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Shape of the Heart (mander.xyz)

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[-] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 260 points 3 months ago

This kills the person.

[-] proti@lemmy.world 73 points 3 months ago

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

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 61 points 3 months ago

[-] Sat@lemmynsfw.com 43 points 3 months ago

It always looks so sad...

[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 41 points 3 months ago

nooo do not skissor teh crub

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[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 36 points 3 months ago

Caaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrllll!!

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[-] TitularyDespotOfOstrich@lemmy.world 139 points 3 months ago

[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz 21 points 3 months ago

Moooooom, NCD is leaking again!

[-] Lenny@lemmy.zip 129 points 3 months ago

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

[-] JoShmoe@ani.social 26 points 3 months ago

Missed opportunity

[-] dance_ninja@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

That's step f.

[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Now you’ve called it

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[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 51 points 3 months ago

Why does it look like a foreskin?

[-] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 59 points 3 months ago

The foreskin is the heart of the penis

[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

[-] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

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

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

It’s dicks all the way down

[-] Whorehoarder@lemmynsfw.com 13 points 3 months ago

Who knew the heart is a penis? Blessed be

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[-] Gladaed@feddit.org 8 points 3 months ago

Cause it is a tube. All Floppy Tubus do.

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[-] ruk_n_rul 46 points 3 months ago

Callback to our primordial tube-hearted fish origin

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 41 points 3 months ago

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

[-] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 34 points 3 months ago

Author of this resarch: my ex girlfriend

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago

Naaaaah let's not

[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 months ago

Origami ^origami^ ^ᵒʳⁱᵍᵃᵐⁱ^

[-] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 25 points 3 months ago

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

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago

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

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] Michal@programming.dev 22 points 3 months ago

That's not the shape of my heart 🎶

[-] CCF_100@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 months ago

Thanks, I hate it

[-] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

Look up embryological development of the heart to see why

[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz 27 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[-] Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 months ago

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

[-] mikey@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 months ago

I just realized I’m stupid, thank you

[-] farngis_mcgiles@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago

welcome to the club bro

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[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

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

[-] kemsat@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

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

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[-] vithigar@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 months ago

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?

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

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

[-] repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Considering this picture of a whole heart you are probably correct

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[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

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

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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🎵

[-] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] infinite_ass@leminal.space 10 points 3 months ago

To save space

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 16 points 3 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.