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Fetuses Caught Yawning In 4D
Rambo Tribble writes "Reuters reports 4D scans have conclusively shown that fetuses do yawn. Understandable, eh? After all, all they get is cable."
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It is supposed to mean it has height, width, depth and time.
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They're 2D images of 3D objects.
Nope. Ultrasound gives complete depth measurements. So each time step is an (X,Y,Z) data cube (actually (theta,phy,time)->response ), where response is the magnitude of the received sound in the microphone. Therefore each elenment in the video is therefore the tuple (X, Y, Z, T)->some value, i.e. 4 dimensional.
The video shown is just a projection, but ultrasound gives multiple depth readings, not just a single 2D manifold, so the raw data (obviously not the video here) is certainly 4D data.
So yeah, ultrasound does provide full 4D data and the files are immense.
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Take it easy on him at least he's suggesting that some of us may be having sex. I for one am flattered.
The fetus has a tiny Delorian in there with it.
"Won't I run into the Uterus' wall?"
"You're not thinking Fourth Dimensionally."
"Yeah, I have a real problem with that."
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So do dogs. Cats yawn too. I'm not sure about mice.
What's the point of this story, is there some burning question as to what organisms yawn? A yawning controversy I haven't heard of perhaps? Or some prospective line of in inquiry into the science of yawning?
This story seems like a puff piece devoid of any significant detail or content worth posting to Slashdot.