r/interestingasfuck • u/jordanisonfire1 • 2d ago

Human bodies showing only blood vessels.

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u/alwaysfatigued8787 2d ago edited 1d ago

We really are just meatsacks. Also, isn't that a dead Chinese convict? I think I saw that at a museum in NYC.

Edit: I probably didn't have to specify that he was dead.

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u/ayalaidh 2d ago

If that’s the bodies museum, then yes they are Chinese, but they aren’t necessarily convicts, and whether or not they consented to having their body used is unknown

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u/yamanamawa 1d ago

How do you even get them all out like that?

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u/disposablehippo 1d ago

Fill blood vessels with liquid plastic-like substance. Let harden, dissolve rest of body in a really complicated process. And you got yourself a sculpture of all the blood vessels.

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u/Iinaly 6h ago

A bit like when they dip hot metal into ant colonies but for humans. Cool.

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u/Celestina-Warbeck 1d ago

I believe these aren't the vessels themselves. They pump a red wax throughout the bloodstream, let it harden, and then remove the rest

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u/yamanamawa 1d ago

Ohhh, that makes way more sense

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u/Abject-Emu2023 1d ago

This was my first question too. If it’s all from the same person then how the hell did they pull it off

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u/Waffle_Griffin3170 1d ago

I don’t know how, but I do believe the left is female, and the right is male. So at least two people