so as many of you know my dad died in 1992. because he was a PhD he left a lot of books and notes behind. some are obviously fucking bemusing, like his thesis on the effect of asbestos on artifical lungs blah blah and some are sad like the letters he left behind. and a few are mysterious, like this. my mom started to reorg the bookshelves and as we were talking out the Encyclopedia of Modern Medicine he bought, this fell out. the back says nothing except a repeating watermark of "this paper manufactured by Kodak". this and the non ripped edges lead me to believe it's not an insert but possibly a photo he or one of his colleagues took. it's black and white, glossy paper, a little smaller than 8x10 but not by much. there are a few smudges and scratch marks on it, meaning before it was placed in the book it was pretty well handled. the mystery is of course, what the fuck it is:

http://gamingw.net/pubaccess/57278/piccie%20084.JPG


for proper size click the link.

on initial look it looks like a pressed flower but on closer inspection I'm wondering if it's not a piece of a destroyed lung or something. I have no fucking idea so maybe one of you could figure it out? it has very little sentimental value but still it is interesting to me.

plaster cast of the challenger disaster

Your dad was a prophet.




EDIT: that means I have no idea what that thing is fyi.

it's gotta be something medical I think. just the fact it's in the encyclopedia of medicine or whatever.

Celery?

NOT ON MY CELERY

just checked one of his early lung models. nothing on it looks like it, but it's also just a technical lung model with alveoli and all that. this could be a broken piece of a lung???

Looks like a tongue (above that is the nasal cavity), followed by the pharynx, larynx, and finally the esophagus to me!

its a shitty flower

this is art.

Looks like a tongue (above that is the nasal cavity), followed by the pharynx, larynx, and finally the esophagus to me!

is that really what it looks like or are you guessing? as I said it was in a medical book and he did a lot of lung work which would involve the throat!

Looks like a case of bonitis.

i think your initial guess of pressed flower was right

my first thought was SPLIFF but it really isnt, looking at it now

maybe its something to do with asbestos. i'm just working with the info i got, but it could be

please look at the blown up version btw the small one looks like a flower but the bigger one clearly shows weird ridges and shit on the "stalk"

it's jizz in midair.

try inverting the colours, i might be negative (not likely though)