Here's Your Effing Jetpack: Plastic Antibodies!

[athelind]

Plastic Antibodies Effective In Living Animals!
Natural antibodies are proteins that are shaped to wrap around the molecules of a dangerous substance. The body has to be exposed to the substance to learn how to make them, and the immune system responses involved in the process can contribute to the trauma. Thing like antivenom serums are currently

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[rikoshi]

Or Qa'lana could just cut your chest open and wrap a Yuuzhan Vong bioorganism around your heart and call it a day.

[silussa]

A study comparing science fiction (often noted as being WAY out there) and reality shows that usually the science fiction is *behind* the curve in its predictions.

Just look at Star Trek's TOS "Sickbay", and then consider all the remote monitoring a typical hospital now does.

Plastic antibodies....assuming they can be normally excreted without clogging anything up, that sounds simply...well, Amazing.

More Effing Jetpack

[richardf8]

In accordance with the prophecy set forth in the opening credits of the Jetsons, the American Workplace has become, in the main, a place where one sits on one's butt pushing buttons all day.

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[athelind]

Note that the Jetsons also anticipated repetitive stress syndrome from pushing buttons all day.

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[richardf8]

"My button pushing finger is sore."

Yes, that had not escaped me.

[hafoc]

...Atomic Rocket Ship with a five-man crew (and they were all men) on their way to a fungus-covered Venus. Maintaining contact with Earth with a nuclear-powered radio that had an entire compartment of glowing vacuum tubes. And then there's the famous computer the size of the Empire State Building, all glowing tubes inside. But ya know what, if technology advanced in anything like a linear fashion, the writers who were creating things like that back in the early 1950s would have been right.

[tombfyre]

Wow, that's a rather brilliant idea right there! ^^ Lets hope these things make it into the medical world.