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Far, far too many people would sincerely say it looks legit dispite looking like a horrible paper mache project done for a middle-school art class. Pretty depre

by rnd0 3y ago

Far, far too many people would sincerely say it looks legit dispite looking like a horrible paper mache project done for a middle-school art class. Pretty depressing tbh

iancmceachern 3y ago
Totally, we can do better. There is a company called Syndaver Labs. They make synthetic cadavers. Basically various goos of various consistancies and colors all put together to make a synthetic cadaver for medical device development and testing, medical training, etc. The full human is something like $60k, and it doesn't even last forever. They need to be refrigerated, smell weird, and generally kind of fall apart not that unlike organic tissue. Usually we don't buy the full body, we don't need that. Usually we buy a lung or an ear, torso, arm, head, whatever we need to do our work. Those are still pretty expensive. They're actually usually more expensive than a regular cadaver, which is like $6k. Next question I usually get, why use the fake one then? Ethics. We typically try to make the most of the sacrifice, so we only use cadavers even absolutely necessary and where it would help prevent human or animal suffering. If engineers need to try some 3d printed prototypes out, that kind of thing. All that to say, they should be able to.make better fake aliens. They should call the folks at Syndaver... https://syndaver.com/ https://syndaver.com/
- hulitu 3y ago
  > Totally, we can do better. > The full human is something like $60k, and it doesn't even last forever. I don't think this guy has such a budget. He could improve its knowledge about skeletons and about art, but for a first prototype, looks ok. /s
  - iancmceachern 3y ago
    Maybe that guy doesn't have the budget, but I'm sure we can find people who do. Gotta admit, it would be fun to run a "oceans 11" devils advocate best effort to fake aliens. We could make some pretty convincing fake alien bodies, some crop circles and program some kind of drone light show and combine them all to make some kind of spectacle. It'd be like that Balloon boy thing... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon_boy_hoax https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon_boy_hoax We'd come clean after a few days, but only after we secured a reality show deal with TLC and a few exclusives with TMZ and whatnot.

by rnd0 3y ago

Far, far too many people would sincerely say it looks legit dispite looking like a horrible paper mache project done for a middle-school art class. Pretty depressing tbh

iancmceachern 3y ago

Totally, we can do better. There is a company called Syndaver Labs. They make synthetic cadavers. Basically various goos of various consistancies and colors all put together to make a synthetic cadaver for medical device development and testing, medical training, etc. The full human is something like $60k, and it doesn't even last forever. They need to be refrigerated, smell weird, and generally kind of fall apart not that unlike organic tissue. Usually we don't buy the full body, we don't need that. Usually we buy a lung or an ear, torso, arm, head, whatever we need to do our work. Those are still pretty expensive. They're actually usually more expensive than a regular cadaver, which is like $6k. Next question I usually get, why use the fake one then? Ethics. We typically try to make the most of the sacrifice, so we only use cadavers even absolutely necessary and where it would help prevent human or animal suffering. If engineers need to try some 3d printed prototypes out, that kind of thing. All that to say, they should be able to.make better fake aliens. They should call the folks at Syndaver... https://syndaver.com/ https://syndaver.com/

hulitu 3y ago
> Totally, we can do better. > The full human is something like $60k, and it doesn't even last forever. I don't think this guy has such a budget. He could improve its knowledge about skeletons and about art, but for a first prototype, looks ok. /s
- iancmceachern 3y ago
  Maybe that guy doesn't have the budget, but I'm sure we can find people who do. Gotta admit, it would be fun to run a "oceans 11" devils advocate best effort to fake aliens. We could make some pretty convincing fake alien bodies, some crop circles and program some kind of drone light show and combine them all to make some kind of spectacle. It'd be like that Balloon boy thing... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon_boy_hoax https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon_boy_hoax We'd come clean after a few days, but only after we secured a reality show deal with TLC and a few exclusives with TMZ and whatnot.