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Medical Science?

posted 18 years ago by chunkylover66
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Is it me, or are there glaring signs that they did not know much about medical science back then? Attempting to "clone" real people by making biological copies (at the same age they are), using computers to synthesize body chemicals and DNA (by the way, does anyone know if the chemicals on the computer screens actually exist?), testing and copying people at night in a very creepy but utterly obvious fashion, etc. Wouldn't it just be easier for them to give people plastic surgery, similar to the James Bond movies Thunderball and Diamonds are Forever? If anyone has an opinion on this matter, please respond.

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[–] imdb-6182 18 years ago

Wow that's a weird critique. And probably one that we can make about current movies 30 years from now.

No, they hadn't cloned anything but plants back in 1976 - but cloning was a major topic of 1970s science fiction, usually involving duplicating adults. Not sure why it bothers you that they did biochemical synthesis using computers though - we do that now, as well as artificially assembling DNA.

Plastic surgery might have fooled people in the world of Thunderball, but would we be fooled by replacing the President with someone who had received plastic surgery today? Would their fingerprints be the same? How about their retina scans? Hair, tissue samples?

If there's anything to pick apart about this movie, I'm not sure the technology is it: That open MRI machine really got me, watching it recently. That didn't exist ten years ago, let alone 30.