Nerves grow back too. My brother severed the tip of his little finger and it was stitched back on. No feeling for a long time, but the nerves grew back eventually. That's probably cheaper than the Cut Away Spray, but not as instant. Mind you; lack of feeling in the little finger might be useful if you were doing karate chops. No need to worry if the brick you were hitting was a bit too hard. Then again - No Pain: No Gain (?)
Marcus On 4 Jan 2013, at 22:06, Gene Heskett wrote: On Friday 04 January 2013 16:45:54 dave did opine: Message additions Copyright Friday 04 January 2013 by Gene Heskett > On Fri, 2013-01-04 at 10:43 -0800, Rafael Skodlar wrote: >> On 01/04/2013 08:59 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: >>> Gentle persons: >>> >>> Too bad this was an April Fool's joke (I know, me it took a while to >>> notice it, but I've been kind of busy). I could really use a case of >>> "Cut Away!", not to mention their "MetalDhruker". >>> >>> http://www.onlinemetals.com/cutaway.cfm >>> >>> Regards, >>> Kent >> >> If it's good for metal rods it should be good for fingers too. Ordered >> it right away. > > Oh! That just too funny. April Fool's ... New Year ... what the heck. > Still good for a laugh. > > All kidding aside there are cases of human regeneration of fingers but > the age limit is something like 6-7 years old. > > D I'd like to point out that there is one other area where humans can regenerate, fairly effectively in my case up to nearly 40 years old. Teeth. The percentage in the population as a whole who have this trait is about 2/100,000 and I was one of them. I drank my coffee with cream & sugar up until my mid 40's when I bit into a big mac and broke part of a tooth away. That was my wakeup call that I needed to start taking care of my teeth. When I was in my 20's, a curious dentist in Iowa City noted that it appeared that my cavities appeared to be rising on the side of the tooth in between semi-annual cleanings and offered to take a set of xrays every 6 months as part of a research project for a paper he was writing on the subject. A year later we had 3 sets of pix that confirmed my teeth were wearing away on top as expected but were growing from the bottom so that any cavities were actually carried to the top of the tooth before they could get deep enough to be a problem. When I was about 21 I got into a scrap one night and caught a wrench in the mouth that cleaned the 2 upper front teeth off level with the gum line. By the time I turned 23, they were almost back to normal height. And at 78YO, I still have them. Missing some molars though. FWIW, I did return the favor putting the wrench swinger in the shop for a long week. Since he had a wife & two kids and wasn't drawing a check, I took his wife half my check so she could buy groceries two weeks in a row. His stupidity when full of 7 & 7 wasn't their fault according to my reasoning. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! My views <http://www.armchairpatriot.com/What%20Has%20America%20Become.shtml> I worked in a health food store once. A guy came in and asked me, "If I melt dry ice, can I take a bath without getting wet?" -- Steven Wright I was taught to respect my elders, but its getting harder and harder to find any... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master HTML5, CSS3, ASP.NET, MVC, AJAX, Knockout.js, Web API and much more. Get web development skills now with LearnDevNow - 350+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122812 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122912 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
