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So, in other words, if this technology pans out, this could be possible https://mortalkombat.fandom.com/wiki/Goro
This implies that your brain could handle 4 arms. Chances are they would just be dead limbs.
There's a fascinating (in my opinion) TED talk about this featuring the same Biologist, with examples of regenerative experiments performed using Flatworms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XheAMrS8Q1c
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>Because we (the USA) are spending most of our money on the insane military complex there is little extra public funding for actually beneficial R&D This simply isn't true at all. The US doesn't spend that much money on the military compared to other countries. Go look at federal expenditures; most are for entitlements: social security, medicare, etc. As a percentage of GDP, US expenditure on the military is nothing…
The military budget both in absolute and relative terms is ludicrous. The nations with a more irresponsible budget than the US are mostly state-terror organisations. Which doesn’t mean that the US isn’t one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_highest...
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The US budget is 6.5T USD for 2022. The US DOD budget was 753B USD for the same year. The US Medicare program was 747B USD; with another 45B USD for NIH. So the US actually spends about equal amounts on military and healthcare, at the federal level — about 11.5% on each. A better question might be why the US gets so little ROI on its healthcare spending.
A much better comparison would be to look at the proportions dedicated to research. E.g., DARPA vs NIH, not DoD vs Medicare or DoD vs NIH.
My original comparison was because Medicare and the DOD have their own funding authorities and I didn’t want to sift through their budgets to find it all.
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The US budget is 6.5T USD for 2022. The US DOD budget was 753B USD for the same year. The US Medicare program was 747B USD; with another 45B USD for NIH. So the US actually spends about equal amounts on military and healthcare, at the federal level — about 11.5% on each. A better question might be why the US gets so little ROI on its healthcare spending.
The number you’re using is deceptive. You’re citing the Dept. of Defense’s (mandatory) budget, as if that is all the funding that goes to the military. It is not. After mandatory spending (DoD mandatory funds that you cite, social security, medicare, Medicare, interest…) about 25% of the budget is left for discretionary spending… BUT, nearly half of discretionary spending is government wages that, surprise surprise,…
See page 9 and page 14.
https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudg...
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So, in other words, if this technology pans out, this could be possible https://mortalkombat.fandom.com/wiki/Goro
This implies that your brain could handle 4 arms. Chances are they would just be dead limbs.
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So, in other words, if this technology pans out, this could be possible https://mortalkombat.fandom.com/wiki/Goro
This implies that your brain could handle 4 arms. Chances are they would just be dead limbs.
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This implies that your brain could handle 4 arms. Chances are they would just be dead limbs.
Almost certainly wouldn't be an issue. There's a huge amount of plasticity in embodiment. Think about how easily we can control videogame avatars of many physical forms, or adapt ourselves to a musical instrument, or even learn 'pilot' an artificial limb.
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So, in other words, if this technology pans out, this could be possible https://mortalkombat.fandom.com/wiki/Goro
This implies that your brain could handle 4 arms. Chances are they would just be dead limbs.
So they're constantly giving you wedgies, making rude gestures to loved ones, writing bad checks, and trying to choke you out.