Finch Brothers Survive Horrific Car Crash

Two brothers from Enniskerry, Country Wicklow on a road trip of a lifetime to Kerry, were stopped in their heels as their car toppled over from an icy patch on the bend of a small road. Cathal, the older of two brothers, had just started driving, when the atrocity struck. He spoke after the crash saying to our very own editor the Owl "I was going slow enough so I was pretty lucky in all - not sure about the car though." Somehow all he sustained were scratches, while his brother on Facebook a few hours after the tragedy posted "More importantly he got blood on my jacket !!!" He had not lost his humour,it is rumoured this will not stop them from getting to Kerry life or death.

Here is a piece Cathal wrote for us about his experience in the crash:

Without thinking, I started to climb from my car, then sat quietly behind the steering wheel. Niall turned and glanced at the bonnet of my car, clearly not recognizing the vehicle had nearly massacred us. As he raised his head he saw me through the empty windshield, sitting behind the deformed steering wheel among the dried bloodstains of his jacket. His strong eyes barely changed their focus, but one hand rose involuntarily to his cheek. He took in the damage to my car, his attention moving from the impacted radiator grille to the high-rising steering wheel in my hands. He moved away from the overturned car. What struck me again was his unusual leg-stance, the inner surface of his thighs, set in a broad pelvis, turned outwards as if exposed to the line of crashed vehicles- pity, eroticism, even a strange jealousy of his innocence. He came back as I waited on the oil-stained asphalt in front of my car. He pointed to the damaged vehicles. ‘After this sort of thing, how do people manage to look at a car, let alone drive one?’
When I made no reply he said flady, ‘Bummer man’

Indycar Crash That KIlled Driver

A crash involving 15 cars at Las Vegas Motor Speedway killed Dan Wheldon. IndyCar is struggling to keep alive and in comparison to formula 1 is a mouse of a sport. Far from a household name Dan Wheldon although very talented, was offered 5 million dollars for this race to glamour up its falling number of attendees, for Europeans spectators the closest experience is Senna's death in May 1, 1994.

Monkey Head Transplant

In 1979 a surgeon called Robert White attempted to transplant the head of one monkey on to the body of another. Watch the video below and have a think about this procedure. If such pioneering surgery could be effectively carried out on humans, someone perhaps in a car crash, who experiences severe trauma to their entire body save for their head, could have their head transplanted onto a donor body. What would be even more strange is that coupled with cloning, everyone could grow clones of themselves and then when the clone reaches the desired age lets say 25 your head could be transplanted onto the clones body, this cycle could be repeated every ten years. Of course there are neurodegenerative and central nervous system issues that are not being addressed here but essentially you could remain in a youthful body for a lot longer than the current developmental time frame dictates (let's ignore the paralysis for the moment). Even though your face may age, coupling this surgery with face transplants from the more youthful clone, then this issue can also be addressed to some extent. 

It's not the fountain of youth, but those pioneering monkey transplant surgeries may have been taking us closer to some sort of increased longevity. The question is should we thaw out Robert White along with his ideas or do we let ethics get the better of us? You decide.