So it would seem as though there are several of us here who are interested in death, or rather the study thereof.
I believe Fisk was the one who suggested a topic for this, so I figured, why not?
It seems everytime someone mentions they have found an interesting photo or video of something dead, several people would like to see them.
So this is where I suggest we do this. Link all photos here with a description of what they are.
I wasn't sure what thread this would be most appropriate under, feel free to move it.
Well, we do have the Picture Sharing Thread. Unless discussion is intended to ensue here, any linked pictures can just go there. Is there an intention to discuss the topic alongside showing pictures about it?
Yes. That was my reasoning for posting it in the gd, but if people don't actually discuss it, I'm perfectly fine with merging it. I was simply thinking that most of the other photos are for laughs, where as these are more of a serious matter? I didn't describe that exactly like I wanted to, but I think you catch my drift.
All right, discussion about it is fine, then. Carry on. ;)
I've been awaiting this thread my whole life.
This is Flatears, a cat that used to terrorise our own cats. We thought we scared him off months ago, but it turns out that he just died under our house. Check out that awesome honeycomb pattern going on by his shoulder/neck area- those were the ants going in and out of him through designated tunnels.
partially mummified cat (http://i43.tinypic.com/2hnp6rk.jpg)
dead cat close up (http://i43.tinypic.com/33actxd.jpg)
I found this google-searching undersea fish. (http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/5056/stuckeyftd9.jpg)
this is just so freaking cool (http://farm1.static.flickr.com/133/377618924_669f91554b.jpg)
obviously all links lead to dead animals, but these are all mummified/partially mummified due to snow/drying out/buried alive/etc.
Very, very cool.
I was wondering where that honeycomb effect had come from when you first showed me the cat photos.
and undersea fish was surprising. ha. I definitely wasn't expecting a dog. Interesting none the less
Second one made me laugh.
The only dead thing I'm interested in are zombies. Even then they are still uninteresting if I don't have sub-machine guns to spray bullets at them.
Just a preemptive forewarning, dead things are fun and cool, but this is for serious discussion. Let's not let this lead into tastelessness.
Quote from: Dr. Henry Killinger on June 11, 2009, 07:51:30 PM
Just a preemptive forewarning, dead things are fun and cool, but this is for serious discussion. Let's not let this lead into tastelessness.
What about gore? :3
Quote from: JQ Pickwick on June 11, 2009, 08:15:57 PM
Quote from: Dr. Henry Killinger on June 11, 2009, 07:51:30 PM
Just a preemptive forewarning, dead things are fun and cool, but this is for serious discussion. Let's not let this lead into tastelessness.
What about gore? :3
Quote from: Dr. Henry Killinger on June 11, 2009, 07:51:30 PMLet's not let this lead into tastelessness.
Quote from: Dr. Henry Killinger on June 11, 2009, 08:22:09 PM
Quote from: JQ Pickwick on June 11, 2009, 08:15:57 PM
Quote from: Dr. Henry Killinger on June 11, 2009, 07:51:30 PM
Just a preemptive forewarning, dead things are fun and cool, but this is for serious discussion. Let's not let this lead into tastelessness.
What about gore? :3
Quote from: Dr. Henry Killinger on June 11, 2009, 07:51:30 PMLet's not let this lead into tastelessness.
I would think that gore would be okay as long as it doesn't get to the point of being tasteless/disrespectful. Just add an extra warning saying that there is gore. And it must be something worthy of discussion.
Precisely. Gore is acceptable, as long as it isn't totally tasteless.
Hrmmm...I wonder if this counts?? (http://amnesiablog.wordpress.com/2008/08/02/montauk-monster-pictures-real-or-viral-hoax/)
Why why someone name it -saurus if it has fur and it's obviously not a reptile?
exactly what i was thinking.
and was it just me, or did it look more like a pig or a dog than some fearsome monster?
Didn't they eventually determine that it was a raccoon or sloth or something like that?
racccooon.
I had to sit there and walk through the fact that ears and noses get taken off when skinned to so many people- hell, even on some scientific communities I was one of the few not going AHHH OH MY GOD IT'S A MAN EATING BEAAST.
(http://i.pbase.com/u34/crocodile/large/34780171.raccoonDOR1.jpg)
even the posing is similar
'Tis a Red X 'o DOOOOM.
(http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z287/jimmygeorge/rabidcoon1.jpg)
that one better?
I want to share some photos from the cat dissection that my anatomy and physiology class participated in this year. These photos include gore. You see the inside of the cat and various organs. Ye have been warned.
there are several photos in this album (http://s74.photobucket.com/albums/i264/Pyrgusfinn/Cat%20Dissection/)
Did you guys have to skin the cat, as well, or did you just get the cat pre-skinned/the teacher do it? I'm going to be dissecting one early next school year and I've been curious.
I really admire how well laid out the insides of animals are- they're so neatly packed and placed. It reminds me of computer packaging, with styrofoam covering the important bits and stuff. it's funny how everything we do has already been done by nature.
yeah we got to skin the cats. It was actually a lot of fun..
we spent the last half of the year working with the cats.
And I totally didn't think of it like that. hrmm. :-\ we really do recreate what nature has done.
If you need any help next year, feel free to ask me about anything ^_^
mexican mummies (http://www.pbase.com/zymans/the_mummies_of_guanajuato). A friend of mine were discussing dead people and Mexicans and she linked me to this.
That one female baby is absolutely terrifying.
Quote from: Capt. Fiskers on June 15, 2009, 04:31:46 PM
mexican mummies (http://www.pbase.com/zymans/the_mummies_of_guanajuato). A friend of mine were discussing dead people and Mexicans and she linked me to this.
That one female baby is absolutely terrifying.
This is awesome! Any more pics of mummies? :3
Which baby?
Quote from: JQ Pickwick on June 15, 2009, 04:45:01 PM
Quote from: Capt. Fiskers on June 15, 2009, 04:31:46 PM
mexican mummies (http://www.pbase.com/zymans/the_mummies_of_guanajuato). A friend of mine were discussing dead people and Mexicans and she linked me to this.
That one female baby is absolutely terrifying.
This is awesome! Any more pics of mummies? :3
Which baby?
I concur!! Very cool fisk. <3
The mummies of guanajuato... naturally processed due to the type of soil in the area. Unlike Egyptian mummies, these are not "man-made".
I find them to have a strange beauty, if you ask me.
I get to dissect some kind of sea creature today, probably a lamprey. I will let you all know how that goes.
Quote from: Darth Wyndisis on June 16, 2009, 07:51:01 AM
I get to dissect some kind of sea creature today, probably a lamprey. I will let you all know how that goes.
Oh fun! I can't wait.
Oh, God, the smell was awful. It wasn't really a strong smell but was still gross and kept nagging at me. I couldn't really tell where its eyes were because they were all glazed over and half rotted. Oh, and it had a green liver. Its ovaries were huge; they seemed to take up most of the space inside the fish. When I went to throw it into the waste container with all the other lampreys the smell got out and I almost threw up all over the place.
Quote from: Darth Wyndisis on June 16, 2009, 10:32:58 AM
Oh, God, the smell was awful. It wasn't really a strong smell but was still gross and kept nagging at me. I couldn't really tell where its eyes were because they were all glazed over and half rotted. Oh, and it had a green liver. Its ovaries were huge; they seemed to take up most of the space inside the fish. When I went to throw it into the waste container with all the other lampreys the smell got out and I almost threw up all over the place.
That reminds me of my dissection experience, except we had a frog. The scalpel was dull so I had to pretty much saw it open, and the formaldehyde smell just made me have to constantly choke back vomit.
this is going to sound really weird, but I rather like that smell. haha. ;)
how was the actual dissection though? was it interesting other than the smell?
There really wasn't all that much to the dissection. We just cut them in half lengthwise. I had to do it with a scalpel, so it took a while to get all the way through. Once it was open we pretty much left the insides where they were and identify some of the internal organs.
hrmmm. that stinks. You should see if there are going to be any other opportunities for a more in depth dissection.