What the heck is this image?
Ever see an image that your brain just can't parse into meaningful content, yet you suspect from context it's supposed to be something obvious?
I saw this image at the bottom of an MSN Messenger window this morning. (Evil, I know, but it's the only way to talk to my sister who uses MSN, and has her phone line tied up all of the time on the internet.)
I kept looking at it, but can't make any sense of it.
http://www.shetline.com/img/whatisit.gif
I figure if I get enough eyes looking at this, it's going to be obviously recognizable to someone.
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# 1 Re: What the heck is this image?
Looks like a baby in utero.
# 2 Re: What the heck is this image?
Eraserhead...that's what first came into mind. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
# 3 Re: What the heck is this image?
[quote]Originally posted by groverat:
<strong>Looks like a baby in utero.</strong><hr></blockquote>
that's what it is. i zoom in on it in photoshop
# 4 Re: What the heck is this image?
Living Human in Fetal form
JRC at 2007-11-17 14:51:39 >

# 5 Re: What the heck is this image?
Oh, yeah! I zoomed in on it too, but it didn't help. I had somebody else look at the picture first too, just to verify that another person would be confused, and it wasn't just me.
I feel better now. :)
# 6 Re: What the heck is this image?
Doesn't think belong in the late term abortion thread?
;)
murbot at 2007-11-17 14:53:47 >

# 7 Re: What the heck is this image?
just a fetus...lots of them around...
coming soon to a uterus near you...
g
# 8 Re: What the heck is this image?
The problem with that image is that the color is not real. If it were a medical image it would be B&W. The flesh tone and the red cord were painted in some how.
Scott at 2007-11-17 14:55:43 >

# 9 Re: What the heck is this image?
[quote]Originally posted by shetline:
<strong>Ever see an image that your brain just can't parse into meaningful content, yet you suspect from context it's supposed to be something obvious?
I kept looking at it, but can't make any sense of it.
</strong><hr></blockquote>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38289000/jpg/_38289931_jackson150.jpg
# 10 Re: What the heck is this image?
It looks like a fish with a red mask eating someones lower lip.
# 11 Re: What the heck is this image?
wait, is that the preview of the "360-views of new cars"?
# 12 Re: What the heck is this image?
Groverat got it right. It's part of a photo contest MSNBC is running. My personal favorite is the one with the Indian patrol boats...
Eugene at 2007-11-17 14:59:48 >

# 13 Re: What the heck is this image?
When I zoomed in I could make it out ok. What's funny, though, is how our brains must be conditioned to find human faces in everything we see. Even after recognizing it as a fetus, my eyes would switch back and forth to seeing half a face. Like those vase-face drawings. The fetus's head and back outline the face, the chin cleft is an eye, there's a bit of fuzziness behind the back that looks like an ear, the stomach outlines a nose, the thigh cleft is half a mouth, and the back of the hip is a chin.
Towel at 2007-11-17 15:00:55 >

# 14 Re: What the heck is this image?
[quote]Originally posted by Eugene:
<strong>Groverat got it right. It's part of a photo contest MSNBC is running. My personal favorite is the one with the Indian patrol boats...</strong><hr></blockquote>
... Must have been hard getting that camera in there.