Why hyperrealistic reborn dolls are expensive??
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foreign it's a silicon-based hyper-realistic doll but just like a baby it can move its eyes change facial expressions and even breathe hyper realistic baby doll producers like baby Clon spend months hand making convincing look-alikes dolls like these sell for a minimum of 1700 euros the most expensive models can reach upwards of fifteen thousand every last detail from the texture of the skin to the hair on the doll's head is hand crafted these dolls are often collector's items but they're also used in medical settings like Midwifery training and therapy so what makes these baby dolls so lifelike and why are they so expensive in Catalonia Spain Christina Iglesias and a small team of Artisans at baby clone are making some of the world's most realistic and expensive baby dolls realism Christina Drew on her nearly two decades of experience creating hyper realistic effects for zombie and fantasy movies to found baby clone a decade ago also known as Reborn Dolls these dolls have an eerily lifelike quality that allows the company to sell them for top dollar the basic model for baby clone's most popular line newborns starts at just under 2 000 Euros and adding more features can increase the price significantly is but baby clown doesn't just work on human baby dolls they also sell infant versions of beloved characters like E.T or the navi from Avatar creating these lifelike dolls is a four month long process and it all starts with sculpting the Prototype this prototype will be used to create a mold for the final silicon doll standard models already have molds that are reused but any dolls with customizations need to be designed from the ground up today the baby clown team is sculpting its ET doll when finished it'll sell for 1650 euros like most of their dolls this one is being sculpted out of plasticine clay craftspeople perfect the folds on the skin and even the Skin's texture these details are directly transferred onto the mold so it's imperative that every last square millimeter is hyper detailed that's why this step requires the most skill without extreme attention to realism here the subsequent mold is useless foreign the sculpture is destroyed [Music] that's why it's important Eugenie Works carefully as any mistake in the mold means the sculpture will have to be redone is foreign one of the main reasons for baby clown dolls high price point is the Silicon they're made from its medical grade Platinum silicon which is often used in implants and Prosthetics according to Christina this silicon provides the most durability and realism possible that's why the company is willing to spend 300 Euros on Silicon alone for each baby in fact the cost of materials can reach 450 euros per doll Eugenia uses a special formulation for the Silicon mixture to achieve the most realistic looking skin weight and texture this extreme attention to detail accounts for up to 80 of the value of the dolls baby clown sells [Music] over half of the product's price is attributed to the cost of Labor alone once the injection is complete Eugenie lets the Silicon dry for 24 hours he carefully opens the mold to reveal the doll inside thank you [Music] but the molds don't include all the parts of the doll like the hands or feet those are assembled together here joining the body and limbs of the Dolls is the most challenging part of the process is [Music] Artisans carefully remove excess silicon making sure not to cut too deeply and damage the doll's skin the realism of the doll's physical structure hinges on how seamless they can make the joints look once this is accomplished the doll is ready to come to life in the painting and hair Department here craftspeople meticulously work on the Cosmetic details from the texture of the skin to the shine of the nails and the color variation in the mouth various changes in complexion and veining on the body are all painted on foreign until Artisans achieve the desired look many of baby kron's clients as with other Reborn dolls are collectors and enthusiasts however these hyper realistic dolls are also used in other settings such as therapy for grieving parents and medical training like that provided by Michelle beacock the examination that I teach is a specialty Midwifery exam which all students now have to do if as a midwife we need to learn how to do a neonatal examination I feel that we need to do it on a really realistic baby because it's a really really important thing that we're looking at this baby and trying to confirm normality or not so if you're learning normal on a baby doll that doesn't look normal how are you ever going to know normal I think it's really really important that we have dolls like this so that you know it's it's nearly as good as that real life baby in front of you Michelle worked closely with baby Clon to design male and female dolls that are as an atomically accurate as possible including clavicles and pelvic bones they're called Olivia and John because they um they arrived on the day that Olivia Newton-John died and I think our technician was a fan though Olivia and John cost around 11 000 Euros together these dolls offer the most realistic experience Michelle could find on the market and even on this you can see how hard it is to to do the hip exam as opposed to that there's just a lot more realistic students training on a stiffer less accurate doll won't know exactly what to look for until they do their first examination on a real baby that's a huge chance to take when teaching midwives and it's a gamble every time because you're lovely but but no the more realistic the doll the more prepared The Midwives will be to thoroughly assess the health of the baby so basically all babies have what we call suture lines and fontanels little gaps in the scalp basically you can feel there you can feel the suture lines there and there's a bigger Fontana at the front that doesn't normally close till about 18 months the students need to be used to feeling that fontanelle if that was smaller or fused or closed it could indicate that there's a problem with with the brain not being able to grow because of the gaps in the heads not being there but the hyper realism doesn't end at the look and feel of the doll baby clown also offers animatronic dolls priced at just under 5 000 Euros these dolls can mimic breathing suckling and eye movements and for an extra few hundred euros buyers can also add a drink and wet system or eaten poo just as a real baby would start hello baby clone is even experimenting with AI saying it could Foster a more realistic interaction between dull and human it's complicated activities as technology evolves so will lifelike dolls and the uses their customers dream up I just didn't think that I'd ever get a doll like this to teach with and I'm absolutely thrilled that we have so if you think we've gone in my time of teaching from that to that it's just the difference is incredible foreign
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Reason behind Antartica ice wall
Antarctica is larger than the USA and Mexico combined and yet we still know next to nothing about what's hidden behind its menacing ice walls so what's actually lurking down near the South Pole well Gold spurting volcanoes human skulls and blood flowing waterfalls for starters folks dress warm because we're about to find out even more bones it might seem like Antarctica is nothing but ice ice and up did we mention ice but if we rewind the clock back to 71 million years ago lifeless flourishing there is no polar icecaps it was far warmer than it is now and Antarctica was reminiscent of a prehistoric Jurassic Park with dinosaurs strolling around alongside a range of other animals how do we know this well back in 2016 a team of researchers stumbled across a huge finding on James Ross island which is right about here now it wasn't pieces of the Titanic because that actually sank in the North Atlantic on the other side of the world it was in fact a ton of preserved bones these bones now considered fossils were analyzed and declared to be anywhere between 71 and 67 million years old most of them were related to ancient duck like creatures but don't you worry of course there were dinosaur bones to remember the Mosasaurus from Jurassic world well yeah they found evidence of that old beast floating around a human skull jump in the time machine skip back a few decades further and scientists actually discovered something even more intriguing a human skull yep back in 1985 researchers came across a human head which was thought to have been from the early 1820s making it one of if not the first landing in Antarctica we say landing because it supposedly belonged to an indigenous woman from southern Chile and was found right about here Yamata beach at Cape sheriff on the South Shetland Islands so you get the idea Antarctica isn't just ice and penguins it's a bone riddled graveyard as well mountains under the ice we're well aware of the immense amount of ice that covers Antarctica these days right the continent boasts around 90% of the planets freshwater ice with a 99% of the landmass being made up from two enormous three mile thick sheets of the stuff all up crossing roughly 5.4 million square miles that's like the contiguous United States three million 119,000 sorry Hawaii in Alaska not this time plus Argentina 1,100,000 Kazakhstan 1 million and France two hundred ten thousand 26 all rolled into one with a landmass that enormous you're probably thinking that there must be more to the story and you're right there is amazingly there's actually loads more to find including a mountain range but we're not talking about the Transantarctic mountains or Mount Erebus we're talking about the gambits of mountain range which is ready for it sneakily hidden away underneath the ice scientists actually discovered it back in 1958 when suddenly found themselves on thin ice within an area where it was supposed to be miles thick that the peaks below were discovered to be 9,000 feet high and close to 750 miles in width whoever thought that an entire Mountain would be good at hide-and-seek huh crystal spewing volcano you know what else is hiding behind that intimidating Antarctic ice wall a volcano that spurts of crystals whenever it darn well feels like it that's right Mount Erebus which is the second highest volcano in Antarctica and the southernmost active volcano on earth actually shoots out crystals from its central vent and has been doing so since way back in the 1970s these little crystals are called in North oklet's and look like this but they're not the only magic happening at this mysterious mountain American geologists have also found tiny crystals of metallic gold and nearby snow measuring up to 0.02 millimeters so like teeny tiny sadly though it's not enough to make us stinking rich any time soon the mountain only spurts about 80 grams of gold a day and considering that it covers a huge area with a peak of 3,700 94 meters good luck finding those microscopic specks but how is this even possible well Mount Erebus being you know a fiery volcano creates lava it's also one of the three permanent lakes of molten lava in the war that hot as heck lava amid searing gas and one of the elements in that gas is gold hallelujah when that gas makes contact with the icy air the temperature of the gas drops cooling from over 1,000 Celsius to under 100 Celsius creating tiny solids this entire process happens within a couple meters of the lava pool right speaking of gold want to know how much yours could be worth in the future check this out then the blood-red waterfall waterfalls are generally clear correct sometimes they can be a little brown if the water is muddy or white if the water is crashing hard but you know what they're usually not red waterfalls are not red ha well actually that's wrong in reality behind that ominous Antarctic wall of ice they are say hello to the appropriately named blood falls over at Taylor glacier located right about here take one look at that color and it's ominous bubbling and you'll understand how it got its name but what's the deal surely this isn't the aftermath of a gladiator battle or a massacre on ice thankfully there's nothing menacing going on over here the color is totally natural scientists initially thought that it was due to a collection of red algae from though because that sense been disproven after knocking their heads together and scanning the area beneath the falls researchers finally figured out that it was all thanks to a network of rivers and a glacier down under the ice surface all of which had flowing water that was abnormally high in iron it was the iron that caused the reddish tint hold on a second how can there be a flowing waterfall when the temperatures down there colder than my ex-girlfriends hard but well it's because those underground waters have a composition that includes a high level of salt water which by the way has a much lower freezing point compared to regular water so the high salt level combined with the iron is the reason why the blood falls don't freeze despite it being well below freezing temperatures at a mere 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit around negative 17 Celsius striped icebergs moving on most of the time the iceberg down in Antarctica are either snow capped in white or have a clear turquoise color reflect the water in sky but that makes plenty of sense you know it doesn't though green icebergs and black icebergs and royal blue icebergs yeah weird isn't it well they exist in incredibly they're actually rather common down near the South Pole these colors aren't just solid blocks of ice that looked like they've been mixed with some home brand food dye nope the colors usually appear in striped patterns it might seem crazy but it's actually true and there's a very simple explanation for it it's all due to the particular elements that were present in the water when they froze frozen water with algae becomes green grows and meltwater becomes blue and frozen water lined with the various sediments usually becomes black have you ever found a fly frozen in your ice cube tray similar concept to ATMs coming in way out of left field let's give a quick shout out to the two solitaire ATMs living in solitude down in Antarctica over at the McMurdo Station which is the largest scientific Basin across the entire region there is actually a shred of civilization wait how it sounds nuts but where do you think the researchers hang out when they're not climbing up Mount Erebus or playing tag with the Penguins McMurdo is home to some coffee shops a general store a post office and a few other bits and pieces and what do you need to buy things at these stores money since 1998 that pair of Wells Fargo ATMs have been the only means of withdrawing cash people might not venture down into Antarctica's icy abyss very often however that doesn't mean that it's a lifeless desert wait desert yeah you heard us right it might not have the sands of the Sahara man you wouldn't think a place largely covered in snow and ice would be dry but huzzah that's the case with Antarctica it's actually the try ass play Sun planet earth officially classified as a cold desert anyway where were we oh yeah life in the desert there are a number of endemic animals crawling swimming skating and hopping around the area some of which are cuddly and some of which are creepy and vicious all mostly hidden beyond the ice wall animals first off we've got the strange potentially scary yet definitely ugly sea pigs these so-called slugs of the sea have often been called the ugliest creature beneath the waves and it's not hard to see why then we've got our sea spiders these little critters can actually be found in other locations around the world however they're generally at sea Betsy growing up to a mere one millimeter in size in the Antarctic however things have taken a nightmarish turn Mother Nature has really outdone herself this time creating a concept called polar gigantism which effectively turns these teeny tiny sea spiders into pants wedding shriek inducing Sea Devils growing enormous ly to have a leg span of ten inches or 25 centimeters no thank you far friendlier are the emperor penguins phew these cute as a button birds are the largest of all species of penguin growing up to 45 inches and weighing up to 45 kilograms and in that bitterly cold weather we don't blame them for putting on a few extra pounds the chinstrap penguins by comparison are a little smaller but still just as cute rounding out our list of things hidden behind that menacing Antarctic wall we've got the enormous bird that is the wandering albatross with a captivating blue whale which is the largest animal ever known to have existed the killer whale aka the Orca which has actually rather friendly to humans and finally perhaps Antarctica's most violent creature of them all any guesses no not polar bears there they're the ones that go up in the north it's the leopard seal well that's all for what's really hiding out down in Antarctica do you want to visit there let us know in the comments make sure to like this video subscribe to the richest and join our notification squad thanks for watching and we'll see you next time
By Jashan sohi11 months ago in Earth
Human Evolution and Climate Change
The Question An oft asked question relates to how humans and every other species on the planet will or will not adapt to the new environmental conditions that climate change will quite probably (and arguably already has) impose across much of the globe. For other species the answer is fairly obvious, they will either adapt or they will perish. As has been the case throughout all of earth’s history, evolution through natural selection requires that those with the traits that are best adapted to reproduce will do so and so pass them on, especially when pressed by changes in the environment. Many argue that the changes we are seeing or will soon see as a result of climate change are occurring too rapidly for many species to adapt. In essence that evolution cannot keep up with the pace of change. Mutations simply cannot occur frequently enough to supply a wide enough variety of phenotypes of different varieties to allow for at least one that can survive the new conditions any given species may find itself in. Rapid changes are the hardest for the longest lived (excluding microorganisms), and slowest reproducing creatures to deal with, and they face the greatest threat of massive population decrease or even extinction. I happen to think that adaptation can happen much faster than is typically believed, but am not naïve enough to think that even a greatly accelerated adaptation or mutation process will be enough to save all or even most animal species from the threat of habitat loss or change brought about by global warming.
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