Demolisher Posted July 2, 2002 Share Posted July 2, 2002 Ok, forget the future, forget the original trilogy, anakin becomes darth vader, etc, etc; say all we have is episodes 1 and 2. Why doesnt Anakin get his arm, which is probably lying on the floor 5 feet away from him, reattached instead of getting a robotic arm? If you think about it, it doesn't really make sense since this galaxy introduced to us in episode 1 and now 2 seems so technologically advanced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcceptableRisk Posted July 2, 2002 Share Posted July 2, 2002 Because a light saber expands when it hits any surface, creating imense heat and destroying everything it touches...Anakin's arm probably had about two inches if not more of unusable flesh. Even if they were able to rejoin the two, he'd look like Igor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ET Warrior Posted July 2, 2002 Share Posted July 2, 2002 And the saber burns through the flesh, cauterizing the wound, so it probably burned through his nerve endings, rendering the arm incapable of being used if reattached. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle d'Tana Posted July 4, 2002 Share Posted July 4, 2002 Ok, i think te medicine wasn't able to reattach his arm... In lukes case it is able. ad when luke cuts vaders arm in epVI he has an proteose like luke.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natwa whitta Posted July 5, 2002 Share Posted July 5, 2002 Originally posted by Kyle d'Tana Ok, i think te medicine wasn't able to reattach his arm... In lukes case it is able. ad when luke cuts vaders arm in epVI he has an proteose like luke.... dude, how old are you? in ESB, his hand IS robotic! jeez!!!! they did the same to anakin as they did to luke.....and, is your keyboard missing keys, or what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zindell Posted July 6, 2002 Share Posted July 6, 2002 Yeah Luke gets a completly robotic hand, they don't re-atttach his old one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kryllith Posted July 7, 2002 Share Posted July 7, 2002 Fact is, they'd probably have an easier time attaching Anakin's arm than Luke's hand. At least they could find Anakin's arm. Kryllith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwing Posted July 7, 2002 Share Posted July 7, 2002 Originally posted by AcceptableRisk Because a light saber expands when it hits any surface, creating imense heat and destroying everything it touches...Anakin's arm probably had about two inches if not more of unusable flesh. Even if they were able to rejoin the two, he'd look like Igor. Where did you get that info? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[RAA]-=Chi3f=- Posted July 7, 2002 Share Posted July 7, 2002 LOL, That's what I'd like to know. Obviously, in a galaxy far far away, nobody can re-attach burnt flesh properly. I guess prosthestics run in the Skywalker family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormtroop Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 Anakin could probby not be bothered to get his arm sowed back on instead a robotic arm seems more sithe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FunkyFergy Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 Maybe for a droid building a robotic arm means they get paid more or even they get a higher voltage. Well i don't know just, whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[RAA]-=Chi3f=- Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 I don't think there was a choice. Has anyone ever had a limb re-attached in SW? They seem to know a lot about Bio-mechanics, but putting his arm back arm doesn't seem possible, does it? I think, too, that the arm serves a major purpose in the series. Remember when Luke saw Vader's robotic hand in ROTJ? That's what stopped him from killing his father and turning to the Dark side - Lightning whor3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurgan Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 I know, this is EU, but in Splinter of the Mind's Eye, a guy gets his arm cut off, IIRC with Luke's lightsaber (the same one he uses in ANH) and gets it surgically reattached and it's fine! The only reason Luke's hand gets replaced by a bionic implant instead of his original hand, we assume, is because his hand FELL DOWN THAT HUGE SHAFT and couldn't be recovered (until the Zahn trilogy of course, heh). So are we to assume that the technology of this galaxy who has traveled the stars for millennia is behind 20th (not even 21st) century medicine that was able to reattach people's limbs that were torn off? I guess we're to assume that in ANH, they were so concerned with getting out of there that Obi-Wan forgot to grab his arm (it couldn't have been that far from where it was cut off, since we see how far he gets pushed across the room by Dooku). Maybe another reason Anakin is pissed at him... Update: Then again, why can't they clone a limb and attach it to his arm or something like that? Too expensive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaster21801 Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 well, I believe there are two things that are true... First, the nerves and blood vessels would have been singed and cauterized. This renders passage of blood and nerve impulses to the old body part useless. The arm would die eventually anyway. Second, if they were to reattach Anakin's arm, his brain would be subjected too immense trauma and might possibly lose the ability to move certain fingers or he might not even regain the use of his whole arm. Because of these reasons, droid prosthesis seems to be the best answer in this type of scenario. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgentSmith Posted July 8, 2002 Share Posted July 8, 2002 Though I agree with your assessment Jaster21801. For 'war-time' (well the Clone wars have begun) and the trauma of the specific wound it is easier to equipp Anakin with a prosthetic lower arm. But as Kurgan said, and something that's still mind boggling to me (especially considering in the AOTC era full body/specimen cloning was already so advanced) is why they don't have the capacity or if they do have the capacity and knowledge why they never equipp or operate on people and give them real live tissue replacements grown from their own DNA. Our current medecine is capable of growing a human ear on a mouse! And in the AOTC era they can clone full subjects and make them mature faster, adapt their DNA and such. Surely one would expect that if the can expertly clone entire people/specimens they could grow a new limb from a persons DNA and surgically attach it. (Considering they have the technology to surgically attach and intergrate mechanical limbs.) I thought this might be due to the fact the clone still take years to develop and it would be too long and costly to grown someone a new limb for years, but it takes only a few months to grow a limb on a clone (when they are foetuses still) and besides in the EU (Thrawn trilogy) they grown mature clones in a matter of days. So ... still a bit odd no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaster21801 Posted July 9, 2002 Share Posted July 9, 2002 I'm not sure of this myself, so I'll ask. Can the grown ear (on the rat) function as an ear or is there a neural disruption? Though I'm not too up to date on the news of medical advances, I haven't heard of nerves and senses flowing through the newly acquired limb... But then, how do lizards do it? Please correct me if I'm wrong if someone knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgentSmith Posted July 10, 2002 Share Posted July 10, 2002 If I remember correctly this ear was the full outer body part with the skin, cartelidge, blood vessels, glands and neveres of a regular human ear. This is one of the first webpages I ran accross that features the human ear ona mouse story. http://tlc.discovery.com/convergence/superhuman/photo/zoom_03.html I quote : 'Researchers in Boston have engineered a mouse with a human ear growing on its back. The purpose is to create a supply of ears for people who lose their ears in accidents or who are born earless. How do they do it? Basically they mold an ear shape out of a biodegradable plastic, sprinkle human cartilage cells on the mold, and then implant the whole thing on the back of a mouse which has been engineered to not reject the foreign tissue. While the ear grows, the mouse looks a little strange but it doesn't hear any better. The really nice thing is that they can then remove the ear without killing the mouse.' This was around 1995 I believe ... now it's 2002, so advances are certain to have occurred since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaster21801 Posted July 10, 2002 Share Posted July 10, 2002 That's the thing though. We don't know if it would be a functioning part. Like the ear thing, the rat/mouse didn't use it to hear. The other problem (as the article stated) is that the artificial arm may be rejected by Anakin's body. I wonder if they've figured it out yet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hannibal Posted July 10, 2002 Share Posted July 10, 2002 His arm was cut off at the elbow. Not only would they have to reattach it but they'd have to rebuild the whole elbow. I'm sure even a that time of the SW universe there were limitations in technology. Especially having to do with the human body. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Kaan Posted July 11, 2002 Share Posted July 11, 2002 Nope, your all wrong. It was not re-attached because it was not in the script. Kaan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ET Warrior Posted July 11, 2002 Share Posted July 11, 2002 Not to mention walking over and picking up your severed arm is really pretty gross.............whoever had to pick it up just might end up losing something themselves.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwing Posted July 11, 2002 Share Posted July 11, 2002 C'mon guys, think outside the box. Maybe: Anakin's arm was smashed by rubble in the Anakin vs. Yoda fight. Anakin's arm was damaged by radiation from any of the ships in the hangar or broken machinery. Anakin didn't want his arm reattached. A Geonosian drone thought it looked interesting or something and ran off with it. Anakin would have lost his ability to wield a lightsaber effectively because of the nerve damage to his lost arm, and thus opted for a robotic arm. The possibilites go on and on... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotionMan Posted July 12, 2002 Share Posted July 12, 2002 A local animal could have run off with it, knawing on it:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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