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[–] [email protected] 259 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 73 points 3 weeks 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] 60 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 weeks ago

It always looks so sad...

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 weeks ago

nooo do not skissor teh crub

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Caaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrllll!!

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[–] [email protected] 137 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago

Moooooom, NCD is leaking again!

[–] Lenny 129 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago

Missed opportunity

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

That's step f.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

Now you’ve called it

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Why does it look like a foreskin?

[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The foreskin is the heart of the penis

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Unless you’re very talented, that somebody else’s cock stuck up your back

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

It’s dicks all the way down

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Who knew the heart is a penis? Blessed be

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Cause it is a tube. All Floppy Tubus do.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 weeks ago

Callback to our primordial tube-hearted fish origin

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 weeks ago

Author of this resarch: my ex girlfriend

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago

That's not the shape of my heart 🎶

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks, I hate it

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Look up embryological development of the heart to see why

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I just realized I’m stupid, thank you

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

welcome to the club bro

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

It starts out as a tube and folds into its final shape, but I'm suprised it can be reversed, holy crap...

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