JANUARY 5, 2009 10:20AM

Come One, Come All. Get Your New People Parts

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For more than forty years physicians have been replacing worn out knee and hip joints.

Internal organs are replaced even though they are riddled with rejection problems.

External flaws, the ravages of aging and excess fat have people lining up at the body sculptors’ workshops.

According to CNN

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2009/01/03/connery.uk.bionic.knuckles.cnn

scientists have perfected bionic knuckles made of space age materials that prevent rejection by the body to give new life to old hands that are ravaged by arthritis.

All this body part replacement needs some reconsideration.

I rather like to compare our bodies to automobiles.

Put a new engine in an old car and it puts stress on the older un-replaced parts and they conk out.

Give a person a new efficient pump and it will put stress on weak old kidneys that can’t keep up.

Therefore, once our bones have finished growing and we’re fully matured adults (yeah, like that ever happens to our brains, anyway).

Brain transplants, anyone? But then you wouldn’t be you; you’d be him or her.

We should have all our body parts replaced at the same time before they all conk out like old auto parts.

Why put up with the crummy ones nature doled out to us?

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I could use some new lungs and sinuses today as I have cold...
I could use a new brain today. I think mine's broken.
Nice post. Whimsy mixed with sci fi.
I like my brain--wouldn't mind moving it to a new improved body... but I'll live with what I got!