Would be more ethical to buy a full body autopsy CT scan its’s only a fewthousands dollars) to get a 3D model, then 3D print a replica of his skeleton out of something not biodegradable.
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Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 week ago
What if I put it in my will that I want my skeleton turned into a kick ass statue in a WH4K style marine suit?
anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
owsei@programming.dev 1 week ago
how is that more ethical if they want that?
anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Not dessicrating the corpse, since CT xray is nondestructive.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
What would be the point? Space marine armor is fully enclosed, nobody would see the skeleton anyway.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s not for them, it’s for my skeleton.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Akshully, a significant portion of them prefers to fight without a helmet where possible, for various reasons such as chapter culture. The primarchs are also often depicted without helmets, but considering the lore is essentially imperial propaganda it might make sense to depict them that way for PR reasons.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Wearing insanely heavy armor only to leave the helmet off seems like the kind of thing so obviously stupid it should be kept out of propaganda material at all costs.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Not defending the practice in a combat scenario because that’s obviously dumb especially in the uber warfare thats happening in 40k. Virus bombs that can destroy entire ecosystems in proverbial seconds, rounds and shells with more diameter than a fucking bus, fucking sorcery of the worst kind is a frequent encounter as well.
But for propaganda material it makes a lot of sense I’d say, the masses need to see their heroes’ faces. There are also some marine chapters that use mutated or otherwise extreme gene seed when making their warriors, for example one chapter becomes a lot more animalistic in its physical characteristics and the helmet negatively impacts their altered natural senses.