinal cord injuries.
It's just an extremely difficult problem to solve. Biology is... resistant to your normal physics-based research methods. There is no standard 'human.' There is no standard model which accurately represents a sufficiently large percentage of the population, either. Living biology has a very rude habit of being individual, and it can't be forced into a nice neat boax - It's always breaking out and doing weird ****.

Including, sometines, helpfully weird ****, like what stem cells do.

Meh... I bet if the research were turned towards bigger breasts or reducing baldness instead of actually saving lives, it would have all the funding in the world. That's what sucks about the medical industry. They'll have men giving birth to ass babies (future forum trolls) but oh look, paralyzed from the neck down for life? Sorry, can't help that.