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They're bioengineering Trolls!
« on: May 29, 2008, 08:17:29 PM »
Not really, but a man did regenerate a fingertip.

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Re: They're bioengineering Trolls!
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2008, 08:21:18 PM »
WITCH!!! To the stake with him! :flame

That's crazy...
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Re: They're bioengineering Trolls!
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2008, 01:23:16 AM »
It won't take long to make something to grow an entire arm like that .... only then we will have Trolls among us :twitch

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Re: They're bioengineering Trolls!
« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2008, 02:31:00 AM »
I always figured we'd be able to regrow limbs before robotic limbs were good replacements.

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Re: They're bioengineering Trolls!
« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2008, 12:45:33 PM »
We'll know we have trolls for sure when they say that they can re-grow any severed limb, but cannot heal burns from fire or acid.
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Re: They're bioengineering Trolls!
« Reply #5 on: May 30, 2008, 06:57:00 PM »
We'll know we have trolls for sure when they say that they can re-grow any severed limb, but cannot heal burns from fire or acid.

Actually, that is the case already. :D
(They can replace burnt tissue by removing it so there is a 'normal' lack of skin which can be regrown. Burnt skin itself is useless and cannot be healed. So, had the fingertip been burnt shut, they wouldn't have been able to regenerate it without first cutting another bit off.)

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Re: They're bioengineering Trolls!
« Reply #6 on: May 30, 2008, 11:16:42 PM »
I guess it's definitive!  :smirk
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Re: They're bioengineering Trolls!
« Reply #7 on: May 31, 2008, 03:56:13 PM »
thats exatcly why I plan on going to college for bio-engineering and genetics. If you guys see news reels about engineered trolls it will be me  :sh

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Re: They're bioengineering Trolls!
« Reply #8 on: June 02, 2008, 01:42:31 PM »
Meh, regrowing fingertips happens without outside assistance for small children...
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