4/6: Virtual fossil

Undertoad · 04-06-2001, 01:55 PM

Brit researchers are now able to recreate images of animals that lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, animals they couldn't have studied otherwise. Buried in rock certain ways, they're normally unrecoverable as fossils. But they're getting images in MRI fashion -- shaving rocks, taking the shavings where the animal is fossilized, and creating the 3D images by putting the shavings back together.

richlevy · 04-06-2001, 03:59 PM

Nuts. I thought this thread was about Strom Thurmond.

Chewbaccus · 04-06-2001, 07:35 PM

I heard of something like this. Some Brits did the same thing with a skull from the time of Christ to see what the average person (and thusly, possibly Christ himself) looked like.

There's probably a "But what if..." about this, but I just got off work, so I leave it for someone else.

Mike

04-06-2001, 03:59 PM	#2
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	Nuts. I thought this thread was about Strom Thurmond. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

04-06-2001, 07:35 PM	#3
Chewbaccus Freethinker/booter Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 523	I heard of something like this. Some Brits did the same thing with a skull from the time of Christ to see what the average person (and thusly, possibly Christ himself) looked like. There's probably a "But what if..." about this, but I just got off work, so I leave it for someone else. Mike __________________ Like the wise man said: Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.

04-06-2001, 01:55 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Brit researchers are now able to recreate images of animals that lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, animals they couldn't have studied otherwise. Buried in rock certain ways, they're normally unrecoverable as fossils. But they're getting images in MRI fashion -- shaving rocks, taking the shavings where the animal is fossilized, and creating the 3D images by putting the shavings back together.

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