The top mistakes in The Six Million Dollar Man http://www.moviemistakes.com/tv5127 en Sat, 7 Jan 2006 06:56:02 +0000 90487 Questions of the era-appropriateness of the bionics technology aside, there's another problem with the use of the bionic arm. Even assuming it was capable of developing a ton of lift or more at the elbow and wrist joints, that still doesn't strengthen his shoulder and back similarly. In any of the type of situation where he used it to lift up the back of a vehicle or similar, all that would happen would be that the arm would draw his upper body <i>down</i> with bionic strength - quite possibly smacking his face into whatever it was he was attempting to lift.