At least 500 years old, the Inca maiden found at the top of the Andes is so well-preserved that visitors find themselves whispering, for fear of waking her.
She has a better complexion than some of the botox queens running around.
(3 votes)
The Inca Maiden Mummy
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(sounds retarded)
Fuckin amazing! Not sure I agree with removing her though, its grave robbing. I like the knowledge we can gain from the artifacts and the mummy but really its grave robbing. She should be put back.
(Old Spike)
I wonder how her brain is. I know we are not there yet but could we eventually copy it into a simulation?
Grave robbing +1.
(sounds retarded)
Yeah I dont think it works that way.
(Old Spike)
Are implying there is a way today - how does it work?
I was more thinking if all the neurons and other connecting brain matter haven't degraded then a re-animation of a copy could be possible in time. Unlike typical brain death and destruction of inner contents.
(sounds retarded)
Our memories are not like a hard drive with 1s and 0s imprinted and forever stored away waiting to be unlocked, it is more of a fluid electrical pulses, going through pathways, at least thats what I gather we understand about the brain. I grant you that we dont know that much about how our brains work at the moment but Im pretty sure her memories and those of others who die are gone forever once the electric pulses stop in the brain, the neurons shrivel and die right away. Thats why people get brain dead in very short times, even though their bodies still function, their memories and brain activity is gone forever. Think of it like a hydroponic system, the plants are the memories and the water keeps them alive, if you shut the water off, the plants die, even if you can still turn the water back on, the plants are dead forever.
(Old Spike)
But what about all those heads we've been freezing to reanimate when technology catches up?
(sounds retarded)
(Long Spike)
I think they got an MRI of the inside of the skull. Wonder how well that was preserved.