DAY 3: Robotic hearts, zebra skin and chlorophyll
Day 3 and there’s no let up in the number of chats and questions – 4,400 students registered and nearly 2,500 answered questions, not to mention loads more chats! Today’s highlights: They were discussing robotic hearts in the Indium Zone: 11sumnerh : could we survive without a heart could it be replaced with a robotic device? christinapagel : yes we could! even now children wiating for a heart transplant can be fitted with artificial hearts that si outside their body (on their laps!!) and pump the blood round… but the longer you use them the more dangerosu it gets christinapagel : and it gets dangerous becaue eventually your blood will clot inside the device and you get a stroke.. matildawyatt1999 : why arent people immortal if you can have a robotic heart? jessbean : as for the robotic heart. that might still work but other bits of your body can … Continue reading