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science fiction becomes reality — maybe

BBC NEWS | Health | Surgeons oppose face transplants

The Royal College of Surgeons has urged doctors not to carry out facial transplants.

I understand the reasons why this is considered a risky notion, more for psychological reasons than health considerations. But what if this has already been done, for less than honorable intent?

What if it’s already been done? It occurs to me that it would be *easier* to do this with a celebrity/famous person since they mix with a small number of people who may or may not be in the scheme.

This was written by paul. Posted on Wednesday, November 19, 2003, at 6:21 AM. Filed under the value of X. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

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  1. Fidel Davila wrote:

    A major reason Apple can program so fast is Cocoa. Object oriented language are well know to speed up development.

    I do not know what Window OS is written in but if it is C, or C++ development is tedious and problems are the rule.

    Finally, with Xcode, Apple development cycle should get even faster.

    Thursday, November 20, 2003 at 9:22 AM | Permalink