The body of a contortionist while performing a trick. This X-ray also shows that a significant part of the spine does not bend.

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turdas@suppo.fi · 113 pts · 76d

My neck hurts just looking at this.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus · 53 pts · 76d (1 reply)

Damn, Mary's mom has been working out

wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 76d

"Chawklate? I rememba chawklate. Sweet, sweet chawklet. I ALWAYS HATED IT!"

Th4tGuyII@fedia.io · 39 pts · 76d (1 reply)

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 · 10 pts · 76d

Would you want what your ribcage comes out of to bend significantly?

Might take your breath away, or break your heart, or both.

87Six@lemmy.zip · 28 pts · 76d

Nice ass tho, big dawg

lectricleopard@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 76d (3 replies)

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 · 10 pts · 76d (2 replies)

Your ribs would what now?

LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 76d (1 reply)

Become famous. I dont understand whats so confusing about that.

dave@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 76d

But it doesn’t say ‘become’. That totally changed the meaning. My breasbone can brease easy now, thank you!

SirSamuel@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 76d (1 reply)

…a significant part of the spine does not bend.

My scoliosis would like a word

luxadazy@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 76d
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YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 21 pts · 76d (2 replies)

That part of the spine is bent though. When standing up it naturally curves outward.

Hule@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 75d (1 reply)

Wouldn't your ribs have to fan out for that part to bend?

YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 75d

I'm thinking they compress towards the spine.

LetThereBeNick@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 76d (5 replies)

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 · 20 pts · 76d

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 · -6 pts · 76d (3 replies)

No way, no shoulders. Probably slop.

SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 76d

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 sternum is in the the same plane as the spine from this angle, so that's why there's only the slightest hint of a ribcage and only the sternum - this slice is well past rib bones.

Similarly the shoulder is much closer to the viewer's perspective in the 3d model, so it's not shown at all.

Edit: misinterpreted CT slice location.

Zorcron@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 76d

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 · 2 pts · 76d

It's not slop. 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.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/xray-gymnast-trick/

Sabata11792@ani.social · 12 pts · 76d

Pffft, my spine dose that shit when I sleep wrong.

tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 76d

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 · 7 pts · 76d

Full scorpion.

Starik@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 76d

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.

Septimaeus@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 75d

Calcification of the chest wall is holding our contortionists back from their true cat-like potential.

pmk@piefed.ca · 4 pts · 76d

It would be interesting to see some statistics about contortionists and spondylolisthesis.

pandora@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 76d

I misread that as 'cartoonist' at first and thought this would gonna be a take on how they bend their own lore or something 😅

Mantzy81@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 76d

That reminds me, I've not watched Alien for a while.

stenAanden@feddit.dk · 3 pts · 76d

Looks like something from a horror movie.

Tiger_Man_@szmer.info · 3 pts · 75d (1 reply)

looks like they could suck their own dick

RagingRobot@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 75d

Can't we all

Fleur_@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 75d (1 reply)

What would happen if you did this to a regular person lol

captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 75d

An assault and battery charge.

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 76d
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Darkard@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 76d
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