From:	Mark L. Neidengard mneideng@****.caltech.edu
Subject:	ahh well....was worth a try
Date:	Wed, 8 Mar 2000 12:36:36 -0800 (PST)

According to Michael Dolmer:
>Nope…..the premise is the dead body goes into the machine, and the *machine*
>reanimates it...one shot. boom. done. No cyberware implants involved,
>hence no major costs involved.

In other words, you're conceiving this machine as a "defibrilator" for the
brain. I suppose I can _sort_of_ see this idea...the limiting factor would
probably be time from "fatality" to insertion. As soon as the neurons start
dying and losing their connectedness no attempt to "restart" the brain could
hope to be successful.

The question then becomes, what makes the people any harder to kill than
before? Are their pain centers damaged or destroyed in the process, giving
them the effect of some drug like PCP?
--
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"Fairy of sleep, controller of illusions" Maigo no Daigakuinsei, Cornell U.
"Control the person for my own purpose." "Don't mess with the Dark
Elves!"
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