Message no. 1

From:	Bai Shen baishen@**********.com
Subject:	Muscle Replacement vs. Muscle Augmentation
Date:	Tue, 18 May 1999 10:53:44 -0400

> >Nope; that's muscle replacement. Go back and read the description for
> >muscle replacement again
>
> Implanted, vat-grown _synthetic_ muscles. So no living tissue...
>
> Calcium treatments etc. etc.: OK, even cyberware can have some "bio" parts.
> But why can't they use these cheap treatments for cyberlimbs, where one of
> the reasons of difficulties is the difference in strength between the
> cyberlimb and the part of the body it is attached to?
>
> >versus the description for muscle augmentation in SHADOWTECH.
>
> Yes, it says it derived from muscle replacement. But that was my whole
> point: if at one place (don't know where, I think somewhere in Shadowtech)
> that they can't reproduce the economical energy-output of real muscles by
> mechanical parts, that augmentation is derived from replacement? Because
> the other statement says that replacement cannot be as strong as real musscles
> (at least, not for such a low price; with much more money, of course).
> I would say that muscle augmentation would preceed replacement. And the
> latter would be more expensive. Why can't they use the latter in cyberlimbs?

Speaking of which, is it jus' me or are the descriptions for Muscle Replacement
and Muscle Augmentation backwards? The bioware version(don't 'member which that
is offhand) has a descrip that sounds like cyber, an' vice versa.

Bai Shen