• sroos@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    It also only has one hole, which, if you ask some topologists, is what humans have.

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          1 day ago

          I would post the human floss video. But it seems to be lost media. It was of a guy who got extra strength floss, tied it to one of his teeth, and one end to a pen lid… Swallowed the entire roll. Found the lid days later, and then pulled it back and forth, to floss himself. The video would be +10 years old.

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            1 day ago

            Seems dangerous. There are sections where you wouldn’t want the floss pulled taut, and certainly not the whole thing.

            I wonder if it was just a magic / fx video; at least the “to floss himself” bit.

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              14 hours ago

              I just remembered the name. But searching it up just gives reddit posts with dead links. It was called “full body floss.” All the the youtube links are dead. But I wouldn’t recommend trying to do.

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        4 days ago

        Well, there’s the one obvious one - mouth through to the anus, there may be more openings to that hole, but I don’t believe any of them go all the way through.

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          4 days ago

          That changes the topology though. It does go all the way through a section which prevents it from reshaping into a straw/donut

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            3 days ago

            They go through the same hole as the mouth in the end, though. At least a part of them…

            I think I said in another comment that I’m not an actual expert on this matter. So there may well be more holes in this theory, and person.

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              3 days ago

              They go through the same hole as the mouth in the end, though.

              Yes, but they’re distinct openings, which means we’re not topologically equivalent to a doughnut when you take them into account. Topological equivalence implies that you can transform one object into another without changing the number of openings. Classic example is a doughnut and a coffee mug (the handle of a coffee mug is the opening). A human would be equivalent to a doughnut with two holes poked through the side into the middle.