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Bodies Exhibit
So, I went to the bodies exhibit in New York City. It took our school bus SO LONG to get there! >_< Why can't we just take the train in, so we don't have to get stuck in New York City traffic? But anyways the exhibit itself was really cool, even if we were there for less than an hour. T-T I wish we could've stayed longer.
The coolest section was on the circulatory system.Basically what they did was insert silicon (and other stuff) into the blood vessels of the cadaver, and once it hardened, allow acid to corrode the organic material leaving only the silicon cast. So what you get is a perfect mold of all the arteries and veins. It's really cool! There are so many! And when they start getting small, the cast starts to look fuzzy. O_O
The fetal gallery was interesting too, although its sorta sad when you remember that something must have happened to the poor woman so that she died while she was still pregnant. T-T Still though, it was really interesting to see the fetus and embryo in all the developing stages. It's so small! They had molds of the placenta and amniotic sack too.
In general, we got to see a lot skeletons, muscles, and organs. For some reason, they seemed to use more male cadavers then female. I don't know why. Maybe men donate their bodies to science more often then women do? Although you know the bodies are real, they look sorta fake because of the plastic and silicon used to preserve them. So the surfaces of the organs look sorta shiny. XD Think of all the work that was put into cutting all these out so perfectly! O_o It must've took them months, years even, to do! I really wanted to buy an overpriced tourist souvenir from the museum gift shop *laughs XD*, but ended up leaving before that.
In short, I had a blast. It was really interesting to me, and I wish I could have stayed longer. My friends, I could tell, enjoyed it too. I'm really happy.
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