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Does Tennessee still have the Body Farm outside the football stadium.
Posted on 6/6/19 at 12:27 am
Posted on 6/6/19 at 12:27 am
Does it smell? Does anybody have a relative hanging around?
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Posted on 6/6/19 at 12:42 am to NoNotMe
I would bet a significant amount that it smells better at that farm than it does in Starkville
Posted on 6/6/19 at 6:45 am to sand mountainDvalues
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Posted on 6/6/19 at 6:58 am to NoNotMe
They're underneath the stadium according to Miss Sue.
Posted on 6/6/19 at 7:08 am to NoNotMe
Yes, it's outside the stadium - about 10 miles away. What ignorant propaganda!
Posted on 6/6/19 at 7:09 am to sand mountainDvalues
Posted on 6/6/19 at 7:30 am to NoNotMe
Not sure, but they are studying Butch Jones career at the Body Farm right now
Posted on 6/6/19 at 7:42 am to NoNotMe
tell me more about the body farm. do you have a link
Posted on 6/6/19 at 9:18 am to yatesdog38
Why do you need a link. Here you go. Put Tennessee Body Farm in a search and you get thousands of stories pics, and videos. Warning...Not for the faint of heart.
Posted on 6/6/19 at 10:03 am to NoNotMe
Wiki:
"It consists of a 2.5-acre (10,000 m2) wooded plot, surrounded by a razor wire fence. At any one time there will be a number of bodies placed in different settings throughout the facility and left to decompose. The bodies are exposed in a number of ways in order to provide insights into decomposition under varying conditions. Some of the conditions students studied were situations such as a body being locked in the trunk of a car, or being submerged under water, which provided some factual and data driven knowledge to help in many forensic cases.[9] Observations and records of the decomposition process are kept, including the sequence and speed of decomposition and the effects of insect activity. The human decomposition stages that are studied begin with the fresh stage, then the bloat stage, then decay, and finally the dry stage.[10]"
"It consists of a 2.5-acre (10,000 m2) wooded plot, surrounded by a razor wire fence. At any one time there will be a number of bodies placed in different settings throughout the facility and left to decompose. The bodies are exposed in a number of ways in order to provide insights into decomposition under varying conditions. Some of the conditions students studied were situations such as a body being locked in the trunk of a car, or being submerged under water, which provided some factual and data driven knowledge to help in many forensic cases.[9] Observations and records of the decomposition process are kept, including the sequence and speed of decomposition and the effects of insect activity. The human decomposition stages that are studied begin with the fresh stage, then the bloat stage, then decay, and finally the dry stage.[10]"
Posted on 6/6/19 at 10:04 am to stomp
What. The. Hell.
Posted on 6/6/19 at 10:14 am to stomp
It is used for studies. Primarily on decay and insect response to dead bodies. Lots of valuable research has come from that project. Things like determination of time of death to helping to localize where a body might have been dumped prior to its discovery. By looking at larvae and insects they can determine time based upon life cycles, which are usually known. Real CSI type of research. It is a stinky ungrateful job. They leave bodies out in the weather and all types of circumstances to monitor decay.
Posted on 6/6/19 at 10:29 am to NoNotMe
When I was getting my Masters Degree, one of the professors in the Geography(?) or Archeology(?) dept had gotten his Ph.D. from U.T. and had gone through the forensic anthropology course. (This is the only part of the story that's relevant to the original thread topic.)
Long story short, the mammalogy/herpetology lab where I went to school had a chest type freezer where they stored carcasses they folks had collected throughout the course of the year. The labs then dissected and taxidermied the skins and skeletons as part of their curriculum.
Well, one of the other biology professors had "borrowed" the lab to teach a class and needed an outlet to plug in a slide projector. Of course, they selected the one where the freezer was plugged in. Well, when class was over, they neglected to plug the freezer BACk in.....
A few days later, that wing of the science building stunk to high heaven. Nobody could figure out where the smell was coming from at first. But it didn't take long to track it down. The only solution at the time was to plug the freezer back in, duct tape it closed, and put signs on it that read "DO NOT OPEN!! EVER!!".
Eventually the time came to demolish the science building and move it to a new building on campus. A solution had to be found to the problem of the freezer of Rank.
This is where the intrepid UT grad showed his courage. He and a few of his grad students volunteered (See what I did there?) to put the freezer in the back of a truck, drive it out to a farm away from campus, let it defrost and go through it a couple of days later. Which they did.
I was not present for the defrosting, but the legend of it persisted for years and was lore among those of us in the grad program at the time. You ask why didn't they just take it to the dump? Because that's boring and this was a unique learning experience for those folks. Us scientist often are stuck doing mundane and "boring" things most of the time. When an opportunity to do something like this presents itself, there are those that jump on it...
Long story short, the mammalogy/herpetology lab where I went to school had a chest type freezer where they stored carcasses they folks had collected throughout the course of the year. The labs then dissected and taxidermied the skins and skeletons as part of their curriculum.
Well, one of the other biology professors had "borrowed" the lab to teach a class and needed an outlet to plug in a slide projector. Of course, they selected the one where the freezer was plugged in. Well, when class was over, they neglected to plug the freezer BACk in.....
A few days later, that wing of the science building stunk to high heaven. Nobody could figure out where the smell was coming from at first. But it didn't take long to track it down. The only solution at the time was to plug the freezer back in, duct tape it closed, and put signs on it that read "DO NOT OPEN!! EVER!!".
Eventually the time came to demolish the science building and move it to a new building on campus. A solution had to be found to the problem of the freezer of Rank.
This is where the intrepid UT grad showed his courage. He and a few of his grad students volunteered (See what I did there?) to put the freezer in the back of a truck, drive it out to a farm away from campus, let it defrost and go through it a couple of days later. Which they did.
I was not present for the defrosting, but the legend of it persisted for years and was lore among those of us in the grad program at the time. You ask why didn't they just take it to the dump? Because that's boring and this was a unique learning experience for those folks. Us scientist often are stuck doing mundane and "boring" things most of the time. When an opportunity to do something like this presents itself, there are those that jump on it...
This post was edited on 6/6/19 at 10:33 am
Posted on 6/6/19 at 10:58 am to stomp
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The human decomposition stages that are studied begin with the fresh stage,
Pruitt
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then the bloat stage,
Fulmer
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then decay,
Dooley & Butch
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and finally the dry stage.
Neyland
Posted on 6/6/19 at 11:51 am to InThroughTheOutDore
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InThroughTheOutDore
Holy hell
Posted on 6/6/19 at 12:46 pm to DocYates
We did it with hogs. Is there really that much of a difference in decay rates in the same exact environment between hogs and humans? aren't the same bugs, microbes, and larvae eating through the same chemical makeup?
Posted on 6/6/19 at 1:01 pm to NoNotMe
Seems like a place and course better suited for gainesville.
Posted on 6/6/19 at 2:31 pm to NoNotMe
The body farm has never been near the stadium. However, bodies were housed beneath the stadium for a while.
Posted on 6/6/19 at 3:00 pm to yatesdog38
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We did it with hogs. Is there really that much of a difference in decay rates in the same exact environment between hogs and humans? aren't the same bugs, microbes, and larvae eating through the same chemical makeup?
I'm not nearly knowledgeable enough on the subject to answer your questions with any certainty, but I can definitely state that hogs certainly couldn't be better to learn this information from. Best case scenario is that hogs provide EXACTLY the same information that humans do, and while it may be close, I doubt it is exactly the same (again, I'll readily admit I don't know that for sure). If you have willing human subjects, why not use the real thing so that you know you are getting the best information possible. I understand that people want their bodies handled in a variety of ways for a variety of reasons after they die, and I completely respect that and wouldn't judge anyone for what they want done with their body when the time comes. Personally, I hope that my organs can save lives or that my body can be used for research or another useful purpose.
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