God doesn’t help amputees, but science does:
Update: Video fixed.
New Robotic Hand Can Feel
October 21, 2009 By 34 Comments
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Um, I think you linked the wrong video. This is that near-miss crossing-the-street video I recently saw.
This was a pretty darned cool vid though…must’ve had angels watching over him…or is that angles…
By extension, this must mean the guy that got his car smashed in the process had no angel to watch over him.
Or angles. Darn those rhombuses.
Rhombi are the Devil’s parallelogram.
Oops, thanks guys!
musta been a robotic bus driver.
Glad I got to see it before you corrected it. Indeed cool.
The hand’s even cooler.
There’s a neat elaboration of this on Mind Hacks. Seems like there’s some interesting phantom sensations going on there.
That is SO cool.
This is how Skynet started…
AWWWW FU…..
I give it five minutes before some religious amputee gets ahold of one of those and thanks god for his blessings.
Well, it’s all part of the tradition. A doctor saves their life, they thank skydaddy. A seatbelt saves their life, skydaddy gets credit. They beat the living shite out of their opponent in a boxingmatch, and skydaddy allowed them to do that. It’s all so convenient. :)
it is like the walmart of credit.
lol a tornado destroys the church hall the congregation was using for shelter – 50 children die – thank skydaddy for the ones that survived.
Thank God I have two hands.
Daniel: The “Why Doesn’t God Heal Amputees” web site you link is incredibly effective if you can get a religious person to sit still long enough to read it. Just asking the question discombobulates ‘em.
It’s one of my favorites, as well as http://godisimaginary.com
Let me hear him speak instead :(
When will they have ones that can rip a truck in two?
Cuz that’s what I want.
You’re gonna have to wait for the full skeletal replacement for that, Ty.
But I want it now!
Science is Real
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty33v7UYYbw
That is great. Science is real.
have to say this video makes me kinda sad. Are we not born into the great transition of mankind? The vast swath of truly mind blowing discoveries, cures, breakthroughs etc. seem just around the corner…barely out of our useful reach. Some might also say we are at the tail end of the great age of prosperity – global warming and a long age of human suffering are next…
Yummy, is he hot or what. The hand is really cool though, I wonder what else it can do……
Skynet, here we come!
But seriously, this is awesome.
Come on now, we ALL know what the first thing we’d do is – we’re talking about a young, virile man who’s been without Mrs. Palm and her five lovely daughters for years! That’s right. He’d be straight down the pub for a game of darts.
“That’s right. He’d be straight down the pub for a game of darts.”
That’s… uh… not what I was expecting you to say. >.<
It is interesting he is wearing a Gandhi t-shirt. Gandhi was a Luddite.
More things god can’t do, but science does! http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091021012847.htm
Just two things to say:
1) Luke will be pleased.
2) I’m not impressed until it can…er….give you a helping hand.