Posted on 08/02/2011 6:45:00 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Edited on 08/02/2011 6:52:22 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
As workers in the space industry look for ways to turn their talents into Earthbound jobs, one group has gone from mapping Mars to re-creating faces of the dearly departed.
They've formed a company called LookLikes that is creating three-dimensional images of the deceased to be placed on grave markers. The images cost about $1,000, and the scanning devices the funeral homes will use to help make them are expected to be available for leasing starting in October.
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
The major problem is that It is not just NASA but the whole of the US space industry that is in trouble. It is laying off men and women by the thousand; their skills and experience will be lost forever. Reconstituting the ability to build complex and reliable space systems without these people will be an even more expensive and time consuming process.
Meanwhile, this strategically vital industry will see its overseas competitors, such as China, grow and develop. America's edge in space is endangered, and if it disappears, a large proportion of America's global power will disappear along with it. ..............."
Neat ... but creepy, too.
They need that here at Arlington.
That would be so weird especially if they took the digital impression from the “remains.”
A carved line drawing might be more discreet. A computer controlled laser could be used for the carving.
There’s a lot of money to be made in the death business.
America is in the crapper, and Obama’s pulled the chain.
YIKES!
I wonder if they got the idea from “Serenity”.
oh, I was hoping this would be technology to recover the engraving from a slate headstone where the top layers had flaked off. I figure there would be faint impressions on the deeper layers that could be “seen” with the latest imaging tech.
They already make headstones with laser-etched portraits or other illustrations. A 3-D image of the dead person is pretty icky, imo.
During the late middle ages, there was a fashion for tombs that had a resting image of the deceased as he looked in life on the top level, and then a lower level with a carving of how he would look decomposed. A few examples are still extant.
Thanatological interest ping!
I would really have to fight the urge to draw nipples on those “back boobs”.
Now that I think about it, I’ve never SEEN “back boobs” before.
Thanks... I think.
If you are that fat, cover it up! I do not get fat people and their need to show skin.
I can’t tell if she’s coming or going...
“I can’t tell if she’s coming or going...”
If she’s coming, she’ll make sounds like a chipmunk and...uh, wait. Maybe that isn’t what you meant...
either that or is she bending over ,,, one suck puppy to be save pictures of that ,,,
That second picture reminded me of my late friend Jerry, who always claimed his sister had one breast in the middle of her back.
“Not much to look at, but real fun to dance with.”
Heck, that gal has two !
That would be macabre to behold — as I take it, a portrayal of a lying skeleton.
Three dimensional tributes would have another issue — it would be easy for the elements and vandals to knock off features, defacing the sculpture long before the headstone itself would otherwise have become unpresentable.
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