Comments on: #420 – Printed (7 Comments)

By: spidercow

spidercow — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 06:18:36 +0000

actually an experimental substance has been developed that may be capable of easily replacing lost tissue. I don’t know a whole lot about It, I just remember seeing it in a documentary once. I think it’s basically this gel-like stuff that’s full of stem cells or whatever.

By: S. Aquila

S. Aquila — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 22:32:34 +0000

You are now my friend.

By: infrapinklizzard

infrapinklizzard — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 16:13:22 +0000

“The fingered suspect was all thumbs.”

By: reynard61

reynard61 — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 03:41:28 +0000

Yeah, I saw that episode too. They simply re-assembled his original prints like a jigsaw puzzle using photos of the Frankenprints.

By: kingklash

kingklash — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:23:31 +0000

That’s one of the reasons you see burglers use sandpaper on their fingertips in cartoons.

Or that one episode of CSI where one guy cut off the skin on his fingertips, cut those up, mixed them up, and re-attached the resulting Frankenprints (as one character called them), so that he couldn’t be traced back to the crimes. Points for creativity, but he still got caught.

By: Voyager

Voyager — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:37:10 +0000

On the bright side, the regrowth of finger-tip may be the key that unlocks human regeneration.

There is quite a bit of research going on on that right now.

By: Morgrim

Morgrim — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 05:30:52 +0000

I know from painful experience that if you burn off your fingerprints then they grow back anyway, so unless you’re committing the crime in a week (to let your fingers heal and scar) and planning not to get called up by the police for about 2 months (so the prints regrow) it wouldn’t work anyway.