June 28, 2009: Mermaid

[xoxoxoBruce]

Hey look, a mermaid...
not one of those ugly Sea Cows drunken sailors fell for, or an animated Disney character, but a living, breathing, mermaid.
Would I lie to you, my oldest and dearest friends?


if it didn't involve sex or money, anyway.

Nadya Vessey's legs were amputated below the knee when she was a child due to illness. At one point, reports Stuff, a child asked her what happened to her legs and she told him she was a mermaid. The idea stuck with her, so she wrote to Weta Workshop in Wellington, New Zealand, two years ago asking for a mermaid tail. To her surprise, they said they'd do it.

Weta, is a special effects company. Think Lord of the Rings, King Kong, and Chronicles of Narnia.

Nadya Vessey's prosthetic tail is mostly constructed from wetsuit fabric and plastic molds, and covered in a digitally printed sock.

If you want to eat this IOtD, you'll have to peel it first.

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[zippyt]

its a Dolphen !!!!

[xoxoxoBruce]

SHE's a "Dolphen". :p

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

SHE's a "Dolphen". :p

No, a Sherk.

[TheMercenary]

Eat it? Wouldn't that be like having a peel and eat shrimp and opening it up only to find the meat missing? No thanks.

[SPUCK]

Exactly what "childhood disease" results in leg amputation?

[Frenger]

I wonder how well she can swim in that.

[Rendrago]

Originally Posted by Frenger

I wonder how well she can swim in that.

Here's a video:

http://video.libero.it/app/play?id=d...bd9b1a5fa5c8a8

[monster]

Originally Posted by SPUCK

Exactly what "childhood disease" results in leg amputation?

it doesn't say "childhood disease", solet's go with cancer, infection, menengitis?......


I bet she can swim really well -think about how fast butterfly kick is, and here she doesn't have to work to keep her legs together.

[Trilby]

That's one way of making lemonade! Good for her.

[Mayor of Shekou]

Originally Posted by Brianna

That's one way of making lemonade! Good for her.

I now have an image stuck in my head of her lining up lemons on the edge of the pool and smashing them with her tail...

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by Brianna

That's one way of making lemonade! Good for her.

I was wondering how she would go to the toilet if she was wearing that...

[Coign]

It reminds me of this article I saw some time ago.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...d-man-made-fin

Lunocet users have already hit about eight miles (13 kilometers) per hour, nearly twice as fast as Olympic Gold Medal swimmer Michael Phelps at his speediest.

Using the Lunocet, some swimmers are close to being able to breach completely out of the water, like whales. Ciamillo envisions a new high-speed, free-diving community of swimmers united around "hydrotouring": long-distance swimming expeditions using Lunocets to cover dozens of miles a day, with participants carrying streamlined, waterproof packs containing only a global positioning system (GPS), satellite phone, and enough food and water for a few nights on shore.

http://www.lunocet.com/

And even cooler in my fight to stick to the man over copyright laws and freedom of knowledge is this attitude held by the inventor.

Ciamillo ... notes that he won't be patenting the Lunocet's design. "If you're taking ideas from nature," he says, "how can you then go to the patent office and say these are mine?"

[lumberjim]

its June!

delete this after you fix the title

[Medic63]

Originally Posted by lumberjim

its June!

delete this after you fix the title

"Let's do the Time Warp again!"