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 4 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus 4 weeks ago
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
“Chawklate? I rememba chawklate. Sweet, sweet chawklet. I ALWAYS HATED IT!”
Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
Nice ass tho, big dawg
lectricleopard@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
Your ribs would what now?
LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Become famous. I dont understand whats so confusing about that.
SirSamuel@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
…a significant part of the spine does not bend.
My scoliosis would like a word
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
That part of the spine is bent though. When standing up it naturally curves outward.
Hule@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Wouldn’t your ribs have to fan out for that part to bend?
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
I’m thinking they compress towards the spine.
LetThereBeNick@lemmy.zip 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
No way, no shoulders. Probably slop.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
Pffft, my spine dose that shit when I sleep wrong.
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
Full scorpion.
pandora@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
Calcification of the chest wall is holding our contortionists back from their true cat-like potential.
Starik@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
It would be interesting to see some statistics about contortionists and spondylolisthesis.
Tiger_Man_@szmer.info 4 weeks ago
looks like they could suck their own dick
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Can’t we all
stenAanden@feddit.dk 4 weeks ago
Looks like something from a horror movie.
turdas@suppo.fi 4 weeks ago
My neck hurts just looking at this.
booscience@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
None of y’all are horny looking at this?
apotheotic@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
No I for sure am
BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Naah, it’s the wrong way around.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
You like looking at her coccyx, don’t ya?
quantumvoid0@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
U alone on this one bruv
Enkrod@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Dude it looks like a Halloween Rubber Ducky tipped onto its front… ofc I am.