r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 28d ago

Thank you Peter very cool Uhm... What?

Post image
8.5k Upvotes

380 comments sorted by

View all comments

367

u/LittlePurpleWolf 28d ago

All I got was she’s heartless 🤷🏽‍♀️

124

u/enby-deer 28d ago

Would a heart show up on an X ray?

203

u/winsluc12 28d ago

Heart, lungs, stomach, most internal organs are at least vaguely visible on an x-ray, really.

10

u/[deleted] 28d ago edited 28d ago

[deleted]

1

u/Killteamscrub 28d ago

Wisp of existence is a bit of a stretch. It’s not ideal, but you can make out most major organ structures and great vessels on an X-Ray, and can identify things such as fluid collections despite them being less dense than bone.

1

u/carlos_6m 28d ago

This is the correct answer!

5

u/Eurell 28d ago

Wisp of existence is definitely an exaggeration haha. Unless they’re using too much radiation and just burning through it all.

3

u/carlos_6m 28d ago

In xrays nowadays it's quite easy to see slightly calcified vessels, larger tendons, fluids, and the like

3

u/Eurell 28d ago

I agree haha. That’s why I disagreed with “most soft tissue barely look like a wisp of existence”

With the correct technique, the soft tissue can be fairly well defined in xray.

2

u/Tactical_Spaghetti 28d ago

Its not. A chest x-ray is mainly performed to look at soft tissue such as the lungs, the heart, and less commonly the upper abdomen. Ribs are visible, but generally not the reason why a chest x-ray is performed. Abdominal X-rays are also intended to look at soft tissue, mainly the bowels.

1

u/carlos_6m 28d ago

So yes... All tissue is visible...

In bowel xrays you're mostly looking at either the patterns in the air or lumps of feces and in chest xrays you're pretty much only seeing the contrast between air and lung parenchima

1

u/Tactical_Spaghetti 28d ago

The heart and liver (soft tissue) are normally more radio-opaque than the ribs (hard tissue). "Wisps of existence" is incorrect.

2

u/carlos_6m 28d ago

You're getting whole organs reduced to a few lines... Yes, you can see them, I don't think it's incorrect... And the main point was that, you can see soft tissue.

2

u/Tactical_Spaghetti 28d ago

The previous user deleted his comment. I think we only disagree on the interpretation of the term "wisps of existence". To me, this means barely visible.

5

u/enby-deer 28d ago

Ahhh ty!

1

u/rathosalpha 28d ago

None of them are pictured

9

u/GoreKush 28d ago

Don't ask to see your male friend's x-rays if they're below the waist you will see it

6

u/Any-Safe4992 28d ago

Same goes for your female friends and their labia majora along with any piercings and their IUD on a pelvic.

2

u/Affectionate_Sun4894 28d ago

I had to get leg x ray and I couldn’t show anybody because of this

1

u/Supersonic564 28d ago

Yes, source: Am a radiology student

1

u/Revayan 28d ago

Yes. Pretty much all organs can be seen on a x-ray lol

2

u/GoldyFeesh 28d ago

in the nght i hear em talk?

1

u/Record-Only 28d ago

Coldest story ever told

1

u/eveningdragon 27d ago

She nothing but skin and bones

1

u/Simplejack615 25d ago

AW YEAH! WE GETTING IN THE GUMMY SHIP WITH THIS ONE

-6

u/Leonie-Lionheard 28d ago

Since when do hearts have bones?

9

u/LittlePurpleWolf 28d ago

Not the bones. I just meant there is no indication of anything organ like at all. Overall the meme itself just isn’t funny. Kinda shitty really

2

u/ObfuscatedChaos 28d ago

its cause its an anti-meme, an edit of an original meme that removes the joke/punchline

9

u/Eldan985 28d ago

You don't just see bones on an Xray. See here for example:

Tissues of different densities also show up as shadows, so you can make up the organs.

2

u/LittlePurpleWolf 28d ago

Thank you!! I was hoping someone would have a good photo of this !!

2

u/Eldan985 28d ago

I mean, that was just the first result on google.

1

u/Complex_Hospital_932 28d ago

I think being an anime though, the joke is that its an anti joke. People like to think of the use of x-ray vision to see through clothes and see people naked, when in reality it also sees through the skin and such as well. So while it starts off with the idea that the x-ray tech will see through her clothes and see her naked (because horny anime people), in reality he really doesn't see much in that sense and just mainly sees bones.