First human head transplant

Interesting and inevitable, but the last part is scary.

The rich will start to order their bodies from prisoners due to be killed, back to the days of the guillotine?

They should leave the old head on the body so the new head has a friend.

This could do wonders for our transgendered community, People could just trade

al

It will also do wonders for our porn industry.

I have a couple of questions...

1. Is it a head transplant or a body transplant?

2. Can Claude get his head transplanted on a sasquatch body so his head is finally somewhat proportional with his body?

Thanks in advance...

Nightmare Scenario:

You wake up to find you got a noo body.

It is scary, but actually, that is soooo my kinda butt.

An' my muscle memory got violin playin' sinew deep?

I am on it.

Best part: I get now how you can let out farts without bein' noticed.

So, you cruise it for mebbe 5 years, all perky butt an' covert wafto concerto.

An' then the doc calls to say your old body is gtg.

An' Ms Indescribably Beautiful Tits wants her old curvature back.

Nightmare scenario:

You wake up to find you got a noo body.

It is scary — an' this time it is for real.

When's the funeral?

It could open a new fitness industry, where you pay someone else to get in shape, then swap bodies.

It was a "trick" question...the thread is about human head transplants, which obviously excludes Claude.

how about a human dink transplant

Well, at least the heads body is apparently crippled. The description is INCREDIBLY over simplified. They skip over the ONLY part they have virtually no ability to do within the next few decades, and that apparently has never been done. Even Star trek said it had never been done, even in the 23rd century.
They ended up saving spock by hooking up the vocal cords before bones forgot how, and somehow keeping spock awake. Spock then told him if he hit the right nerve Although they do that kind of thing with some brain surgery, they wouldn't suggest doing that here.

Do people even know if the nerves are all connected the same way? We DO know FOR A FACT that the chance of two different pieces of spinal cord lining up, even if there were a piece to do so existed, has just about 0 chance of working, due to the difference in growth and position. And that is assuming everything else were precisely the same.

They talk about the spinal cord as if it were like a wire. It ISN'T! It is like a wiring HARNESS! And I hope they remember to hook up the vagus nerve! The vagus nerve is like the most important one and, interestingly, it isn't from the spinal cord. Even nearly every single paralyzed person has a intact vagus nerve. I don't recall a single person that didn't. IT is ALSO a wiring harness, but they could probably get away with only hooking a few up correctly.

Oh well, if he ends up paralyzed, as I believe he will, it looks like he won't miss it.

Steve

Why don't they try this.... put a human head on a chimp and then the chimp head goes onto that human body??? That would prove if evolution is real or not, if you came from a monkey!

Just been in the SEO forum and it looks like a lot of people have donated their brains to science before they posted.

We call those "Claude".