sheer potentiality

In my biology class (which is the obligatory basic biology class for Honors students not majoring in any of the life sciences), we were taking apart a rotting deer carcass to collect the insects that were cleaning it out. (Apparently this is some sort of forensic technique.) All we had left was basically the skeleton, but we had to break it apart to get all the bugs. I proposed that in homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey, we pick up one of the leg bones and use it to break apart the rest of the skeleton. Then I ended up on skeleton-breaking duty.

We eventually resorted to using a weighted tape dispenser (made of metal) to bash apart the spine. Anyway, here’s a couple pictures of my homage to Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece:

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