Five years ago Johann Hari of the Guardian wrote a news article dated March 11, 2002 about the bizarre world of radical plastic surgery. His article quotes, " It's the stuff of science fantasy, but a respected American surgeon says that, within five years, he will be able to graft wings and tails on to human beings."
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The TV sketch show Smack the Pony recently featured a hilarious scene in which a woman turned up at a plastic surgeon's clinic bearing a picture of a wolf. "I want to look like this, please," she explained, and people chuckled in living rooms across Britain. Across the Atlantic, however, there is a respected plastic surgeon who really is working on plastic-surgery techniques which could make us resemble animals in ways we can't even imagine today.
Dr Joe Rosen is not a quack. He works at the acclaimed Dartmouth Medical Centre, and has been a scientific advisor to Nasa. He is fond of making statements such as: "Human wings will be here. Mark my words." He believes in all seriousness that within five years he will be able to graft wings on to a human being's body. This is possible because our brains adapt to create neural maps for new body parts. When we have a limb amputated, our neural map of that limb gradually fades away; and if we gain a body part, our neural map expands accordingly.
"If I were to give you wings, you would develop, literally, a winged brain. Our bodies change our brains, and our brains are infinitely mouldable," Rosen has said.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4371759,00.html
NOW IN THE YEAR OF 2007, ARE THERE HUMANS WITH ANGEL WINGS AMONGST US???
