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On my way to the Historic Senator Theater in Baltimore this afternoon, to buy my tickets to "Revenge of the Sith", I came up with the perfect way to prove that the Empire relies exclusively on non-cloned troops ...
quote:Originally posted by Omega: Hard to believe. I think we can do that now.
We can take a stump that has been cauterised and left to heal over for at least a day (and probably far longer), and then take a hand from a presumably dead doner and stick it on? That's fairly impressive.
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We can...it just wont stay on. (slight problem- we're working on it!)
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I've found duct tape works well. But the smell becomes kind of distracting after a short time. Omega's implication also seems to be that Anakin's and Luke's manicures take place in the future, when of course we all know they took place a long time ago...
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Omega's implication is that although their technology is so far and away beyond ours, there are still things that we can do that they can't ... or that it seems they can't.
The Rebels have limited resources, even assuming that it's possible to attach a living, cloned hand to a cauterized and partially healed arm, there's no way to know that if Luke had gone with Vader, and been treated at an Imperial medical facility, that he wouldn't have had an organic hand reattached. Of course, if they're cloning stuff, they could just clone a whole new arm, and saw his off. It would get around the cauterized stump issue.
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Perhaps their mechanical limbs are good enough that they see little need to go to the effort of cloning a limb and going through the arduous task of attaching nerves, muscles, and blood vessels. We saw that, despite having been attached in a Rebel sickbay, Luke's hand looked real, had the full range of motion, and seemed to have the same sensations as a real hand.
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I think it's more a matter of having a cloned limb available immeadeately, rather than an inablity to perform a sucessful operation.
It's possible they cant clone just a part (particularly something very complex like a hand).
Clones take time to reach a maturity where the limb would match the stump.
Mabye that's whay Jango agreed to have himself duped- lots of spare parts in case he got shot up (though beheading is an insurmountable barrier to replacment, I guess....but that's what Boba was for).
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Besides, wouldn't the bionics be better for a Bounty Hunter?
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More like "Free Lance, Piece-keeping, firing, reloading and firing again Agent".
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quote:Besides, wouldn't the bionics be better for a Bounty Hunter?
Or General 30% Iron Chef? Can you even imagine how spunky he'd be in the kitchen with four Ginsu knifes instead of sabers?
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quote:Originally posted by Mighty Blogger Snay: The Rebels have limited resources, even assuming that it's possible to attach a living, cloned hand to a cauterized and partially healed arm, there's no way to know that if Luke had gone with Vader, and been treated at an Imperial medical facility, that he wouldn't have had an organic hand reattached.
Doesn't explain Annakin's hand though, as presumably he didn't have the problem of limited resources. So it must have been a technological thing, and going from Scary Evil Hand to Luke's Nice & Fluffy Hand in 30-odd years is pretty impressive.
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Mabye Anakin wanted the bling of a gold hand.
Or Amidalia requested some vibrating function.
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Maybe the robotic hand had a special "Bachelor's Attachment".
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