Click on the thumbnail photo of the gymnast on beam for a more educatioinal look.
On the recommendation of sport scientist Jenni McNeal, we visited the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul for the BODY WORLDS exhibition.
We saw 200 authentic human specimens, including entire bodies, preserved through the process of Plastination, a technique that replaces bodily fluids and fat with plastic.
The purported goal of the exhibit is to “educate the public about the inner workings of the human bodyâ€. But it is ghoulish fascination which has been drawing hundreds of thousands of visitors to this and 2 other touring shows.
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I wonder if the person who donated their body for that had been a gymnast in life. I wonder how hard it would be to put someone in that pose if they did not have a lot of flexiblility, I suppose it could be easier.
Flexibility is muscles contracting, when you die your muscles stop functioning therefor making it possible to move the body in every possible way before it stiffens up.
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