Well… F. Just F. Not in the grade sense, in the first letter of a four letter word sense. I’m no longer sure there will be an answer, partly because you can effectively do what you want… And I love that. I love not knowing that someone will survive, as opposed to the standard for, say, Doctor Who, which is not knowing how they survive.
So Rikk and Rumy are “mind-switch impaired”, huh? Fair enough.
I really can’t congratulate you guys enough (both Mr. Campbell and Mr. Waltrip) for how you portrayed Rikk here. I can see Rikk wanting to live (is he even out of his 20’s yet?), but at the same time, I see how he can really be at peace with the idea of not being able to stave off death this time. Great job, I mean it.
That being said, I think that Animal’s blood thing is definitely worth a shot. Failing that, I would be very disappointed if Rikk’s friends don’t at least consider using the 23-sider as a desperate last shot.
See, Fritz, this is what irresponsible mad-science-ing results in. You accidentally cause the Jesus-analogue’s life to be impossible to save. You’re a good guy/dragon, and I’m sure you learned from your mistakes, but you have to be more careful.
Welp, time for the team to abduct Animal, drain him of all his blood, and become guilty of kidnapping, terrorism, and who-knows-what else, thus playing into the new villains’ plans. I hate it when new villains are instantly this successful. 😛
Dang. Rikk being …, *mortal* is …, I don’t know. Sobering. Like a friend of mine says “SOBER” stands for: Son Of a B1tch! Everything is Real! I know this sounds weird, but a fictional character is going into my prayers.
So? What’s the big deal? Create a body, and physically transfer Rikk’s brain into the new body. So long as his brain doesn’t carry the disease, or the new body is inorganic, the only real problem should be the reattachment of nerves and possibly rejection from an organic body. Honestly, I’m disappointed that a so-called ‘mad’ scientist didn’t think to use Frankensteins methods.
Just ‘cuz this is science-fiction doesn’t mean every theoretical procedure or technology is suddenly fair game. I don’t think whole-body transplant is out just because Fitz never thought to use it. It’s probably just not possible.
‘Sides, cloning new life just to harvest it for parts is all kinds of wrong.
Well, is it really alive if it doesn’t have its own brain? Cause Artificer said it was nonorganic anyway. It could basically be a homunculus – an artificial human body, just to hold Rikk’s brain.
Still, I agree. They haven’t tried it because not everything is possible yet. Buuut there are still plenty of ways to get rid of the Syndrome. What I haven’t figured out is, why don’t they know just what it is yet? They’ve isolated it well enough to test for it, and yet they’re still claiming to not know just what it is, aside from “some kind of disease that produces these symptoms?
The “create a new, healthy body” solution would open a can of giant sandworms from hell.People like Will were already worried about body swapping theorically making rich people immortal (“Im old. Gimme your young, supple body and I’ll get your family out of debt”). Not even needing a victim voluntary would make that reality even more probable.
And, of course, no one is thinking about the connotations of what Fitz already does. How is treating the human brain as a hard drive and the conciousness, experiences, ‘soul’ (whatever you want to call it) as mere data to be copied, deleted and pasted into a new storage unit any ‘better’ or more ‘morally right’ than what I suggested. At least if you’re only physically moving the brain you can guarantee that the person’s conciousness will remain intact. With Fitz’s way, there’s always the chance of data corruption, loss of data and that remnants of the ‘previous tenant’ remain. As for Fitz himself, there is no evidence that he has pursued any other ideas other than his copy/paste methods. It’s not ‘possible’ because he hasn’t thought to try and make it possible.
I think there’s a minor catch to the whole body transplant – you see, the brain is DRENCHED in blood. Can’t really wash it with Windex and expect it to sparkle. Any blood disease is guaranteed to stay, so unless you are transferring the brain in a cyborg…
Crap, did I say that aloud?
Well… F. Just F. Not in the grade sense, in the first letter of a four letter word sense. I’m no longer sure there will be an answer, partly because you can effectively do what you want… And I love that. I love not knowing that someone will survive, as opposed to the standard for, say, Doctor Who, which is not knowing how they survive.
So Rikk and Rumy are “mind-switch impaired”, huh? Fair enough.
I really can’t congratulate you guys enough (both Mr. Campbell and Mr. Waltrip) for how you portrayed Rikk here. I can see Rikk wanting to live (is he even out of his 20’s yet?), but at the same time, I see how he can really be at peace with the idea of not being able to stave off death this time. Great job, I mean it.
That being said, I think that Animal’s blood thing is definitely worth a shot. Failing that, I would be very disappointed if Rikk’s friends don’t at least consider using the 23-sider as a desperate last shot.
See, Fritz, this is what irresponsible mad-science-ing results in. You accidentally cause the Jesus-analogue’s life to be impossible to save. You’re a good guy/dragon, and I’m sure you learned from your mistakes, but you have to be more careful.
Welp, time for the team to abduct Animal, drain him of all his blood, and become guilty of kidnapping, terrorism, and who-knows-what else, thus playing into the new villains’ plans. I hate it when new villains are instantly this successful. 😛
Tsk.. It’s not kidnapping. It’s Extraordinary rendition. Plus terrorizing terrorists/vigilantes is perfectly legal as well. 😛
Dang. Rikk being …, *mortal* is …, I don’t know. Sobering. Like a friend of mine says “SOBER” stands for: Son Of a B1tch! Everything is Real! I know this sounds weird, but a fictional character is going into my prayers.
Rick’s morality has always been a strong point for me. Seeing him looking at his on mortality is very inspiring in a way.
Time for Rumy to go hunt down that Irish Death God she never had to beg for Alisin’s life.
I still vote they cryogenically freeze him with instructions to thaw him when a cure is found and a device that can time travel back to the present.
He broke their brains!
Literally!
So? What’s the big deal? Create a body, and physically transfer Rikk’s brain into the new body. So long as his brain doesn’t carry the disease, or the new body is inorganic, the only real problem should be the reattachment of nerves and possibly rejection from an organic body. Honestly, I’m disappointed that a so-called ‘mad’ scientist didn’t think to use Frankensteins methods.
Just ‘cuz this is science-fiction doesn’t mean every theoretical procedure or technology is suddenly fair game. I don’t think whole-body transplant is out just because Fitz never thought to use it. It’s probably just not possible.
‘Sides, cloning new life just to harvest it for parts is all kinds of wrong.
Well, is it really alive if it doesn’t have its own brain? Cause Artificer said it was nonorganic anyway. It could basically be a homunculus – an artificial human body, just to hold Rikk’s brain.
Still, I agree. They haven’t tried it because not everything is possible yet. Buuut there are still plenty of ways to get rid of the Syndrome. What I haven’t figured out is, why don’t they know just what it is yet? They’ve isolated it well enough to test for it, and yet they’re still claiming to not know just what it is, aside from “some kind of disease that produces these symptoms?
The “create a new, healthy body” solution would open a can of giant sandworms from hell.People like Will were already worried about body swapping theorically making rich people immortal (“Im old. Gimme your young, supple body and I’ll get your family out of debt”). Not even needing a
victimvoluntary would make that reality even more probable.And, of course, no one is thinking about the connotations of what Fitz already does. How is treating the human brain as a hard drive and the conciousness, experiences, ‘soul’ (whatever you want to call it) as mere data to be copied, deleted and pasted into a new storage unit any ‘better’ or more ‘morally right’ than what I suggested. At least if you’re only physically moving the brain you can guarantee that the person’s conciousness will remain intact. With Fitz’s way, there’s always the chance of data corruption, loss of data and that remnants of the ‘previous tenant’ remain. As for Fitz himself, there is no evidence that he has pursued any other ideas other than his copy/paste methods. It’s not ‘possible’ because he hasn’t thought to try and make it possible.
I think there’s a minor catch to the whole body transplant – you see, the brain is DRENCHED in blood. Can’t really wash it with Windex and expect it to sparkle. Any blood disease is guaranteed to stay, so unless you are transferring the brain in a cyborg…
Crap, did I say that aloud?