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[AlohaDawg]

Theoretically. The issue here is more "nobody particularly wants this research to be done,"

On humans, anyway. I'm sure if we ever find the lost notebooks of Joseph Mengele we'll find that it was tried more than once.

[V-Adore]

On humans, anyway. I'm sure if we ever find the lost notebooks of Joseph Mengele we'll find that it was tried more than once.

Well... yes, but research conducted by Joseph Mengele is in no way even slightly germane to discussion of modern neuroscience. You know, because we don't kill people.

[AlohaDawg]

Yeah, IRB's have this way of stopping people from doing that kind of research.

Mengele's notebook is probably in China, where they've replicated the experiments on dissdients shortly before harvesting their skin for beauty products.

[V-Adore]

Yeah, IRB's have this way of stopping people from doing that kind of research.

Seriously, what part of "nobody wants to do this sort of thing even were it legal and capable of getting a grant" isn't clear here?

[miles]

Hmmm. It depends how you define "come back to life." Certainly you can electrically stimulate severed body parts to move, and residual signaling or nerve contact may allow for some motion after death; I have a couple of really gross stories I could tell here, but I won't. There's also the old story that decapitated heads remain alive for a short period of time after being decapitated, which is plausible enough (since it would take time for the brain cells to die of oxygen deprivation, presumably) but for obvious reasons is sort of difficult to verify. I suppose, if you had a setup where you decapitated somebody and instantly reconnected their head to some sort of artificial circulatory system, they could remain alive, although many low-budget horror movies have established that this is a bad idea.

Also, how do we define "someone has officially died?" If it's heart failure, the above stands; if it's braindeath, then that's pretty much curtains for the head.

Thanks Uncle Cecil.

[AlohaDawg]

Seriously, what part of "nobody wants to do this sort of thing even were it legal and capable of getting a grant" isn't clear here?

Where do you get the idea it's being promoted? I'll grant you that no ethical scientist would find value in such a line of research but I'm  betting there's people out there whose personal or professional values don't preclude giving it a go. No reason to get too worked up about the question, though.

Defining death gets you into the whole Terry Schiavo problem eventually and defining life gets you into the whole pro-choice/pro-life argument eventually. Tough ones to get into without people getting emotional or at least passionate. I'm staying away from the beach on that one.

[LCB]

Have you considered that Keith Moon may hide a horrible secret?

That even as Ray and Teodor watch the angry head of Keith Moon move about in it's container, a head which was definitely cut off of Keith Moon, thousands of miles away in a secret room Keith Moon's body stands upright, unaided and perfectly still. Where the stump of the neck should be, a bright pinkish lump of what appears to be scar tissue throbs and pulsates, and grows. Slowly but surely, what appear to be facial features can be seen in the moist tissue as it grows and elongates into a shape roughly like a human head over the course of long hours...

[melack]

Strip returns Friday! If there was some way to give ten thousand negative tiny cans of dr. pepper to Onstad's sense of puncuality, I would most certainly do it.

[jough]

Told ya.

[rrh]

This is why Philippe brought a ladle.

[executioneer]

[littlefallsmets]

Come to think of it, it'd be pretty rad if Keith Moon's head became more personable upon the boys plying him with libations and sharing with them the secret of some hidden pirate gold. You know? Just to see how far Chris can get, just going from one weird plot twist after another, while making it all feel as though its the same plotline.