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mkkmypet

#41 March 02, 2009, 04:38:24 am

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it looks like an image taken using a scanning electron microscope. compare it to images from here: http://www.mos.org/sln/sem/sem.html

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dragonx

#42 March 02, 2009, 04:44:04 am

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hey mkk this looks a lot like that too

it doesnt look microscopic, it looks like plaster
a plaster model of the human respritory system or something

this picture looks somehwat similiar .... Hmmm

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#43 March 02, 2009, 04:50:43 am

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i was talking texture and focus, dragonx. not just that it's black and white. when you use an SEM it's characteristic to see a lot of depth of field, which i noticed in steel's picture. sure, the pic still looks like the respiratory system and it would make some sense for that to be it based on steel's dad's other studies. all i'm saying is that it definitely reminded me of SEM images and it might be worth it to consider it.

EDIT: see, it reminds me of something like this:

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another example (Click to reveal)

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#44 March 02, 2009, 05:05:29 am

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uh why would he take an SEM photo and not put any notes on it about what size it was or anything even on the back. also why would he get it printed out on kodak paper instead of normal paper. I'm pretty sure this is just a photo of something. it also doesn't look anything like an SEM.

also I got it climbtree but what's up with that pinched part about midway in the picture? do human throats get that thin?

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plus, i wonder how that would be made if it were.

the guy worked with pretty realistic lung models, I would not be surprised if he just filled a corpse with plaster. we had a hamster named Lucky when I was like three.

he got that name because he was the only one that survived.

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#45 March 02, 2009, 05:08:44 am

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ALSO: while I can barely follow what he wrote about, I just realized that none of his PhD work included glossy pictures. hmm why would he do this post-PhD?

if you've still got guesses keep them coming; he worked in almost every science field since he had a major in like three of them and worked for NASA and dudes who were making laser guns and shit. he also worked to make some system to make sure old dudes wouldn't fall down anymore, but I don't know what became of that other than some weird vids we have of him strapped to a pulley system.

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#46 March 02, 2009, 05:09:40 am

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Quote from: Magical Negro on March 02, 2009, 05:05:29 am

uh why would he take an SEM photo and not put any notes on it about what size it was or anything even on the back. also why would he get it printed out on kodak paper instead of normal paper. I'm pretty sure this is just a photo of something. it also doesn't look anything like an SEM.

also I got it climbtree but what's up with that pinched part about midway in the picture? do human throats get that thin?

the guy worked with pretty realistic lung models, I would not be surprised if he just filled a corpse with plaster. we had a hamster named Lucky when I was like three.

he got that name because he was the only one that survived.

hahah, interesting. but yeah, i was wondering what the squeezed part would be too. i guess it could work if that is where the epiglottis was. but why is the esophagus a solid tube and the pharynx is all cut up and only showing one side? hmmmmm

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#47 March 02, 2009, 05:29:05 am

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yeah thats def. not a SEM or TEM pic. it's a photo taken with a regular camera, not a microscope camera. i actually agree mostly with the mouth cavity/esophagus theory. plaster looks about right. that thin part is a little weird, though.

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#48 March 02, 2009, 05:31:44 am

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It might not even be your dad's. Maybe a colleague's?

Was your dad ever into botany?

I really don't see what purpose it would serve as a model of the throat. It's a picture, so how do you take a picture of the innards of the throat, and exclude the rest? Unless you can pour something into the throat and scan it with some x-ray-like device. But even for that, there's too much texture. It has to be microscopic.

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#49 March 02, 2009, 05:32:11 am

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Quote from: Magical Negro on March 02, 2009, 05:05:29 am

the guy worked with pretty realistic lung models, I would not be surprised if he just filled a corpse with plaster.

It looked like a cast to me too.

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#50 March 02, 2009, 05:32:27 am

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that tribe that uses rings to extend their necks.

it's one of their corpses, filled with plaster, and then remove the plaster, and you get the mystery photo

obviously somebody was studying the effect of neck-extension (neckstension)

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#51 March 02, 2009, 05:35:42 am

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Actually nvm this makes much more sense. The corpse would have been laying down as the plaster is poured, and apparently not enough was poured. But it would account for the shape.

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#52 March 02, 2009, 05:52:14 am

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yeah I'm beginning to believe it's the inside of a throat. cool. I should have not said anything and just posted the pic and said GW

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#53 March 02, 2009, 06:13:18 am

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yeah, it definitely looks like the nasal cavity and throat. but why would there be a plaster mould of a throat? I have never heard of this. how would they get the mould out?? it could be plastination or something similar. but why exactly he would have a picture of this I have no clue, I can't tell if there's anything particularly remarkable about the model or if it's just a throat. the bumps you guys are talking about do seem out of place but idk, they could be tendons or tonsils or something. this might help http://antiquescientifica.com/anatomical_model__Auzoux_mouth_tongue_overall_back.jpg

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#54 March 02, 2009, 09:38:23 am

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maybe it's to show how people breathe

either way he was just using it as a bookmark evidently, he could have picked up anything and used it

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#55 March 02, 2009, 03:34:54 pm

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Great thought behind it. Someone had the balls to pour plaster into a corpse, then saw the corpse vertically in HALF to get it out again. Great visuals afterwards. This is one of the reasons why I'm not going to work on the medical field.

Speaking of which, have they let you back into law school Steel?

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#56 March 02, 2009, 04:53:25 pm

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Quote from: Juris on March 02, 2009, 03:34:54 pm

Great thought behind it. Someone had the balls to pour plaster into a corpse, then saw the corpse vertically in HALF to get it out again. Great visuals afterwards. This is one of the reasons why I'm not going to work on the medical field.

This is exactly why I would have liked medicine.

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#57 March 02, 2009, 05:18:04 pm

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Has anyone seen the Bodies Exhibit or whatever it's called? It's basically a bunch of plasticized corpses (including babies, fetuses). Some of them are even vertically sliced and displayed like a book. Now that's some pretty gruesome work. Doctors these days.

Oh yeah, turned out later on some of those bodies came from a Chinese black market (I knew there was a disproportionate number of Asians).

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#58 March 02, 2009, 05:58:15 pm

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body worlds and maybe possibly some of them were perhaps dead chinese prisoners (political ones? i don't remember)

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#59 March 02, 2009, 07:52:37 pm

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Quote from: Magical Negro on March 02, 2009, 05:08:44 am

if you've still got guesses keep them coming; he worked in almost every science field since he had a major in like three of them and worked for NASA and dudes who were making laser guns and shit. he also worked to make some system to make sure old dudes wouldn't fall down anymore, but I don't know what became of that other than some weird vids we have of him strapped to a pulley system.

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#60 March 02, 2009, 08:35:29 pm

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Quote from: stern_gupples on March 01, 2009, 09:56:42 pm

it's jizz in midair.

this is actually pretty funny. i keep picturing it as a liquid now lol.

also, if it is just a plaster cast, it's pretty distubring to imagine how they got it OUT... maybe i shouldn't have donated my organs to science..

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