Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 30, 2013
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Transcript:
In April 2013 a woman from Kattappana, India, suffering from a tickly throat, had a live venomous centipede removed from her throat where it had been stuck for a week! Ewww!! In 1994, a British murder conviction was thrown out because members of the jury tried to contact the victim with a Ouija board. Russian billionaire Dimitry Itskov is funding research on the insertion of human minds into everlasting artificial bodies- cyborgs!
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roscoedog55 over 10 years ago
In the 35 years I was married to my x I think our brain cells changed. Both of us feel that we’re not the same person we married.
natureboyfig4 Premium Member over 10 years ago
I think somebody has been watching too much Doctor Who. The Cybermen have been done already.
RobinHood2013 over 10 years ago
It could be worse than that… the cyborgs could rise up and kill us all — like the Terminators!
fogey over 10 years ago
Interesting! IMO, if new neuron cells are not generated after birth, and synapses can’t progress to form new connections after transfer from the living human body, the cyborg is born dead. A great point for argument in a philosophy class, but it’s sort of been done in a 1983 Steve Martin movie.
Stephen Gilberg over 10 years ago
I’ll ask my Ouija Board, “Will cyborgs eradicate centipedes?”
tigerchik32 over 10 years ago
That’s actually a classic philosophy question.
AmyGrantfan51774 over 10 years ago
that was interesting about the Ouija board but I don’t use it I talk to God about my problems no I not a religious freak
AmyGrantfan51774 over 10 years ago
how did the centipede get stuck in the woman’s throat?!!!!!..and how did it stick there for a week?!!!!…weird eh????!!!!!!