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He would have died after getting that heart transplant...

posted 8 years ago by wordsatplaytoday
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It's a sci-fi movie so he lives.
However in real life, he would die.
In real life transplant patients have to take tons and tons of drugs for their body to adapt to the new part from another.
Plus he is outside where he is exposed to gawd knows what toxins and other airborne illnesses are floating around out there. I doubt that there are any air filters around.
There are just too many factors that would kill him.

Damn, I'm good.

[–] thebostonsquigg 8 years ago

Yeah, you are! Good one Chip.

[–] greg-233 8 years ago

"There are just too many factors that would kill him."

I think we can cut Terminator Salvation some slack with the heart transplant.

After all, the Terminator movies are set in a universe where 1995 + 3 = 1997, the laws of physics are nonsense, and the human body has 215 bones.

John Connor surviving an outdoor heart transplant? Why Not? 

[–] Asteri-Atypical 8 years ago

I think we can cut Terminator Salvation some slack with the heart transplant.

I disagree. Although it was only ONE of the stupid moments of the film.

We're not talking about "Star Trek" level technology, here. While it's a bit more advanced than actual present day, having a heart transplant take place in a makeshift M*A*S*H-like setting, is laughably bad. I can forgive the need for drugs, to a degree, since MAYBE there were a few pharms available, at the time, which might have provided an answer. But heart transplants aren't like taking out an appendix.

The whole "human heart" theme was cringeworthy, anyway. Somehow this heart is the one element exposed and vulnerable, without being armored? And after being punched by a T-800, all that is needed to completely fix it is a jolt from a handy hi-power cable? Please.

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[–] THX1138b (9) 6 years ago

Maybe the heart was armoured. You can put a human heart into fibrilation with a suitable impact to the chest; maybe this movie featured the equivalent and the heart was made to fibrilate rather than physically destroyed through the armour.

The problem I have is that you can just transplant tissue from any person to any other person; they're supposed to be matched to minimise the chance of rejection by the immune system of the host. When the cyborg offers his heart, no-one seems to point out that they should probably check for the remote chance that they're even MHC compatible.