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[–] [email protected] 258 points 2 months ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think taking the heart out is the part that kills them, unless perhaps you reverse origami it while it's still attached

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago

It always looks so sad...

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago

nooo do not skissor teh crub

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Caaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrllll!!

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[–] [email protected] 138 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

Moooooom, NCD is leaking again!

[–] [email protected] 129 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Thought it was going to turn into Saddam there for a second.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

Missed opportunity

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Now you’ve called it

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

That's step f.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Maybe it's a part of Saddam? Heart, foreskin, who knows.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Why does it look like a foreskin?

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 months ago

The foreskin is the heart of the penis

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

It’s dicks all the way down

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Who knew the heart is a penis? Blessed be

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Cause it is a tube. All Floppy Tubus do.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago

Callback to our primordial tube-hearted fish origin

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago

Make sure to unfold and wring out your heart after each breakup, to keep the creases from setting in too much.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago

Author of this resarch: my ex girlfriend

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Origami ^origami^ ^ᵒʳⁱᵍᵃᵐⁱ^

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I wonder if a heart could still beat/function when it's unrolled in this way 🤔

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

No. It needs to squeeze against itself to move blood to and from chambers.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I was wondering something similar. Maybe this is an innovative approach to heart surgery.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

Yes, in the way that Mengele was innovative in the medical field.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

... I see I'm not the only person with intrusive thoughts.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

That's not the shape of my heart 🎶

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

Thanks, I hate it

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Look up embryological development of the heart to see why

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

That's even better. Two blood vessels that fuse and twist.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why did they name the left and right atrium backwards? That seems unnecessarily confusing.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It's only backwards because you're looking at it from the outside from the front. When it's in you, the left is on your left.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I just realized I’m stupid, thank you

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

welcome to the club bro

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[–] vithigar 14 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Interesting, but this isn't an entire heart, is it? Only half? Or isn't a human heart? Human hearts have separate left and right pairs of chambers which pump oxygenated and de-oxygenated blood separately. Or am I mistaken?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Isn't that why there are 2 loops at the bottom? One for the left and one for the right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I just assumed that they dissected through the heart to unfold it. In humans the heart is ‘compact’ and there’s no real way to unfold it without cutting through cardiac muscle but, the heart embryologically develops from a tube that folds over itself so you can theoretically ‘unfold’ it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

human heart anatomical drawing

Considering this picture of a whole heart you are probably correct

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I just learned about this last night. Are we a hive mind?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

For a total eclipse of the heart you would need a moon shaped like a big hambone.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

🎵 And no one's gonna bend or break me 🎵

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That's Faith of the Heart.

Shape of my Heart is a different, but equally bangin', song.

🎵I know that diamonds mean money for this art, but that's not the shape of my heart🎵

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not that I want to unroll it, but why did it "roll" up in the first place? It seems so tightly wound compared to, like, the intestines or something. Just curious.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

And maybe to share muscle power between different phases of the stroke. Two muscles that evolved to pump different chambers could both work on the same chamber when they’re folded over one another. Allow them to transfer force between the layers.

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