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I doubt that even Tracy would accept that they would have capable replacements on site, and trust that they merely wouldn't scoop out his insides and leave him to die.

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A liver, spleen, kidney, gallbladder, colon, duodenum, pancreas. He could go with out these for sometime, without his body screwing up too bad.

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What organs could he possibly be carrying ? A liver, spleen, kidney, gallbladder, colon, duodenum, pancreas. He could go with out these for sometime, without his body screwing up too bad. ( with proper psyological and metabolical adaptations,not to mention surgery)

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Originally posted by pyrofalkon:
A recent convert to Firefly had missed the broadcast of the message, and had asked me to explain it to him. While I was doing so, I realized I didn't fully comprehend it.

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Simon detects Tracy's anomalous anatomy after connecting a pulse-rate detector to Tracy's finger, so it's his heart at the very least.

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But isn't it that the heart he has doesn't register as actually pumping? That's the part I don't get about the organs. I understand that he's carrying organs that aren't his, but I don't understand why they don't register on the machines as functioning.

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I didn't think they were registering as not functioning, but reading outside the normal functional limits. Tracy says something like "they run a bit hot". I'm guessing that these organs are more powerful and efficient than normal. An Olympic marathon runner has a very low resting heart rate because her heart is in such good condition. If Tracy's heart is better than human he might have a resting heart rate of, say, 20-30 beats per minute, enough to appear that his heart is stopping. Makes you wonder what the rest of the organs are capable of. Holding his breath for 10 minutes? Drinking sea water? Breathing the air on Wash's home planet?

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