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Title: Captain Kirk's Kidney Calculus
Post by: ROBERT on 23/01/2006 13:21:23

January 19

"" Star Trek’ Captain’s Kidney Stone Nets $25,000 in Charity Auction

LOS ANGELES (AP) – An online casino has a piece of Capt. Kirk. Actor William Shatner has sold his kidney stone for $25,000, with the money going to a housing charity, it was announced Tuesday. Shatner reached agreement Monday to sell the stone to GoldenPalace.com.

“This takes organ donors to a new height, to a new low, maybe. How much is a piece of me worth?'' he said in a telephone interview.

Shatner, who played Kirk on the original “Star Trek'' TV show and won an Emmy for his role on “Boston Legal,'' passed the stone last fall.  [xx(]

The stone was so big, Shatner said, “you'd want to wear it on your finger.''

“If you subjected it to extreme heat, it might turn out to be a diamond,'' he added.""

http://www.space.com/astronotes/astronotes.html

Title: Re: Captain Kirk's Kidney Calculus
Post by: ROBERT on 25/01/2006 17:45:38

Set Phasers to Lithotripsy. [:)]

(https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi24.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fc23%2FSUEDONIM%2FPhaser_Pistol-01.jpg&hash=3952af163b6b4f1d1c1f608670e2d92f)

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/007113.htm#visualContent

Title: Re: Captain Kirk's Kidney Calculus
Post by: neilep on 27/01/2006 05:23:28

It's a kidney stone Jim, but not as we know it !

Men are the same as women.... just inside out !!

Title: Re: Captain Kirk's Kidney Calculus
Post by: ROBERT on 27/01/2006 10:33:55

I bet he didn’t half cling on to something when he passed that stone.

Title: Re: Captain Kirk's Kidney Calculus
Post by: neilep on 27/01/2006 16:53:58

ROBERT !!!!!...aaarrgghh !!!...lol ......

I bet he wish he could have just transported the thing out of him...it would have been an enterprising way of dealing with it.


Men are the same as women.... just inside out !!

Title: Re: Captain Kirk's Kidney Calculus
Post by: ROBERT on 30/01/2006 12:34:42

SPOCK: "thats illogical Captain".
KIRK  : "No Spock, its urological"

Title: Re: Captain Kirk's Kidney Calculus
Post by: ROBERT on 31/01/2006 16:54:25

A large kidney stone would have shot out like a photon torpeedo. [:)]

Title: Re: Captain Kirk's Kidney Calculus
Post by: neilep on 31/01/2006 17:30:31

A large kidney stone would have warped his urinary tract !!

Men are the same as women.... just inside out !!

Title: Re: Captain Kirk's Kidney Calculus
Post by: Andrew K Fletcher on 31/01/2006 20:07:09

I believe the stone was from the glomerulur system originally, first observed in venous return as it passed on its way through the loop of Henley in a slingshot motion so to speak.

"The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct."
K.I.S. "Keep it simple!"

Title: Re: Captain Kirk's Kidney Calculus
Post by: ROBERT on 01/02/2006 14:30:44

Aren't the Glomeruli allies of the Ferenghi ?. [:)]

Title: Re: Captain Kirk's Kidney Calculus
Post by: ROBERT on 01/02/2006 15:30:46

Most kidney stones are made of Calcium Crystals,

but surely Captain Kirk's must be made of Dilithium Crystals.   [:)]

http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/Camelot/Engines/Dilithium.html

Title: Re: Captain Kirk's Kidney Calculus
Post by: neilep on 01/02/2006 21:49:29

...I bet kirk thought he was in tribble when he realised he had a dilithium crystal kidney stone  ![:)]

Men are the same as women.... just inside out !!

Title: Re: Captain Kirk's Kidney Calculus
Post by: ROBERT on 02/02/2006 16:38:44

When his Doctor saw the pyelogram he said "you're in big trouble".  [:)]

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/imagepages/19245.htm

Title: Re: Captain Kirk's Kidney Calculus
Post by: ROBERT on 02/02/2006 17:05:29

Engineer SCOTTY, (generic Scottish accent required):-

"ah kidney change the laws of physics Captain".


(only "sharkeyandgeorge" will appreciate that one). [:)]