'Potential'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
no. does not help. hey, ita, TV is now all set up and lori is watching it as she assembles major furniture.
Seriously. We are in the middle of the Great Purge of '05.
the books alone are leaving me askeered. But I can't see that I'll feel bad about it in a few weeks. Instead I will have space, glorious space.
ita, have you seen this book: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers? Fascinating, and sometimes funny....
We are in the middle of the Great Purge of '05.
Not bad, if you're already in the middle and it's only Day Two.
Yay for the new TV!
I think it's that if it were bloody, or swollen, or festering, or oozing, or smelly -- I'd think it gruesome. But so systematically preserved? It's just COOL.
Jesse L. Martin is a very beautiful man.
My toaster is broken, so I crave nothing more than toast.
Well, okay, if the likes of Jesse L Martin showed up at my door, I'd at least defer the toast thing.
But if he were bringing me a toaster, he'd be the perfect man.
At the Museum of Science and Industry, they have some corpses that have been sliced into sections about 1/4" thick. Those are cool....
Mmm...Jesse Martin.
I realize I'm weirded out that TNT is still showing the ads with Jerry Orbach. Not Lenny, I can deal with Lenny. It's the not-in-character stuff that feels funny.
have you seen this book: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers? Fascinating, and sometimes funny....
Cannibalism! Excellent!
This is what we want to see. So cool.
Maybe one of the cadavers will be a virgin.
This is what we want to see. So cool.
Ooh, I'd totally go see that....
The plastination technique replaces bodily fluids and fat with reactive polymers, such as silicone rubber, epoxy resins, or polyester. In a first phase, solvent gradually replaces bodily fluids in a cold solvent bath (freeze substitution). After dehydration, the specimen is put in a solvent bath at room temperature to dissolve and remove the fat. The dehydrated and defatted specimen is then placed into a polymer solution. The solvent is then brought to a boil in a vacuum and continuously extracted from the specimen. The evaporating solvent creates a volume deficit within the specimen, drawing the polymer gradually into the tissue. After the process of forced impregnation, the specimen is cured with gas, light, or heat, depending on the type of polymer used.
Of course, my first reaction to reading this was to wonder: If you did this to a live person, would you end up with a new superhero, Or a supervillian?
Since it sounds like it might be a tad painful, I'd say supervillain.