Rise of the Machines

or; CYBORGS TO COMPETE WITH HUMANS IN THE OLYMPICS!!, as The Sun might choose to headline it.

Over on Engadget I recently found that Oscar Pistorius is free to have a shot at Olympic qualification, despite being a double amputee with springs instead of feet.


_{The fact that the prosthetics are called 'Cheetahs' (note the double entendre) didn't tip the judges off}

Surely it's not long now before prosthetics improves enough that able bodied athletes will volunteer for the surgery to boost their times and get a Gold medal, before forming SkyNet Industries and achieving world domination.

Interestingly, I found this through the adverts feed at the top of my Google Mail inbox, which was presumably trying to find something to relate to my latest email about Jaco Pastorius. Gotta love random luck.