This is what I mean by they've thought about it too much! They actually went to a surgeon and got him to figure out how it might be possible for people to survive that way! He sat there and actually pondered on the possibility before coming up with a method! This is a horror movie, I'm okay with a whole lot of handwavey science when it comes to these things, like flesh-eating plants that can mimic humans, mutatey parasites, and how someone can still be conscious after sawing off their own foot.
RE: organ transplants are a different thing because it's internal and you have to deal with the body's immune response kicking in to reject the foreign tissues.
What you have to remember is that basically, the human body is a giant tube, so the theory behind the 'pede is that you're just joining the outside pieces together, so technically, the immune response would be kept to a minimum. They're not sharing blood, they're not sharing organs, the only thing they share is a digestive tract.
But then my brain backpedals and flails wildly because surely there'd be a massive risk of infection given the joining process -- from what I remember and I am not going to go and double check -- involves removal of teeth, and well, the digestive tract. This is how I'm rationalising out the end section's subsequent sepsis and death.
...this probably isn't making any of this better. I should shut up now.
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on 2010-07-19 04:22 pm (UTC)RE: organ transplants are a different thing because it's internal and you have to deal with the body's immune response kicking in to reject the foreign tissues.
What you have to remember is that basically, the human body is a giant tube, so the theory behind the 'pede is that you're just joining the outside pieces together, so technically, the immune response would be kept to a minimum. They're not sharing blood, they're not sharing organs, the only thing they share is a digestive tract.
But then my brain backpedals and flails wildly because surely there'd be a massive risk of infection given the joining process -- from what I remember and I am not going to go and double check -- involves removal of teeth, and well, the digestive tract. This is how I'm rationalising out the end section's subsequent sepsis and death.
...this probably isn't making any of this better. I should shut up now.