Timeline for Would carbon fiber be a good choice to strengthen human bones, and how would that work?
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| Oct 5, 2018 at 21:22 | comment | added | elemtilas | Oh I agree: Every woman alive today, who has access to modern gynecological care is the beneficiary of grossly unethical experimentation done on human beings of the recent past. But you're looking to the future. Though you don't say how far, I can only hope that medical ethics & human morality won't be further down the toilet than they are now! Now, you make good points about sources of knowledge. It's not really my point to argue medical ethics with you! For my part, let's just assume that benevolent aliens provided the basic knowledge and nothing unethical had to be done to apply it to Man! | |
| Oct 5, 2018 at 16:49 | comment | added | Horik | Hmm, you have a point. Though I don’t suppose the morality of their predecessors would matter to them all that much. Heck, they might even consider it a noble sacrifice or something. Alternatively, the knowledge could’ve come from somewhere else, like some predecessor species or some such. I dunno, I’ll have to give that some thought. | |
| Oct 5, 2018 at 2:51 | comment | added | elemtilas | Okay, understood. Yeah, it's not the soldiers themselves that are behaving unethically. They are simply the future beneficiaries. The science and human experimentation to get to that point will really end up being an exercise in the immoral. Eventually, they'll have to experiment on someone's baby. And probably hundreds until they get it right... | |
| Oct 5, 2018 at 2:26 | comment | added | Horik | I meant that it wouldn’t be treated as unethical or dehumanizing. They’d view it as a sort of honorable sacrifice or some such. But I was also hoping it could be done genetically, so that it’d grow in the bones from infancy. | |
| Oct 5, 2018 at 2:21 | comment | added | elemtilas | @Horik --- I'm not sure how this follows... | |
| Oct 4, 2018 at 16:11 | comment | added | Horik | I was actually thinking this kind of augmentation would be reserved only for the most successful warriors in their culture. The general idea was a sort of halfway house between Vulcans and Saiyans. Cold and warlike, but also morally upright and just. I’d figured they would have a whole suite of augmentations for the warrior caste to allow them to better combat their enemies and protect their people. | |
| Oct 4, 2018 at 0:58 | comment | added | elemtilas | The human body doesn't produce carbon fibres naturally. Surgery is almost never a good idea. Medical science and technology progress : the human body does not. It does not like being cut open and abused. To do what you want "naturally", I'd suggest some far advanced genetic nano-technology coupled with a solid foundation in genetic manipulation coupled with a culture of dehumanisation required to get to that point. Terribly, horribly unethical stuff you want, but that's the road you'll want to go down! | |
| Oct 4, 2018 at 0:21 | comment | added | Horik | See, I was thinking this would be something the body produced naturally. Augmenting the body by means of surgery might not be a bad idea, particularly not with the presumably advanced medical science of a space-faring race. I figured though that a “natural” means of reinforcement would be preferable. | |
| Oct 3, 2018 at 5:25 | history | answered | elemtilas | CC BY-SA 4.0 |