• mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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        8 days ago

        sadly true

        a guy I know shared an anecdote recently of a customer yelling at them because military vehicles were out of commission due to them not having the part in stock. there is no other supplier for this part, and they are generally made to order with a lead time of months.

        in that case, the company makes parts used in all sorts of machines all over the world, and the engineers aren’t the ones selling the parts to militaries killing children. the specific part, however, was for a military vehicle. and somewhere in that chain, an engineer said yeah this is fine. multiple of them. along with many other people who thought it was fine to make and sell this product. and even though the guy I know held the personal opinion that it’s a good thing those vehicles were out of commission and unable to help kill children, he didn’t shut down the sale.

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      Haha this is me at work while I’m generating marketing slop to sell shit to people who don’t want it

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    These might weigh 8kg each, they are not empty like a balloon, they are full of the silicone gel. Any doctor should refuse to put these on anyone.

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    The image doesn’t correspond to the text.

    Using the advanced method of guesstimating, let’s assume the radius of each of the silicone spheres to be at least 20 cm. Applying V=(4/3) x pi r^3 we get a volume of 33510 cc.

    You’d need a radius of 10 cm to get down to 4000 cc. This corresponds to 20 cm diameter, or rather, the length of a human hand

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I went straight to will 2 x 2 liters fit in each one… Sounds about right. Maybe a bit off. 1cc=1ml. 4000-> 4 liters

      And I only think of liters in drinks and engines, and putting a 4.0L v6 on her chest from a Jeep Cherokee might be a bit bigger

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        Well when it comes to engine displacement, you’re just talking about cylinder crosscut area times piston movement (so not even the entirety of the cylinder volume, just how much air the pistons displace). That 4.0 inline 6 is a big ol’ lump, but are the cylinders really that big if you think about it? Much of it is the crankcase, head, the block around the cylinders themselves, etc.

        4 liters is just a bit more than a gallon

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    FWIW, we did make polypropelene (“silly-string”) implants illegal. They were pulled off the market by the FDA. So there’s kind of an upper-limit established.

    (NSFW link) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polypropylene_breast_implant

    Polypropylene implants absorb water very slowly, about <0.01% in 24 hours.[2] The polypropylene, which is yarn-like, causes irritation to the implant pocket which causes the production of serum which fills the implant pocket on a continual basis.[citation needed] This causes continuous expansion of the breast after surgery. Growth can only be alleviated by removal of serum by syringe. Problems can also arise if the breasts enlarge at different rates. This can be corrected by removal of serum or introduction of sterile saline. Continual breast growth will eventually result in “extreme, almost cartoonish breast sizes.”[3]

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    I don’t know much about implants or what they use exactly, but assuming they’re liquid silicon with a density of 2.57g/cm3, then 4000cc would weigh 10,280g (22.67lbs). If those are EACH, then you’re looking at nearly 50 pounds strapped to your chest with minimal support. Your poor back.

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      Volume of a sphere is 4/3 π r^3 .

      Solving for r where the volume is 4000 cm^3 makes for a 9.8 cm radius, or a 19.6 cm (7.7 inch) diameter. Comparable to a child size 3 soccer ball.

      Obviously taking a soft sphere and letting it flatten on a surface against its own weight makes for a non-spherical shape, but this picture looks way bigger than a kid’s soccer ball.

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    Most companies will refrain from producing something, but as long as there is 1 surgeon who does not feel the moral obligation to say no, they will make implants this big. Simple supply and demand. Perhaps aside from the surgeons, we should also question the implant companies if what they’re doing is morally right.