Facial Reconstruction: Bullshit or not???
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Facial Reconstruction: Bullshit or not???
Seems cool. Went to a whole ride thing in York, they had some cutesy pseudo antique name to gull the turistas, Jorik or some such crap. Sorta compelling seeing those supposed dead people alive again. Frankly, I think that they got store dummies and simply said that they were "carefully constructed scientific re-imaginings of our ancestors". At least that's what I would have done. Nods as good as a wink, right?
But it seems like the simplest thing in the world to confirm the accuracy of such reconstructions yet I have never seen a validation of the process which makes my BS detector tingle, and not in a good way.
Do this
1. Photograph some hapless fucker
2. Kill him*
3. Render the skin and icky bits off the skull
4. Give skull to a "Reconstructionist" (n.b. Sounds racist)
5. Get the resuts
6. Compare.
7. if crappy goto #1 with Reconstructionist and repeat process.
Anybody ever see a validation?
* n.b. IMPORTANT Do not NOT shoot in head!!!
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Re: Facial Reconstruction: Bullshit or not???
Or just use donor bodies who have already died to do testing
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Re: Facial Reconstruction: Bullshit or not???
I am suggesting donor bodies. It's the timing of the dead thing that we are negotiating is all.
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I bet if time travel was possible and we could somehow go back and see what the dinosaurs actually looked like, we might find out that they don't really look like what you see in Jurassic Park.
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Re: Facial Reconstruction: Bullshit or not???
Well, that and they just picked names that looked cool to go with other types of dinosaur. For instance, the real velociraptor:Anaxagoras wrote: ↑Mon Sep 07, 2020 12:05 pm I bet if time travel was possible and we could somehow go back and see what the dinosaurs actually looked like, we might find out that they don't really look like what you see in Jurassic Park.
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Re: Facial Reconstruction: Bullshit or not???
Reconstructions are essentially models, and models are only as good as the data upon which they are formed.
– J.D.
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Re: Facial Reconstruction: Bullshit or not???
Neanderthals by Tom Björklund:
https://i.imgur.com/2bep5ZG.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/VTxx8ii.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/vFGmUoG.jpg
Different interpretations on his Twitter account: https://twitter.com/tombjorklundart?lang=en :mrgreen:
https://i.imgur.com/2bep5ZG.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/VTxx8ii.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/vFGmUoG.jpg
Different interpretations on his Twitter account: https://twitter.com/tombjorklundart?lang=en :mrgreen:
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Re: Facial Reconstruction: Bullshit or not???
If a hippo was an extinct animal and reconstruction was done from skull
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Re: Facial Reconstruction: Bullshit or not???
Naa Abdul "knew" her he ain't as queer as he makes out.
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Re: Facial Reconstruction: Bullshit or not???
Neanderthals created the first cave paintings, and they were not white, like the reconstructions always show.