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A friend of mine just got a 3d MRI picture of his skull. I'm
sure some VCP could put this on a computer pointillist carver
deal and render a life-sized version of his actual skull.
It would be really cool if there were a place that you could go
to get your entire skeleton recreated to hang
in your yard for
Halloween. Kind of a vanity thing, but it would be cool. Do
the whole family, even the cat and the dog.
It may even have some application for doctors who are
tactilely sensitive.
De-fleshing service
De-fleshing_20Service
For comparison. [nomocrow, Apr 20 2011]
Snowflakes for [Loris]
http://www.wired.co...id=831&viewall=true
These might convince you that all snowflakes could be unique. The amount of detail and variation is amazing. [spidermother, Apr 26 2011]
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[+] ... think I heard that the Vatican has the skull of St.John at 8 years old and another one of the same guy after he was beheaded. |
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Why stop at the skeleton? Print out your entire body. I could see the disect-yourself kit for pre-meds (using colored plastics for different organs), a your-own-doll for kids (complete with a full line of clothing and smoothed over private areas), etc. |
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Can't you just choose an appropriate same species skeleton and assert that it is yours? Unless you have a baculum or some other skeletal aspect diverging from species norm, it would be hard to disprove that it was yours. |
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Combine this with vat grown meat and eat yourself! |
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Print it out in miniature and keep it on a keyring. |
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[bungston] - It would be very embarrassing to have
everyone find out that you were fronting someone
else's skeleton (when the survivors hang up the real
one). |
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Already being done. The reasons are a bit more serious, and sane. However, when the porogen scafold printing tech becomes ubiquitous, then why not? |
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Hell, it could even be alive (in a sense) like a bonsai me... |
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Yes, Yes, and one more yes. What a great idea. I
want mine. |
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"Easily" obtained with a series of 3D scan and stereolithography (rapid prototyping). Uber expensive, and a very long and slow process though. |
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[+] yes, I think my skeleton is skinnier than me!! haha |
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I see, my own personalised Terminator...just what I always wanted... |
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I envision executives using a model of their own skull as a pencil holder. |
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I'd like to flesh it out with realistic organs and proceed to torture it "to death". |
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I've been worrying about losing my hair, mostly because my skull seems to have a funny bump or two (I hope it's extra brain, but my phrenologist ... (why does my browser's spellchecker know "phrenologist"?)) .... sorry, that just gobsmacked me out of where I was going... |
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Anyhow, people will see my misshapen skull over my dead body. |
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That's quite the image you've left us with there. |
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...could the //bump or two// be some bacon [baconbrain]? |
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They could be those little bone-buttons that you used to get
in bacon. Actually, they don't seem to exist anymore. Have
pigs changed their anatomy, or are butchers a bit more
careful these days? |
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That I am not authorized to disclose. |
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//They could be those little bone-buttons that you used to
get in bacon. Actually, they don't seem to exist anymore// |
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So that's what happened to the crispy bacon we used to have
before
the war? |
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Which war was that, exactly? |
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We are pleased to be able to inform you that BorgCo offers a
much cheaper, faster and greener method of obtaining not just a
model of the cat's skeleton, but the actual genuine skeleton itself.
.. |
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Admittedly, the method isn't a very positive experience for the
cat. |
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//Which war was that, exactly?// Has there been more than
one? Dang, I really must catch up on my newspaper reading. |
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//Unless you have a baculum or some other skeletal aspect diverging from species norm// |
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There are a multitude of cranial variations within what most would consider normal. Hence phrenology. I am almost certain I could differentiate between a copy of my skull and a randomly picked human skull, as could most anyone else with the level of vanity required to want one of these. |
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"[MikeD], the only man other than Zaphoh Beeblebrox for whom
the Total Perspective Vortex holds no fear. .. |
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[8th]; I heard that after the loss of the piece of fairy cake, you returned the vortex to Fully-Mission-Capable status with a piece of alley cat. |
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//There are a multitude of cranial variations within what most would consider normal. Hence phrenology. I am almost certain I could differentiate between a copy of my skull and a randomly picked human skull, as could most anyone else with the level of vanity required to want one of these.// |
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Is every skull unique, like snowflakes?
(FWIW, I don't actually believe that about snowflakes). |
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Funnily enough, one of my ambitions is to get my skull turned into a paper-weight. I like to think of it resting its upper teeth on the desk of one of my descendants. I've not actually done anything about arranging it yet, though.
Why? Well, there's a blessing (perhaps ancient and chinese) : "May all your wishes come true, except one". It's good to have a plan which can't be brought to fruition until after I'm dead. |
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Beware, [Loris], some might see that as an opportunity- or
indeed a challenge. .. |
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//Is every skull unique, like snowflakes?// |
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Down to the cellular level? I don't see how it couldn't be. I'm sure even identical twins would have subtle differences due to external factors whilst the cranial cartilidge ossified. |
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To me, most of the suturing between cranial plates looks totally random, at anything below an half-inch level. |
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