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[MetalSlimeHunt]

if it did happen, how would it be easy to stop?

Even a weak magnetic field would do the trick, you can't exactly emp harden something that small. Or just jam them, causing them to immediately cease communicating and become useless. Any concussive force would work. Etc, etc.

[penguinofhonor]

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[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

Sigh.....


I wonder if we are anywhere near STIMpack technology.
For those that haven't played fallout, a  STIMpack is an injection that can instantly fix flesh wounds or directly heal bones or even concussions.

[smeeprocket]

yeeea that's fictional. We probably won't ever have that.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

But self replicating nanobots is entirly plausible
No one really knows what STIMpacks are, they could easy be nano bots that heal wounds then die and get filtered out


Also it's not that implausible to quickly heal bone, god knows we've got plenty of crazier stuff that we've already pulled off

[smeeprocket]

if the bone wasn't properly set or was shattered there could be some nasty results to quickly healing it.

Certainly not a "stab myself in the arm and inject some nanobots" type of thing.

[~Neri]

I plan on getting a tail once it's deemed plausible and safe.

[penguinofhonor]

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[~Neri]

Prolly fox ears for me.

[smeeprocket]

I would like to get my ears pointed, which is totally possible atm.

I just need a competent body modifier to do it and some cash.

[~Neri]

There's a guy who got coral implanted into his head for antlers.

[smeeprocket]

There's a guy who got coral implanted into his head for antlers.

seems like you would either absorb coral or it would reject. I haven't been paying to body modification breakthroughs in awhile so maybe. It seems like it would be hard to heal that at best, though.

[i2amroy]

But self replicating nanobots is entirly plausible
No one really knows what STIMpacks are, they could easy be nano bots that heal wounds then die and get filtered out

Also it's not that implausible to quickly heal bone, god knows we've got plenty of crazier stuff that we've already pulled off

I could certainly see quick sealing of flesh wounds with some sort of nano-injection thing to hold your blood in and promote wound healing (maybe mix some stem cells or something similar in there to speed things up), but I don't really see it actually being able to fix you with flesh. As calculations have shown, if you try and pull the amount of energy you need to fix even medium cuts out of your body at once you end up starving yourself, and to reconstruct it with technology would require the nanobots to recognize exactly how your body was constructed before on the cellular level, something that is going to be different for every person.

Really I don't think we're going to be going too much farther on first aid battlefield medicine for quite some time. My guess is that most of our upcoming developments are going to be in making it easier to carry hospital equipment to and from battlefield hospitals, and less on quick fix first aid stuff.

I plan on getting anything that lets me expand my senses once it's deemed plausible and safe.

There's already a few (mechanical) things that expand senses other than the basic 5 out there. For example there are tiny magnets you can put into your fingertips to let you sense nearby magnetic fields, or things like the North Paw that you can use to augment your sense of direction.

[smeeprocket]

Shadowrun promised me cybernetic implants. I am still waiting to be able to plug myself into the internet via the back of my skull...

And download a virus that erases my memory.

[Caz]

And download a virus that erases my memory.

Dude. Then I could watch Firefly all over again.