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This completely creeps me out.

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Continuing in the ‘just because you can doesn’t mean you should’ vein….

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For the love of all that’s holy, no.

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In an experiment, Vlasman created OSCAR, a
living, organic being formed from his own cells,
albeit one that functions with the help of tech-
nology. And if having a pocket-sized human
system crafted from organic material wasn’t in-
teresting enough, OSCAR is fully modular.
here’s where you can start thinking LEGO-like
worlds – with each part interchangeable to create unique arrangements.

In the video, recently unearthed by News-
break’s Andrei Tapalaga, Vlasman shows off
how his brain module, which is a fully electric
device, connects to his lung module. The two
immediately start interacting together. He adds
in a kidney module, and then attaches two dif-
ferent limb modules that “start actuating the or-
ganism to move.” As the organic matter starts
sliding across the table, it makes you start to
worry what OSCAR is up to.

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When I read that, I thought… it can’t get any worse.

Then I saw the video and realized yes, it can.

And did.

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If that doesn’t give you the heebie jeebies nothing will.

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39 thoughts on “This completely creeps me out.”

  15. I’ve been thinking about this far too long today and this is what I have come up with: It takes more than organs to make up a body. Here we have a heart with no blood or circulatory system, a lung without a diaphragm to drive it, a kidney with no renal system to process waste and no bladder to expel it, a brain with no nervous system to send and receive information and limbs with no skeleton to support them. It takes 18-24 hours for a surgical team to reattach a severed limb, and they have the advantage of only having to reattach existing tissue. This dude has to essentially fabricate a complete nervous system from scratch and then create the most complex interface in history so he can just plug it in wherever he wants the pieces to go. Tom Savini or Stan Winston could make that thing but it would just be a really gnarly SFX gizmo, which is what I think this is. I hope we all sleep better, nitey night.

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      1. Absolutely. That thing is an assortment of throbbing meat parts at best. You can replace severed fingers with toes, but it’s a lot more complicated than just sticking them to the stubs. This practice is Human cloning and is very widely frowned upon. I’m sure it’s bogus, and I have some pretty solid reasons for thinking that. I hope this helps.

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  16. This and AI. Seriously scary. I was reading or watching something about AI the other day and thinking about the literature and movies saying they’d take over the world and destroy us. I reckon that if they keep going with AI, AI will see humans as a serious problem to the environment and animals and then destroy us. And I don’t think AI would be wrong.

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    1. I cannot remember the titles off the top of my head, but several SF novels were written around that theme. Sometimes the AI won, but usually the real humans won.
      All of them were warnings about science gone wrong. Humans cannot keep up with technology as it is, though we can learn to use the technology without understanding its ramifications.
      Who could have predicted Climate Disasters at the start of the Industrial Revolution? No one who worked on the first atomic bombs could have predicted Putin holding the world hostage while threatenining the use of nuclear weapons as he tries to usurp Ukraine?
      The discoverors of the Internet never foresaw pedophiles stalking children on it!
      The Internet, nuclear power, and industry can all result in good things, but humans always find the bad in the good! It is what humans are good at, and why we are where we are these days. At our highest technologial level ever — One Minute Away from thr DOOMSDAY CLOCK STRIKING MIDNIGHT!!!

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  17. OMG it looks like some sort of defeathered chicken! I wish these brilliant scientific minds would focus their energies on teleportation instead of resurrecting extinct life forms or creating new semi-alive-fake-chicken-crawlers. Teleportation I could actually USE. (e.g. See you in 10 seconds, Jamaica!)

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