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The body of a contortionist while performing a trick. This X-ray also shows that a significant part of the spine does not bend.

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • turdas@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    My neck hurts just looking at this.

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    • booscience@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      None of y’all are horny looking at this?

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      • apotheotic@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        No I for sure am

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      • BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Naah, it’s the wrong way around.

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      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You like looking at her coccyx, don’t ya?

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      • quantumvoid0@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        U alone on this one bruv

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      • Enkrod@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Dude it looks like a Halloween Rubber Ducky tipped onto its front… ofc I am.

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  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Image

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    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      “Chawklate? I rememba chawklate. Sweet, sweet chawklet. I ALWAYS HATED IT!”

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  • Th4tGuyII@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Damn, that neck part is doing basically all of the first 180° of bending. Rest of the spine be caught slacking.

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Would you want what your ribcage comes out of to bend?

      Might take your breath away, or break your heart, or both.

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  • 87Six@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Nice ass tho, big dawg

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  • lectricleopard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Thats got to be the rib cage holding it straight. Otherwise your ribs would famous, and I dont think you breasbone could stay connected.

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    • dave@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Your ribs would what now?

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      • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Become famous. I dont understand whats so confusing about that.

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  • SirSamuel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    …a significant part of the spine does not bend.

    My scoliosis would like a word

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  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That part of the spine is bent though. When standing up it naturally curves outward.

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    • Hule@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Wouldn’t your ribs have to fan out for that part to bend?

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      • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I’m thinking they compress towards the spine.

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  • LetThereBeNick@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Is this really an X-ray? I thought you’d see all the ribs and limb bones instead of an imaging slice like this

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    • Jajcus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It might be a slice of a CT scan, so still X-ray, but more and with a lot of post-processing.

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    • scribbler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      No way, no shoulders. Probably slop.

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      • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s a CT (computerized tomography) scan. It still uses X-rays but the results are in 3D so one can view “slices” of the image from different perspectives.

        The cartilage connecting the sternum to the ribs is in the same plane as the edge of the spine. Cartilage is radiolucent (doesn’t show well in X-rays) so that’s why there’s only the slightest hint of a ribcage - this slice is well past rib bone.

        Similarly the shoulder is much closer to the viewer’s perspective in the 3d model, so it’s not shown at all.

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      • Zorcron@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It dates back to at least 2016, so definitely not AI. Probably just a type of imaging that you’re not familiar with.

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      • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s a CT scan, which is why the shoulders don’t show. You can search how CT scanning works, if you want to learn something.

        Snopes claims it’s real.

        www.snopes.com/fact-check/xray-gymnast-trick/

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  • Sabata11792@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Pffft, my spine dose that shit when I sleep wrong.

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  • tacosanonymous@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It does bend just not in that direction.

    There’s no way she doesn’t pay for this later in life though.

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  • AstralPath@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Full scorpion.

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  • pandora@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I misread that as ‘cartoonist’ at first and thought this would gonna be a take on how they bend their own lore or something 😅

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  • Septimaeus@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Calcification of the chest wall is holding our contortionists back from their true cat-like potential.

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  • Starik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It would be odd to be standing behind a contortionist and see them tilt their head back to look at you while their body continues facing forward.

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  • pmk@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It would be interesting to see some statistics about contortionists and spondylolisthesis.

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  • Tiger_Man_@szmer.info ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    looks like they could suck their own dick

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    • RagingRobot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Can’t we all

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  • stenAanden@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Looks like something from a horror movie.

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