Surgeons pioneer zero-gravity op
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Man, could you imagine a good artery rupture at zero g. Everything would just float around in the air.😱
Ha., good point. Glad nothing like that happened though ...
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It seems like more of a publicity stunt than research.
This guy will get his name in the history books for sure, but how many decades or centuries away are we from actually needing space doctors. And might they not have artificial gravity by that time.
Probably cost a whole lot of $$$. At least it wasn't American taxpayers paying to stroke this one man's ego.
This guy will get his name in the history books for sure, but how many decades or centuries away are we from actually needing space doctors. And might they not have artificial gravity by that time.
Probably cost a whole lot of $$$. At least it wasn't American taxpayers paying to stroke this one man's ego.
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Lets now debate the feasability of artificial gravity. I just don't think it's possible to artificially create it.
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Yeah it is. You can create a circular space station that rotates on its axis. And the inside of the circle is the "ground".
Seen in many science fiction movies, and considered to be a fairly realistic possibility for the future.
Seen in many science fiction movies, and considered to be a fairly realistic possibility for the future.
In order to go to space we have to understand the human body in space as well ...
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These guys removed a cyst from a patient's arm, a procedure you could do in an ER (not an OR) in 5 minutes or less. I guess they proved you can do that in zero-g, but so what? I could have told you that would be possible in zero-g. But what about some MAJOR surgery where you've got a lot of bleeding into the operative field? Normally, here on Earth, we suction up that stuff. In zero-g, it would be all over the place.
Maybe major surgery is possible in space, but this showboating "experiment" does not prove anything we couldn't have already figured out. 😡
Maybe major surgery is possible in space, but this showboating "experiment" does not prove anything we couldn't have already figured out. 😡
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It seems like we've been going to space just fine for 40 some years, without the need to do heart transplant surgeries up there.
Hell, here on Earth, in 99.999999999999% of the places we are not doing surgeries. If someone needs a surgery they don't get at a football stadium, or on an airplane, or in a McDonald's bathroom, or at the South Pole, they go to a hospital and get it.
This experiment just falls under "garbage, publicity grabbing" science, which there seems to be alot of these days.
I mean if I want to be a jackass like this Frenchie, I could do brain surgery on a submarine. And then I could say, "Hey look, I've proved that you can do brain surgery on a submarine! Now in the future those who need brain surgeries and happen to be on submarines can get it done right there if they want." But WTF would the point of that be? Am I the only one considering the practicality of this?
And with space it's even more ******ed. How many people are up in space at any given time? Like 4? At least there are a few thousand guys on submarines.
