I think this warrants its own thread.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-12/dead-bodies-move-while-decomposing-significant-find-for-police/11492330

buffy said:

I think this warrants its own thread.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-12/dead-bodies-move-while-decomposing-significant-find-for-police/11492330

Yes it certainly does.

That’s interesting, isn’t it… my first thoughts were insect activity crating the movement, but they did touch in that. I wonder if this applies in the northern hemisphere body farms and, if not, why not? Then you would think it has something to do with our soil or unique bio activity.

I also wonder what would happen if you put the body of a northern hemisphere resident into a Southern Hemisphere body farm…. perhaps regional dietary habits and subsequent gut flora also make a difference.

Arts said:

That’s interesting, isn’t it… my first thoughts were insect activity crating the movement, but they did touch in that. I wonder if this applies in the northern hemisphere body farms and, if not, why not? Then you would think it has something to do with our soil or unique bio activity.

I also wonder what would happen if you put the body of a northern hemisphere resident into a Southern Hemisphere body farm…. perhaps regional dietary habits and subsequent gut flora also make a difference.

So arms move from alongside the body to out to the side?

Rotation will do that.

Presumably Northern Hemisphere bodies rotate in the opposite direction.

But seriously:

Are there cases where this effect might change conclusions about cause of death etc?

• Are there cases where this effect might change conclusions about cause of death etc?

What it means is that a mischievous person, or persons, live next door to this one particular body farm…

The Rev Dodgson said:

Arts said:

That’s interesting, isn’t it… my first thoughts were insect activity crating the movement, but they did touch in that. I wonder if this applies in the northern hemisphere body farms and, if not, why not? Then you would think it has something to do with our soil or unique bio activity.

I also wonder what would happen if you put the body of a northern hemisphere resident into a Southern Hemisphere body farm…. perhaps regional dietary habits and subsequent gut flora also make a difference.

So arms move from alongside the body to out to the side?

Rotation will do that.

Presumably Northern Hemisphere bodies rotate in the opposite direction.

But seriously:

Are there cases where this effect might change conclusions about cause of death etc?

Of course! The coriolis forces!

I suspect that this information would be important to assumptions on body positioning, crime scene staging options and possible later, post morgen, interference.

Arts said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Arts said:

That’s interesting, isn’t it… my first thoughts were insect activity crating the movement, but they did touch in that. I wonder if this applies in the northern hemisphere body farms and, if not, why not? Then you would think it has something to do with our soil or unique bio activity.

I also wonder what would happen if you put the body of a northern hemisphere resident into a Southern Hemisphere body farm…. perhaps regional dietary habits and subsequent gut flora also make a difference.

So arms move from alongside the body to out to the side?

Rotation will do that.

Presumably Northern Hemisphere bodies rotate in the opposite direction.

But seriously:

Are there cases where this effect might change conclusions about cause of death etc?

Of course! The coriolis forces!

I suspect that this information would be important to assumptions on body positioning, crime scene staging options and possible later, post morgen, interference.

• Mortem.

furious said:

• Are there cases where this effect might change conclusions about cause of death etc?

What it means is that a mischievous person, or persons, live next door to this one particular body farm…

A ghostly mischievous person, who lives off grid.

I’m seeing in this thread: “Arts body farm”.
I know she’s a good person & stuff, but it somehow still makes me nervous.

Spiny Norman said:

I’m seeing in this thread: “Arts body farm”.
I know she’s a good person & stuff, but it somehow still makes me nervous.

Body Farm sounds like a good movie for Quentin Tarantino.

buffy said:

I think this warrants its own thread.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-12/dead-bodies-move-while-decomposing-significant-find-for-police/11492330

good read that, someone’s obviously watched those time-lapse images fast-forward, made a movie

done of me, you’d probably discern I was still swinging the ax, while looking sideways at the endotherm observers

transition said:

buffy said:

I think this warrants its own thread.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-12/dead-bodies-move-while-decomposing-significant-find-for-police/11492330

good read that, someone’s obviously watched those time-lapse images fast-forward, made a movie

done of me, you’d probably discern I was still swinging the ax, while looking sideways at the endotherm observers

A good reason for donating your body to science.

Did you note how fast the t shirt decayed? If that had polyester in it, it shows how fast plastics degrade and vanish in the wild. Putting the t shirt on the dead pig made it last longer. Very peculiar.

Plastics don’t vanish. The particles simply get smaller.

roughbarked said:

Plastics don’t vanish. The particles simply get smaller.

Nope.

mollwollfumble said:

transition said:

buffy said:

I think this warrants its own thread.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-12/dead-bodies-move-while-decomposing-significant-find-for-police/11492330

good read that, someone’s obviously watched those time-lapse images fast-forward, made a movie

done of me, you’d probably discern I was still swinging the ax, while looking sideways at the endotherm observers

A good reason for donating your body to science.

Did you note how fast the t shirt decayed? If that had polyester in it, it shows how fast plastics degrade and vanish in the wild. Putting the t shirt on the dead pig made it last longer. Very peculiar.

I mean, she literally said they were cotton shirts.