We are coming closer and closer to a better hart than the "original". If harts become independant of external support, it could be a good standard replacement. Cyborgs rise. Less chance of diseases, better sustained heartrate, use kevlar or titanium to make it stab/bulletproof.
Creepy. But wth our next evolution hopefully solves that for us.
No, we're not. Our scientific progress isn't even in the same galaxy as the "original." The human heart is a precision orchestration of muscle and nerves that performs exactly the same way over 100,000 per day for up to 100 years without a single second of failure.
We don't manufacture anything that comes anywhere close to that, particularly in terms of longevity. The current most successful artificial heart -- the AbioCor -- has an estimated lifespan of 1-2 years. It delays, but does not prevent, imminent death due to incurable coronary failure.
To be sure, these are incredible advances, but we are lightyears from any permanent mechanical replacement for a biological heart.
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We are coming closer and closer to a better hart than the "original".
If harts become independant of external support, it could be a good standard replacement. Cyborgs rise.
Less chance of diseases, better sustained heartrate, use kevlar or titanium to make it stab/bulletproof.
Creepy. But wth our next evolution hopefully solves that for us.
Isn't a hart a kind of deer?
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Interesting. I tried to make a "We Heart Borg" joke, but the comment system seems to choke on angle brackets.
Doesn't choke, it strips HTML
No, we're not. Our scientific progress isn't even in the same galaxy as the "original." The human heart is a precision orchestration of muscle and nerves that performs exactly the same way over 100,000 per day for up to 100 years without a single second of failure.
We don't manufacture anything that comes anywhere close to that, particularly in terms of longevity. The current most successful artificial heart -- the AbioCor -- has an estimated lifespan of 1-2 years. It delays, but does not prevent, imminent death due to incurable coronary failure.
To be sure, these are incredible advances, but we are lightyears from any permanent mechanical replacement for a biological heart.