Pink Poogle Toy Forum

i guess if you had a transparent human then they'd be the invisible person. Well I believe we've already made invisible people.

Just take a look at x-men, hollow man and the like

We dont have to dissect critters in the UK =D However, in my old Science class, the teacher had like a dissected rat with all the organs and everything in one of those slide thingies, hanging on the wall. Guess what? I walked in on my first day, looked at the wall, and promptly threw up over the desk. Funny, my science teacher never seemed to like me

Might as well chop the head off.

The problem with pithing is that you lose the ability to dissect the brain, which in and of itself is a useful activity.

Yeah.. But the frog isn't invisible, just has translucent skin, the organs, blood vessels and bones are still readily opaque, so the same effect would be present in humans, too.

And would quite thoroughly kill it, excluding some "Never see the sun" kind of antics.

I know that, I did look at the picture, but seeing as there is a big difference with transparency and being translucent(which is what i would say the frog is) then I guess a live human being that is translucent could probably end the shelf life of some medical text books.
You could then actually see how the lungs, stomach, bladder and all work whilst the person is still alive instead of having to do a biopsy and open up someone with a scalpel.

But seeing as everyone is implying that the frog is transparent, I just decided to make a ploy about it. If the frog were really transparent, then they wouldn't have discovered it then would they?

Well, the point of pithing is to watch the internal organs as they function, not to study the brain--I don't know that much would be "gained" from watching a live brain, as it doesn't show functions the way the other body parts do.
But like I said, I'm not a fan of requiring either one in high schools. It's a pretty darn useless exercise for most of the kids. If they want to study it in optional higher-science classes, well, whatever, but making kids cut up frogs isn't particularly helpful and is probably a huge part of the reason I never want to take a biology class again.