Would that mean I'm technically dead, though?

Sep 21, 2006 14:13

Artificial hearts don't have to "beat" in order to workI mean...it only makes sense: as long as the blood keeps circulating, it does not need to keep circulating in "pulses" the way it does when pushed through our bloodstreams by an annoying clenching muscle ( Read more... )

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dj_lollidrop September 21 2006, 18:22:38 UTC
Worse, they'll accuse you of being able to make penises disappear!

:-P

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oneirophrenia September 21 2006, 18:26:56 UTC
Dude! We could totally be pulseless wonders! Prodigies of a Prodigal Age!

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lyssabard September 21 2006, 19:06:21 UTC
And then all the little babybat honies would be chasing you, begging you to turn them and give them eternal life and...

You know, I see no problems here....

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aidinslevel September 21 2006, 20:18:23 UTC
And the non beating heart would be different from that thing in your chest now, how again..... O_o

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oneirophrenia September 21 2006, 20:54:51 UTC
Oh, I still have a heartbeat...my blood's just ice cold and my heart, frozen and black and dead. :) You know, 'cause I'm a goth like dat.

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aidinslevel September 21 2006, 20:58:13 UTC
And all along I kept believing you when you said you were *heartless*

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tlttlotd September 22 2006, 02:07:45 UTC
The only way you could pull that line off is if you were wearing the humpty-hump hat, a Hawaiian shirt, and flip-flops.

And they'd STILL be all over you.

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inmostlight September 21 2006, 22:25:32 UTC
Then some stupid bastard would probably try to run a stake through me or shoot my head off, no doubt.

Admit it, is there anybody here who doesn't expect that to be the way you die? I mean, you work at the newspaper, I figured you already had the obit prepared ahead of time.

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