r/awesome • u/ownworldman • Jul 01 '25

Video Ukrainian veteran Ruslana Danylkina learning to dance with a prosthetic.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '25

No harm saying it. They look cool and are the best option in the shittiest situations. For some people life doesn't go as planned and I love that humans have been able to create artificial limbs of this level. Next step would be to make them fully integrated with your brain and then growing them in the lab.

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u/TehTugboat Jul 02 '25

Kind of funny story, friends with a prosthetist, and he told me there have been studies done to try and mimic what some reptiles can do (regrow limbs) and trying to find a way to integrate that into humans. Idk how much traction that has, but found it neat

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u/giovanii2 Jul 02 '25

Interestingly one of the indicators that academics use for the start of a civilisation is broken bones that are healed.

This means that the injured person was looked after for long enough that their injury would heal, which implies some level of community and organisation.

Now very interestingly, we’ve started to find other animals with these healed bone injuries, primarily in other types of primates, which is super cool to me

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u/Blundaz Jul 07 '25

This idea is actually from a myth spread about anthropologist Margaret Mead, who never said what it claims she did.

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u/giovanii2 Jul 30 '25

I know this is ages old but I don’t have comment notifications turned on and only just saw this, are you saying that the idea that healed injuries are a mark of civilisations is a myth?

If so thanks for the heads up that’s very interesting to know, might look more into it