i didn't even know this was possible actually. idk anything about it, my first thought was it seems dangerous but damn, kinda impressive though.

    • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      “99% of patients worldwide are operated on with external fixators, but I developed 33 years ago the only fully weight-bearing nail in the world at that time,”

      Horrifying sentence.

    • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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      3 years ago

      "In the future, it’s probably going to be totally normal for people to get body modifications like cybernetic implants and stuff. At that time, getting longer legs is going to seem like a pretty mundane thing to do."

      It is easier to imagine a world in which we completely subvert our anatomy than to imagine a world in which we accept and value our own and each other's differences.