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1	* His back is only flesh and blood. Why doesn't lifting huge weights injure it?
2	** Most likely his entire skeleton (except his head and his left arm) was reinforced, otherwise his legs would also injure him when running. (Not to mention when landing a high jump.)
3	** This troper has heard, second-hand, that one episode mentioned reinforcements that got implanted in his back for exactly this purpose.
4	*** The made for TV movie made much later than the series does mention this reinforcement.
5	** Martin Caidin, the creator of the character and also the writer of non-fiction works on aviation and science, has been quoted as saying he knows aspects of the bionic man were physically impossible, but a level of suspension of disbelief is needed in order for the concept to work.
6	* I recall that the bone marrow in his bones had been replaced with metal and the marrow transplanted onto the outsides of his bones to continue generating blood or something.
7	** The novelisations stated that Steve and Jamie's skeletons were strengthened. In fact, the entire bionic conversion was explained in detail in [[{{Padding}} every book]] (though, hilariously, the description for Steve Austin's conversion was more or less just straight copied for the Jamie Sommers novels, resulting in her being given bionic enhancements that were exclusively Steve's.
8	* So exactly how did the Venus probe manage to not explode during the long trip from Venus to Earth through the vacuum of space, when it couldn't even handle being lifted a few hundred feet up from the Earth's surface before exploding?
9	** Fatigue stress from all the forces the probe was subjected from launch, including the Venus flyby and re-entry into Earth's atmosphere? Eventually every material will fail given enough stress applied to it.
10	** It was perhaps enclosed in a pressurized capsule. Plus, they had fired a missile at it.
11	* Why does Steve get a new girlfriend at the end of every episode?
12	** Because he's the main character in an adventure series from UsefulNotes/TheSeventies.

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