Dead Bodies and Nanotechnology

[garyf42]

As this seemed more a science fiction question than anything else, I thought I'd ask it here.<br /><br />What is the possibility, given that the technology could exist, to take a recently dead body (within 12-24 hours), use nanotechnology to kick-start the organs again (or repair them), then download an AI into the brain so that the AI had a body to move around in. Or would the nanotechnology render the organs useless or supercede the dead organs yet still create a viable "vessel" for the AI. One might call it a zombie-bot.<br /><br />Or is this whole idea completely preposterous even in a science fiction setting?<br /><br />Thanks!<br /><br /><br />Gary . . .

 

[lampblack]

well... if it's preposterous, then "Frankenstein" was just plain silly. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font color="#0000ff"><strong>Just tell the truth and let the chips fall...</strong></font> </div>

 

[vogon13]

Within 2 hours of death, intestinal bacteria can be found inside the heart (and other places of course). If revival of any kind were attempted at the 2 hour or later point, the body would already be well down the path towards putrefaction.<br /><br /><img src="/images/icons/tongue.gif" /><br /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#ff0000"><strong>TPTB went to Dallas and all I got was Plucked !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#339966"><strong>So many people, so few recipes !!</strong></font></p><p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Let's clean up this stinkhole !!</strong></font> </p> </div>

 

[cretdob]

Whenever I contemplate science fiction scenarios, I always strive to find a way to justify them. Maybe this goes back to my Superman comic days. The comic authors always tried to explain how Superman did various things, like flying and being bulletproof, etc.<br /><br />I like the thought of making the impossible seem plausible. I love Zombie movies and have always wished there were a way those scenarios could really happen. Not that I want real-life Zombies prowling around and trying to kill me for my fresh warm blood.<br /><br />I like the premise here that nanotechnology could make a Zombie in some way possible. But, yeah, it still seems preposterous. Some say and it seems popular to say nowadays that anything is possible and, therefore, happens - if at all in some parallel universe or other dimension. This being the case, then maybe someone somewhere is really experiencing "the night of the living dead."