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 2 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 2 months ago
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
“Chawklate? I rememba chawklate. Sweet, sweet chawklet. I ALWAYS HATED IT!”
Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Nice ass tho, big dawg
lectricleopard@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
Your ribs would what now?
LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Become famous. I dont understand whats so confusing about that.
SirSamuel@lemmy.world 2 months ago
…a significant part of the spine does not bend.
My scoliosis would like a word
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 months ago
That part of the spine is bent though. When standing up it naturally curves outward.
Hule@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wouldn’t your ribs have to fan out for that part to bend?
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I’m thinking they compress towards the spine.
LetThereBeNick@lemmy.zip 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
No way, no shoulders. Probably slop.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Pffft, my spine dose that shit when I sleep wrong.
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 2 months 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 2 months ago
Full scorpion.
pandora@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months 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 2 months ago
Calcification of the chest wall is holding our contortionists back from their true cat-like potential.
Starik@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
It would be interesting to see some statistics about contortionists and spondylolisthesis.
Tiger_Man_@szmer.info 2 months ago
looks like they could suck their own dick
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Can’t we all
stenAanden@feddit.dk 2 months ago
Looks like something from a horror movie.
turdas@suppo.fi 2 months ago
My neck hurts just looking at this.
booscience@beehaw.org 2 months ago
None of y’all are horny looking at this?
apotheotic@beehaw.org 2 months ago
No I for sure am
BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 2 months ago
Naah, it’s the wrong way around.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
You like looking at her coccyx, don’t ya?
quantumvoid0@programming.dev 2 months ago
U alone on this one bruv
Enkrod@feddit.org 2 months ago
Dude it looks like a Halloween Rubber Ducky tipped onto its front… ofc I am.