Today I watched a bunch of procedures in an cath lab. They look like this:
That crescent-shaped device is a fluoroscope, which sends an x-ray video to monitors. A doctor performs anything from easy biopsies to complex cardiovascular surgeries by watching what he's doing on the monitors while the patient is actively imaged. They can fix a stent in your carotid while you are still awake on the fucking table-- the entire procedure is done with catheters, wires, and extremely small tools inserted through a needle that is, at its largest, maybe 1.5mm in diameter.
I will simplify that to point out how amazing this is: people stand in a room and blast someone with potentially-deadly, but carefully dosed as to be benign radiation, so that they can fix a person's heart and arteries through a hole smaller than the tip of your pen, while the person is still awake and talking to the doctor. Also, the UK does this for free.
Today I watched a bunch of procedures in an cath lab. They look like this:
That crescent-shaped device is a fluoroscope, which sends an x-ray video to monitors. A doctor performs anything from easy biopsies to complex cardiovascular surgeries by watching what he's doing on the monitors while the patient is actively imaged. They can fix a stent in your carotid while you are still awake on the fucking table-- the entire procedure is done with catheters, wires, and extremely small tools inserted through a needle that is, at its largest, maybe 1.5mm in diameter.
I will simplify that to point out how amazing this is: people stand in a room and blast someone with potentially-deadly, but carefully dosed as to be benign radiation, so that they can fix a person's heart and arteries through a hole smaller than the tip of your pen, while the person is still awake and talking to the doctor. Also, the UK does this for free.
Well fucking done, humanity.
I love how we actually live in the future. Like, we're experiences something beyond 20th century science fiction's wildest dreams every day. It's just so cool.
Meh. Ellen Ripley's crew ignored her Quarantine order, she ends up in suspended animation for 50 years, everyone she knew is dead, then she went back with a crew of marines, who were, as with her first crew, wiped out by the deadliest creatures in the Galaxy. So she commits Xenocide, followed by getting into a brawl with the Queen of said Deadliest creatures, and punts the bitch out an airlock.
Meh. Ellen Ripley's crew ignored her Quarantine order, she ends up in suspended animation for 50 years, everyone she knew is dead, then she went back with a crew of marines, who were, as with her first crew, wiped out by the deadliest creatures in the Galaxy. So she commits Xenocide, followed by getting into a brawl with the Queen of said Deadliest creatures, and punts the bitch out an airlock.
To all 3DS Ambassadors! GBA games are ready for you to download, nice selection too.
F-Zero: Maximum Velocity Super Mario Advance 3: Yoshi’s Island Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones Kirby & The Amazing Mirror Mario Kart: Super Circuit Mario vs. Donkey Kong Metroid Fusion Wario Land 4 WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames
To all 3DS Ambassadors! GBA games are ready for you to download, nice selection too.
F-Zero: Maximum Velocity Super Mario Advance 3: Yoshi’s Island Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones Kirby & The Amazing Mirror Mario Kart: Super Circuit Mario vs. Donkey Kong Metroid Fusion Wario Land 4 WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames
No Golden Sun. Still no reason for me to get a 3DS
Can't tell if genuinely hilarious sex-positive profeminist humour, a sex-negative mocking sex-positive politics, or extremely mean anti-feminist parody.
We have Dragon's Breath in Paradox; the Peacekeepers in Vietnam use them to give them more kick over the stuff they use by default, so they are more scary to the VC player when they show up as reinforcements. It just switches their shotguns over to flame damage, but it looks really, really cool, especially at night.
I would normally put this in the hockey thread, but this Photograph is too cool to not show it to a wider audience. This is Philadelphia Flyers rookie forward Harry Zolnierczyk (a very valuable name in Scrabble) in the process of scoring his 2nd goal of the season:
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That crescent-shaped device is a fluoroscope, which sends an x-ray video to monitors. A doctor performs anything from easy biopsies to complex cardiovascular surgeries by watching what he's doing on the monitors while the patient is actively imaged. They can fix a stent in your carotid while you are still awake on the fucking table-- the entire procedure is done with catheters, wires, and extremely small tools inserted through a needle that is, at its largest, maybe 1.5mm in diameter.
I will simplify that to point out how amazing this is: people stand in a room and blast someone with potentially-deadly, but carefully dosed as to be benign radiation, so that they can fix a person's heart and arteries through a hole smaller than the tip of your pen, while the person is still awake and talking to the doctor. Also, the UK does this for free.
Well fucking done, humanity.
Now he just needs a Hojo.
F-Zero: Maximum Velocity
Super Mario Advance 3: Yoshi’s Island
Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
Kirby & The Amazing Mirror
Mario Kart: Super Circuit
Mario vs. Donkey Kong
Metroid Fusion
Wario Land 4
WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames
"The first obvious problem of evolution is that you're calling Jesus a liar." I don't see how that's a problem....
Which was responded by this from another one of my friends:
I don't pay Jesus for opinions- I pay him to mow my lawn.