Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 26, 2016
November 25, 2016
November 27, 2016
Transcript:
A 2700 square foot office building in Dubai was built in just 17 days using a 3-D printer. Pick your brain! In the 1950s, surgeon Walter Freeman would travel the United States offering ice pick lobotomies to patients in a van later dubbed the Lobotomobile. Love train! Hector Irakliotis and Tatyana Sandler got married on the New York City subway saying I do on the N train as it crossed from Brooklyn into Manhattan!
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Templo S.U.D. about 8 years ago
Oh, the wonders of three-dimensional printing never cease.
linsonl about 8 years ago
I think Walter Freeman might could have used his own services.
fuzzbucket Premium Member about 8 years ago
Using how many 3-d printers? I’ve heard they are very slow.
tom_wright about 8 years ago
What a fantastic news item, Hector and Tatyana. Wonder why CNN & FNC didn’t cover that?
tahoeh2o about 8 years ago
“I would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”…
comixbomix about 8 years ago
He wasn’t actually a surgeon – he was a retired mob hitman…just tryin’ to keep busy!
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 8 years ago
Dr. Walter Freeman gave lobotomies for free with an ice pick out of a van in the 1950’s? Who could make this up? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy The icecream was a reward. With the introduction of anti-psychotic drugs such therapeutic lobotomies went down to zero.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 8 years ago
From Wikipedia: The Freeman-Watts prefrontal lobotomy still required drilling holes in the scalp, so surgery had to be performed in an operating room by trained neurosurgeons. Walter Freeman believed this surgery would be unavailable to those he saw as needing it most: patients in state mental hospitals that had no operating rooms, surgeons, or anesthesia and limited budgets. Freeman wanted to simplify the procedure so that it could be carried out by psychiatrists in psychiatric hospitals.128
wjones about 8 years ago
Built the office building or just put it together from prebuilt modules?