• 2ugly2live
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    12 hours 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        130 minutes 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.

  • @LovableSidekick
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    65 hours ago

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

  • @assassinatedbyCIA
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    1416 hours ago

    Look up embryological development of the heart to see why

  • @[email protected]
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    1119 hours 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?

    • @assassinatedbyCIA
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      I just assumed that they dissected through the heart to unfold it. In humans the heart is ‘compact’ and there’s no real way to unfold it without cutting through cardiac muscle but, the heart embryologically develops from a tube that folds over itself so you can theoretically ‘unfold’ it.

    • @repungnant_canary
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      614 hours ago

      human heart anatomical drawing

      Considering this picture of a whole heart you are probably correct

    • rockerface 🇺🇦
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      715 hours ago

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

  • @Agent641
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    371 day ago

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

  • @kemsat
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    1421 hours ago

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

  • Kalcifer
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    231 day ago

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

    • @NatakuNox
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      1421 hours ago

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

      • Kalcifer
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        218 hours ago

        Could it not just sorta flex the tube? Like couldn’t one part of the tube pull on or press off of the next?

        • @NatakuNox
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          25 hours ago

          No. This diagram doesn’t show how they got the heart to unravel like that. There’s a layer or wrapping around the heart and internal connective tissues that holds the heart in its traditional state. I’d imagine if the got the muscles of a unrolled heart to contract it would just fold or bind at points. But definitely wouldn’t pump anything.

        • @[email protected]
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          618 hours ago

          As someone who flexes the tube very often, I would guess that the heart would start pumping unwanted fluids

    • @toynbee
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      91 day ago

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

      • @Death_Equity
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        231 day ago

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

      • FuglyDuck
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        923 hours ago

        … I see I’m not the only person with intrusive thoughts.

  • @9point6
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    221 day ago

    Naaaaah let’s not