• @Technus@lemmy.zip
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    11 months ago

    What about people who have had limbs amputated?

    Do teeth count as part of the skeleton? If you’ve lost teeth do you only have 99% of a skeleton left?

    According to this, bones don’t start forming until the sixth or seventh week of gestation, so does the fetus technically not have a skeleton before then?

    So many questions

    • @jettrscga@lemmy.world
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      2411 months ago

      For the sake of this exercise we’ll consider skeletons rounded to whole integers. And air resistance may be ignored.

      • @rmuk@feddit.uk
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        11 months ago

        Just goes to show how your prejudices affect your judgement without you realising. I just assumed everyone’s skeleton was a perfect sphere one unit in diameter and mass, at rest, on a perfectly level, frictionless, infinite plane and in a vacuum. Like mine.

      • @BluesF@feddit.uk
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        111 months ago

        Well then the average is just 1 isn’t it. It doesn’t make any sense to integer-ise your inputs but leave your output rounded.

    • @Sanyanov@lemmy.world
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      I’d argue you still have one skeleton if you lose limbs or teeth.

      Amount of skeletons is an integer representing the anount of bone structures holding and protecting human body (or whatever’s left of it).

      The real question is, how much of which parts of skeleton can we lose with it still being skeleton instead of a set of bones?

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      411 months ago

      Everyone else is failing to count the number of babies (140 million per year) nearly all of whom have 100% complete skeletons and set that against the number of amputations of perhaps a few percentage points across a much smaller number of people annually (“more than 1 million annually”).

    • Instigate
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      I’d argue teeth aren’t skeleton because they’re not made of the same substance as bone - the outside is enamel and dentin whereas bones are collagen, protein and minerals (mostly calcium). Kinda like how hair and nails don’t count because they’re made of keratin.

    • @Tavarin@lemmy.ca
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      111 months ago

      so does the fetus technically not have a skeleton before then?

      The cartilaginous pre-bones would still be a skeleton. Sharks have skeletons, but don’t have any bones for example.

        • @grayman@lemmy.world
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          211 months ago

          I mentioned it because I say “The average person has less than 1 testicle.”… Also The average person has less than 2 legs… 2 arms… 2 breasts… etc. One of my favorite eye rolling stupid joke.

          • @Rednax@lemmy.world
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            I have a ton of legs. Waayyy more than 2.

            What can I say? They were cheap, and I love chicken.

      • @misophist@lemmy.world
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        There are more women than men

        [CITATION NEEDED]

        Also, 1 is correct if we consider significant figures. It may be slightly less, but rounded to the nearest whole number is most certainly 1.

  • hobbicus
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    2511 months ago

    this is bigoted propaganda against bonelessness

    • enkers
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      Wouldn’t it also be greater than 1 for the same reason as OP? I think there are probably more babies in mothers than people missing testes.

        • enkers
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          Not their own, no, but the average number of testicles in a mother’s body is greater than 0.

        • MustrumR
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          But they have the testicles of their soon to be born sons.

          I would say whether it’s greater than 1 or lesser than 1 is inconclusive without accurate data .

          You would need to find out whether amount of men with removed testicles is greater than amount of women pregnant with a boy (after the average week when testicles appear). Also men to women ratio in global population needs to be accounted for.

  • uphillbothways
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    Aren’t babies cartilaginous at birth? Guess it’s still a skeleton as it is a structural frame, even if it’s not made out of bones yet.

  • @JustUseMint@lemmy.world
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    1211 months ago

    It’s scary enough that we have one skeleton inside and now I have to worry about the potential for two of them?! How am I supposed to sleep

  • ryan213
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    1211 months ago

    Chances of getting Boneitis increases with every birth.

  • @stoy@lemmy.zip
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    511 months ago

    That is clearly a ball of some sort, possible fairly heavy as she uses two hands to hold it in place.