The body of a contortionist while performing a trick. This X-ray also shows that a significant part of the spine does not bend.
Submitted 1 week ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 1 week ago
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
“Chawklate? I rememba chawklate. Sweet, sweet chawklet. I ALWAYS HATED IT!”
Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 1 week ago
Damn, that neck part is doing basically all of the first 180° of bending. Rest of the spine be caught slacking.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Would you want what your ribcage comes out of to bend?
Might take your breath away, or break your heart, or both.
87Six@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Nice ass tho, big dawg
lectricleopard@lemmy.world 1 week 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.
dave@feddit.uk 1 week ago
Your ribs would what now?
LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
Become famous. I dont understand whats so confusing about that.
SirSamuel@lemmy.world 1 week ago
…a significant part of the spine does not bend.
My scoliosis would like a word
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 week ago
That part of the spine is bent though. When standing up it naturally curves outward.
Hule@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Wouldn’t your ribs have to fan out for that part to bend?
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 week ago
I’m thinking they compress towards the spine.
LetThereBeNick@lemmy.zip 1 week 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
Jajcus@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
It might be a slice of a CT scan, so still X-ray, but more and with a lot of post-processing.
scribbler@lemmy.world 1 week ago
No way, no shoulders. Probably slop.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week 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.
Zorcron@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
It dates back to at least 2016, so definitely not AI. Probably just a type of imaging that you’re not familiar with.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 week 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.
Sabata11792@ani.social 1 week ago
Pffft, my spine dose that shit when I sleep wrong.
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 1 week ago
It does bend just not in that direction.
There’s no way she doesn’t pay for this later in life though.
AstralPath@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Full scorpion.
pandora@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week 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 😅
Septimaeus@infosec.pub 1 week ago
Calcification of the chest wall is holding our contortionists back from their true cat-like potential.
Starik@lemmy.world 1 week 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.
pmk@piefed.ca 1 week ago
It would be interesting to see some statistics about contortionists and spondylolisthesis.
Tiger_Man_@szmer.info 1 week ago
looks like they could suck their own dick
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Can’t we all
stenAanden@feddit.dk 1 week ago
Looks like something from a horror movie.
turdas@suppo.fi 1 week ago
My neck hurts just looking at this.
booscience@beehaw.org 1 week ago
None of y’all are horny looking at this?
apotheotic@beehaw.org 1 week ago
No I for sure am
BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 1 week ago
Naah, it’s the wrong way around.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
You like looking at her coccyx, don’t ya?
quantumvoid0@programming.dev 1 week ago
U alone on this one bruv
Enkrod@feddit.org 1 week ago
Dude it looks like a Halloween Rubber Ducky tipped onto its front… ofc I am.