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Dead Pigs Used To Investigate Ocean's "Dead Zones"
timothy writes "As places to study what happens to corpses, the Atlantic Ocean is both much larger and much more specialized than the famous 'body farm' in Knoxville, TN. But for all kinds of good reasons, sending human bodies into Davy Jones' locker just to see where they float and how they bloat is unpopular. Pigs don't pay taxes, and more importantly, they don't vote. So Canadian scientists have taken to using them as human-body proxies, to study what happens when creatures of similar size and hairlessness (aka, us) end up 86ed and in the drink."
What a waste.
I was going to suggest a slashdot poll for this but there are only two realistic choices. Which makes more sense?
A) The current "Sink them to the depths of the ocean where they are eaten by sea critters for science"
B) Put them in my secret basement room where I could don a pig-head skin mask and have dry anal sex with their corpses while listening to opera.
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Trolling is a art,
actually..
Don't you feel silly now.
The lead scientist noted that they were "piggybacking" on colleagues' forensics research.
Either THIS is the TP, or this is by datestamp. Moron.
They were going to use dead puppies, until they found out they're not much fun.
This sounds like a much better idea than when they studied the Dead Zone in the 80s using Christopher Walken. Dead bloated pig corpses are more plentiful, not to mention way less creepy.
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Tastes awesome AND is great for fishing, crabbing, shrimping, sea starring, sharking, ...
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Pigs will kill and eat people too you know. Not just feral pigs either.
Damping absorbs vibrations. Dampening is caused by moisture.
That idiot that thought that he got TP actually got FP. Let all of Slashdot know this.
Do you have any idea how many Bacon Double Cheeseburgers you can get out of a single pig and cow? You would throw all that deliciousness away just to get a 40-page article in Forensic Science Quarterly that comes to the final conclusion "They sink"?
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So what happens to all the sailors sent to Davy Jones Locker?
There is something vaguely odd yet consistent about floating and sinking dead pigs into a dead zone. I wonder if they put lipstick on them...
He's a blood spatter expert for Miami PD. He seems really, really interested in what they find. I wonder why?
they are zombie pigs programmed to work in the cold, dark depths?
Damping absorbs vibrations. Dampening is caused by moisture.
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What are the reasons for better understanding corpse decomposition in the oceans?
It sounds like this may be a study to figure out if human corpses end up drifting to a common location (much like that floating garbage patch in the pacific). If so, is this primarily a search and rescue type study? Are they trying to see if the bodies of missing persons can be dug up from the ocean depths? Is there some other reason for doing a study like this?
Don't get me wrong, I am all for knowledge for it's own sake. I would just like to know what the motivations are behind this study.
TFA states:
"If you need to know how long it's been since death, if you're looking at the remains and there are marks on them, you need to find out - how did those marks come about?"
So I suppose that is a partial answer to my question. I am still curious though, if there is any spin off science that could be gathered from this kind of study. Surely there are some marine biologists out there that could use the data gathered here to better understand this particular ecological niche. Any other ideas?
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"UnDead Pigs Used To Investigate Ocean's "Dead Zones""
Sounds like CSI just found their next plotline.
Of course it won't effect the price of bacon.
Neither will it affect the price of bacon.
Pigs are really useful, for example, as a seperator between a beef patty and lettuce. Why not use something that's completely useless, like politicions?
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
The proper website for the (in)famous body farm is: University of Tennessee: Forensic Anthropology Center.
Don't worry, the price of long pork will most certainly fall in the coming years due to increased supply.
I though affect was used mainly to decribe emotional states these days. No?
Damping absorbs vibrations. Dampening is caused by moisture.
Pigs is such ugly slang. Can't we use Coppers, or Fuzz, or The Heat?
Surprisingly, (sarcasm) the summary is misleading. From reading the article, the research is about finding out about marine scavengers in low oxygen ocean environments, and how low of a concentration of oxygen they will tolerate in order to feed.
"So Professor Tunnicliffe and her team set out to find out "how low marine scavengers would go", in terms of oxygen, for a free lunch."
It has nothing to do with dead humans sinking or floating or decomposing. The pigs were a convenient bait that they tethered to the ocean floor in specific areas of specific oxygen concentrations.
They learned that the scavengers would spend days in a 7% oxygen environment, which was previously thought to be uninhabitable, but if the bait was placed in an even lower oxygen area, it was left alone by everything except bacteria.
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...that the most apropos decomposition study model for a human body from Western civilization is the humble yet corpulent swine. Round, fat, just a little hairy. We truly are what we eat.
Do they Yell Swine Flu when they throw them?
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Why not simply use lawyers?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
but they got tired of doing that. Now they are investigating the ocean's coral reefs.
There, fixed it.
Human flesh isn't called "long pig" or "the other other white meat" for nothing.
"affect", used as a noun, refers to emotional states, or how the face looks or something. As a verb, it means "having an effect upon".
"effect" as a noun, refers to a consequence or result. As a verb, it means the same thing as "implement", roughly.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
They used to investigate the dead zones, now they're dead themselves.
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Why bother with the pigs? Just outsource it to China. I bet it's going to be cheaper as well!
If everything else is equal you are correct, but not if enough people are long in long pork, or if more people express a longing for long pork. If you remember the Atkins fad, you will know that pork is not immune to speculative bubbles, especially in the rind sector.
If I have seen further it is by stealing the Intellectual Property of giants.
Oh, come on, man, everyone knows Dexter uses human bodies to dump at sea.
It's dead pigs, for Goodness' sake! How does that not just scream "Jigsaw" to you, or at least that pig farmer Frank Black fought on "Millenium?" :-)
I need to get out more.
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Pardon the off topic post, but when I followed the link to the BBC's website and watched the video of the pigs being used for....er....science, I noticed this: http://imgur.com/bdeKx Rock on BBC!
Increase my killing power, eh?
Lawyers are much less popular than pigs.
Cut that out, or I will ship you to Norilsk in a box.
Human flesh isn't called "long pig" or "the other other white meat" for nothing.
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February 9th, 2009 8:55pm: Slashdot becomes self-aware.
Is "original research" accepted on Slashdot? ;)