Russian X-Ray vision girl

[Darwin'sGoat]

Another article:

http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/377/11797_phenomenon.html

Perhaps, Natasha"s latest surgery has triggered such "vision improvement". Natasha"s appendix has been removed. However, by the time she was scheduled to be sent home from the hospital, she could hardly move. Ultrasound revealed that doctors forgot to remove sanitary cotton tampons from the girl"s intestines. Natasha was once again hospitalized and operated for the second time. In a month after that incident, the teenager was able to surprise her mother with her unique quality. "I see a crimped tube similar to our vacuum cleaner inside of you. I also see two beans and a tomato that resembles a bulls' heart," states the girl. Back then, she was not aware of medical terminology and could not provide a proper name for a heart, a liver, a kidney, or intestines. She simply compared what she saw to fruits and vegetables.

Natasha is capable of distinguishing even the tiniest pathology on a molecular level in the deepest corners of a human body, which are usually left undetected by regular ultrasound. "It's like having double vision. I can switch from one to the other in no time if I need to know a person's health problem," says the teenager. "I see an entire human organism. It is difficult to explain how I determine specific illnesses. There are certain impulses that I feel from the damaged organs. The secondary vision works only in daytime and is asleep at night."

 

[Todd H]

"Russian X-Ray vision girl"

...sounds like an old song by The Cure.



Barkhorn.

Thanks. Now I can't get the sound of Robert Smith singing those words out of my head! AAAGGGGGHHH!!!!

 

[Matabiri]

Thanks. Now I can't get the sound of Robert Smith singing those words out of my head! AAAGGGGGHHH!!!!

Oh no... what a personal disaster...

(Bonus marks to anyone who identifies the reference)

 

[Ipecac]

I see a crimped tube similar to our vacuum cleaner inside of you. I also see two beans and a tomato that resembles a bulls' heart," states the girl. Back then, she was not aware of medical terminology and could not provide a proper name for a heart, a liver, a kidney, or intestines.

She doesn't know the proper name for a heart? Huh? Isn't it "heart"? And yet she knows the name for a bull's heart and what one looks like.

Man, people are stupid.

 

[Hannibal]

Oh no... what a personal disaster...

(Bonus marks to anyone who identifies the reference)

Newman & Baddiel, "Ray"...do I win $1m?

Edited to add: I loved their Robert Smith doing the laughing policeman song!

 

[Aoidoi]

X-Ray? Darnit, I thought it was X-rated. Nevermind.

 

[tracer]

She doesn't know the proper name for a heart? Huh? Isn't it "heart"? And yet she knows the name for a bull's heart and what one looks like.

Don't forget, we're getting an English translation of what the girl said. She was undoubtedly speaking Russian. Perhaps Russian has a word for "bull's heart" that's common knowledge among farm peasants, and a totally separate word for "heart" when used in human anatomy.

 

[Kerberos]

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Perhaps, Natasha"s latest surgery has triggered such "vision improvement". Natasha"s appendix has been removed.
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Hey, I got my appendix removed years ago! Why didn't i get any cool superpowers?

 

[Nucular]

"I see a crimped tube similar to our vacuum cleaner inside of you. I also see two beans and a tomato that resembles a bulls' heart," states the girl. Back then, she was not aware of medical terminology and could not provide a proper name for a heart, a liver, a kidney, or intestines. She simply compared what she saw to fruits and vegetables.

Is a bull's heart a fruit?

Anyway, sounds more like she's describing a diagram she's seen in a book than what you'd actually see if you could look inside someone (which I never have, so I'm only guessing).

On a related note, I remember being convinced I had x-ray vision when I was about six years old - it was to do with when you look at something with slightly crossed eyes, and you see two of them which both look see-through. After a while I decided to actually test it, and had to eventually admit to myself that it wasn't x-ray vision after all. But that was after I'd told all my friends about my 'super power'. D'oh!

 

[Darwin'sGoat]

Hey, I got my appendix removed years ago! Why didn't i get any cool superpowers?

You should have insisted that they leave a bunch of sanitary cotton tampons in your intestines.

 

[Ladewig]

It's odd. All the Russian scientists I ever met were extremely sharp people, who would "see through" (sorry) such nonsense at once.

Where do all the dumb ones come from?

Imagine one is in a stagnant economy and is unable to get a job in the field one has studied for one's entire life life. Might one be tempted to say, "these powers are remarkable - of course, we will need more funding to document everything."

 

[Yahweh]

Russian Girl with X-ray vision, meet Robotic Scientist with ability to think.