This technology already exists and there is something like Elysium that already exists. We are dealing with a breakaway
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eolloe — 11 years ago(May 15, 2014 09:04 PM)
Yes, theoretically it will be possible. As will diagnostic handheld scanners and teleporters, a la Star Trek.
Just consider a 3D printer.
The level of sophistication seen in the machines depicted in the film won't be available in the lifetime of anyone who is alive in 2013 (assuming maximum human lifespan is still 112 years 112 years from now). But these technologies will be available eventually.
That assumes, of course, we aren't wiped out by climate change or nuclear (or germ warfare) holocaust before then. -
lorddeseiz — 11 years ago(May 24, 2014 12:01 PM)
Someone much smarter then me:
Plausible? not only just plausible but very very ensured. Theres already theories that the first human to live a 1000 year or more is already alive today.
Technology is making monsterleaps every few decades. There is nonstop research into medical science so its not a question if med bay technology is plausible, its just a question of when.
Where we are now it just seems, illogical fantastic nonsense. If you asked the guy that invented the bow if there would ever be weapons that could fire off a serie of bullets in matter of seconds and each and every single bullet hitting the target that is a mile away, he would probably laugh at you and declare you insane.
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http://www.imdb.com/list/4zXrE3AAzT4/ -
eolloe — 11 years ago(May 25, 2014 11:26 AM)
Theres already theories that the first human to live a 1000 year or more is already alive today.
The Steward: And last but not least, our very special guest Ladies and gentlemen and trees and multiforms, consider the Earth below. In memory of this dying world, we call forth the last human
[Rose goes to step forward but the doors open and a piece of skin stretched on a frame, accompanied by two attendants, comes in]
The Steward: The Lady Cassandra O'Brien dot Delta 17.
Cassandra: Oh now, don't stare. I know. I know. It's shocking, isn't it? I've had my chin completely taken away. And look at the difference! Look how thin I am. Thin and dainty. I don't look a day over two thousand.
[to one of her attendants]
Cassandra: Moisturise me, moisturise me.
[the attendant sprays her]
Cassandra: Truly, I am the last human. My father was a Texan, my mother was from the Arctic desert. They were born on the Earth and they were the last to be buried in its soil. I have come to honour them and say goodbye. -
digvisgrp — 11 years ago(June 03, 2014 12:00 PM)
It is coming. Lasers are being used for many types of cell stimulation and we are only at the beginning.
Here is a perfect example:
http://news.msn.com/science-technology/a-nice-bright-smile-scientists- use-lasers-to-regrow-teeth
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/science/2014/05/28/laser-light-trigger s-stem-cells-regrow-teeth/esb9dQxOWVsQQj27fGdEiP/story.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110811083820.htm
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/259450234_Low-level_laser_stim ulation_on_adipose-tissue-derived_stem_cell_treatments_for_focal_cereb ral_ischemia_in_rats -
Kaiser50 — 11 years ago(November 25, 2014 09:39 AM)
I read about that in Wired. Apparently it's being developed by the military right now.
Medicine seems to have reached some sort of tipping point in its growth as the biological sciences and computing are joining forces. Many are predicting a wave of innovation of the sort of scale, rapidity and massive consequences as the first great wave from about 1870-1910 that gave us most of the technologies we are familiar with today.
The only thing about the Med-Bays that I found unrealistic was the rebuilding of tissue out of thin air, to perfect symmetry with the original tissue, like when they rebuilt Kruger's face. That and the fact that apparently they hadn't developed a cure for 'dickhead syndrome' yet, as he came out as much of a douchebag as when he went in.
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leonthecleaner-1 — 11 years ago(January 21, 2015 07:22 PM)
I also want to believe we will hopefully make this sort of tech but right now we can't even cure common cold. Also lots of doctor misinformation out there. When you go to a doctor, perhaps a computer doctor, your diagnosis should be perfect, no "maybe this" or "maybe that", trials and errors. Nor "we can't xray for this, it's too expensive", etc.
With all the collective medical knowledge, within the same country, we aren't even able to pull a patient's file from another province/state. Now these are embarrassing problems. -
Kaiser50 — 11 years ago(January 21, 2015 08:22 PM)
Well, medicine is a field that is 'ripe for disruption', in Silicon Valley parlance. We must keep in mind that the medical establishment that is in need of fixing has only been 'established' for 70 years - it developed after WW2. Before the war medicine wasn't really a big enough field for that to happen! My great hope is that powerful emerging technologies will combine with ever-increasing computing power out of pure necessity, to confront one stark societal fact - 75 million Baby Boomers in their 50s and 60s, and the oldest of which are just about to hit 70 this year. It is an overwhelming demographic force.
The Boomers are the wealthiest and best-educated people of their age in history, familiar with technology and suspicious of monolithic, slow-moving corporate entities. They saw how the combination of very long lives and a poor understanding of degenerative illness by the medical establishment resulted in long, drawn-out mental and physical decline for many of their parents, and will do whatever it takes to keep that from being their fate.
Kaiser -
5535 — 11 years ago(February 19, 2015 08:26 AM)
I think this is all possible, though not for a very long time.
There would need to be another tank with human tissue, cells etc for the med bay to take from in order to repair whoever was inside of it. Also, I think it would have to be more robotic, even if with tiny robots, as oppose to just a laser scanning over the person. Nano bots would need to go into the body and repair the damaged sections, and the nano bots would need to have a brain and mind of their own in order to do so.
In the next 50 years, I could see us having a med bay 25% as good as the one in the movie, but not more advanced than that. It would have skin regeneration abilities, as well as providing sutures and healing gels, and would be able to provide smart bots to fix bone breaks and such. I also believe that MRI's could be conducted with the ability to actually heal some brain trauma through the use of waves which could help mend bleeding and injuries. Little nano bots would also be around to send through the blood stream, which could also travel to the brain to fix leaks, and clots (Doubt clotting will be an issue in 50 years), brain tissue damage and damage to other areas of the body. -
nomanjohan — 10 years ago(May 06, 2015 02:52 PM)
No
. Humans can't even create a single molecule or cell of any living or non-living organism; We are only capable of changing forms of what's already there by manipulating properties of other materials or catalysts that are already there as well. -
nomanjohan — 10 years ago(May 06, 2015 02:56 PM)
No
. Humans can't even create a single molecule or cell of any living or non-living organism; We are only capable of changing the forms of something what's already there by manipulating properties of other materials or catalysts that are already there as well. -
iCode_v2 — 10 years ago(May 14, 2015 06:13 AM)
Don't know if it's possible to have med bays like that.
Time will tell.
What I do know is that the phone I have in my pocket right now has twice the storage space and god knows how many times the computing power that was used for the entire first manned mission to the moon, so I wouldn't rule it out. -
neihrick — 9 years ago(April 28, 2016 03:24 AM)
Matter of time. Recent success with harvesting stem cells from skin come to mind. Maybe building up a personal bank of stem cells to heal future injuries. Studies with telomerase enzyme reversing aging, and the auf1 gene extending life and controlling cancer give me hope; as well as learning how naked mole rats are cancer free.