Medical technology in starwars

I have come across many instances in the EU of the sophistication of medical technology in the GFFA, many injuries ranging from cuts/scrapes to lacerations and burns are treated with Bacta, Bacta seems to be a do-everything medical agent but it also seems to be if I read write in the EU to be exspensive to produce and use and is only used for the most critical cases. I have seen in the EU cases that would leave somebody dead/dying or crippled wounds to the chest or stomach that would normally cause some body to die soon after even with treatment we have now, I have seen in the Chewbacca TPB that even though some woman bounty hunter had been swathed in flames from an engine that most have been 1000+ degrees, she was able to survive; though she will never be pretty again. If that had happened to a person from today they would be dead or ****** for life.

The most extreme case I have heard is some kid having 4th degree burns to over I think around 80-90% of his body. The thing I want to say is: How advanced is starwars medical technology and is stuff like they use in it fesible in the near-future? I am just glad that stawars never gone the startrek way with some instant healing beam things that can knit togther a broken bone in like 5 seconds, just seems really outlandish instead of just using regular true and tryed methods.

 

Besises prothstetic replacement SW med-tech is ate standards with our own. Not due to their fault. Kolto and then Bacta has always been in use for thousands of years. They are stundted in that area of development.

On a lighter note Nano-robo-technology is used for torture. An Off comment By Mara Jade-Skywalker, That the her "eyes felt like Nano-bots were cutting them to bits." oe something like that.

 

sw medtech is advanced, but since the Empire restriced use of most tech to themselves and the upper class citizens and Imperial loyalists, the rebels have no other choice than to steal bacta or use the lower med tech we know from our real live.

if watching all the science in star wars, from hyperdrives, dark science projects, cloning etc. their tech and science is much more advanced than ours, but it is not availeable for everybody.

some tech exists only on certain planets, cultures. others already are galaxy wide known. and much is restricted in favor of profitmaking for the owners of med coroporations who produce the lower tech stuff. (like in real life!)

 

Kolto immersion predated bacta baths, and Pydyrian healing sticks were common inbetween those periods.

 

Thanks guys, do you think we earthlings will eventually have medical technology comparable to the stuff used in starwars?

 

For starters its Terran, not Earthling. Earther if you want to use a derogatory term.

We are Terran.

Two, Nano technology and Carbon nanotube material is not that far off. As for the Space travel. hate to brake it to you. Fission rockts have been around since the 1960's. We should have landed on Mars 15 years ago at the latest. We should have a permanent Moon bas and reaserch sations around venus by now. But short term thhinking by Previous and current andministrations, as well a reactionary fear everything nuclear groups have kept us earthbound.

For all intents and purposes we should be sending exploritory missions into the Jovian and Saturanin planetary systems.

 

"and Pydyrian healing sticks were common inbetween those periods."

And it says in NR that a few people actually prefered those to Bacta. I have a KOTOR question, what exactly are those Republic soldiers Zelka has in his med lab on Taris healing in. Is it Kolto?

 

They're already exploring micrscopic nanotech for medicinal purposes. I find that laudable, as these tiny machines are supposed to locate and repair damaged tissue structure, as all these articles claim?

The same advanced companies that promised a genuine skycar by 2005. $50k, two seater, van size, emergency parachutes that allegedly won't entangle in tightpoles and other stuff, Vertical Take Off & Landing flight control. I'll believe it when I see it.

Yes, Zelka's patients are in kolto tanks. The Sith Lords allows you to recover in them too, specifically called kolto tanks. Same thing as bacta, different name.

 

Sabrajaguar posted on 3/20/05 6:50pm

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For starters its Terran, not Earthling. Earther if you want to use a derogatory term.
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Hehe, and who would use that derogatory term? Martians?

 

Why not Earthian? Australian, Mongholian, Singaporean. Just because books decades ago said Earthling doesn't mean we must do so now. I noticed that in Hard Contact, she makes her own expressions and verbs, the way I do. That's not easy to pull off with an editor, so it's great to see evolution at work.

 

Okay, sorry, I'll use the term Terrans from now on, but what is so bad about using the term Earthling? Yeah, and I am also pissed off at how the previous and current administrations have hacked are space budget and bungled resources. I want to see some kind of FTL travel in my lifetime; but I fear that will not be possible.

 

yeah...im guessin FTL travel prolly isnt gonna happen anytime soon...or even relatively soon

 

Hmm...correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't third-degree burns the highest in severity? Unless the classification of "fourth-degree burn" came about recently, that's a term I'm unfamiliar with...

As to the topic at hand, we'll probably see "cures" to a few major diseases in the next few decades. It's probable that certain forms of cancer, as well as some types of diabetes, may be headed toward elimination in the near future.

As to humans accomplishing FTL travel...not going to happen in the near future, if ever. That's not to say we couldn't come close. I don't know if this project was abandoned or not, but back in the nineties there was talk of creating a small unmanned probe to investigate the Alpha Centauri system. Such a probe would leave Earth around 2020 and reach the Alpha Centauri system sometime in 2045. I believe the project was known as Starwisp. Anyone else remember hearing/reading about this one???

 

4th degree burns go all the way to the bone and many times have required amputation of the limb, they were I think originally named as deep 3rd degree burns, I worked at a medical library for about 6 weeks so I know some stuff. Just type into google 4th degree burns and you will probably find info about it.

 

Hmm...interesting. I might have to do just that.

 

Hmmm. First let them get a terrestial landing insystem right, then go outside the Solar. And how would the comm signals get back, if it takes Voyager 2 and 1 so long to transmit back themselves?

They just touched down on Titan, actually. Saw some fuzzy holos on ABC the other week.

 

Without having too much direct knowlegde of the Medceine in SW. I think the existance of nanobots is really just a question of logic. How probable is it that a galactic civilization has had human-level intellegence computers for centuries, and doesn't have nanobots?

Be warned, the following is an OUT OF GALAXY explination. That being said, I've actually been thinking a lot about this latley.

I think it is very similar to the 'droids being sentient' thing.

There are lots of conflicts in the real world, (like sentience of droids) that don't really get a lot of play in the offical Literature, beaecuse its not in tune with the style of star wars. Medicine I think is very similar. When someone is hurt and the author needs them alive, Bacta (or colto) does the job. If the author needs to kill them off, its just not enough, they were too badly injured.

 

You know, now that I think about it, I think the signals from Starwisp were supposed to start getting back to Earth around 2045. Again, who knows if the Starwisp Project will ever come to fruition???

 

As to humans accomplishing FTL travel...not going to happen in the near future, if ever. That's not to say we couldn't come close. I don't know if this project was abandoned or not, but back in the nineties there was talk of creating a small unmanned probe to investigate the Alpha Centauri system. Such a probe would leave Earth around 2020 and reach the Alpha Centauri system sometime in 2045. I believe the project was known as Starwisp. Anyone else remember hearing/reading about this one???

I've heard of something like that - though I don't remember the name 'starwisp'.

However, It would take far longer than 15 years to get to Alpha Centauri. Hell, if you were going at the speed of light, it would take you 4 1/2 years. I was under the impression it would take closer to 50 years.

 

None of the 'Starwisp' type solar sailers are technically feasible at this point in time. That particular design required a 10 gigawatt laser that would operate for 40 years continously for 40 years and the ability to construct a 3.6km diameter aluminium sail 16 nanometres thick. It has to be done in space.

Maybe in 100 years or so. Though we'll have run out of oil by then, so who knows.

 

Yeah, no more oil, bummer; there goes much of human civilization because we use oil byproducts in alot of the stuff we have today. I fear for the human race as a species.