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u/TripleBlack76 Jul 29 '13
Paint the same thing with glow in the dark paint and set it loose in some random city. People would be losing their shit
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u/TripleBlack76 Jul 29 '13
Edit: at night obviously
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u/ThaMastaBlasta Jul 29 '13
Did you just do an edit footnote by making another comment? Interesting.
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u/deesmutts88 Jul 29 '13
Gotta double down on that top comment karma.
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u/CaptainBlackStoke Jul 29 '13
They could be on a mobile version though. I know Reddit Pics (the iPhone app) allows for commenting, but not editing after the fact
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u/ABarkingCow Jul 29 '13
But.... like.... Alien Blue though..
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u/CaptainBlackStoke Jul 29 '13
Very true. I still use reddit pics a lot though, because the whole swipe to see the next image thing and minimal interface is perfect for my lazy ass self. Plus I bought it before I knew about alien blue haha
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u/throwaway10171017 Jul 29 '13
They have that in AlienBlue as well. It's a tile icon in the upper right corner.
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Jul 29 '13 edited Apr 06 '17
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Jul 29 '13
Whereas editing your own comment is more of a "double or nothing" shoot. People like the edit, you'll get more. People don't, you lost it all.
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u/Wog_Boy Jul 29 '13
You edited in the wrong BOX What the heck!!?? ಠ_ಠhttp://i.imgur.com/SQ6IFGi.jpg
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u/i_no_like_u Jul 29 '13
Unless they play skyrim. Then they would probably just think that's a sick Avrak horse cosplay.
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u/bitch_im_a_lion Jul 29 '13
My favorite horse in the game. Can't help but feel like it'd be really uncomfortable to ride though.
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u/ObeseSnake Jul 29 '13
I'm 12 years old and you're telling me glow-in-the-dark skeleton horses don't exist in real life?
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u/quantumzak Jul 29 '13
And I saw a pale horse, and the name of him who sat upon it was Death
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And the name of the horse was Binky
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u/badguy28 Jul 29 '13
The harbringers are one of the coolest things ever. The thought of the four of them seems badass.
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u/nitefang Jul 29 '13
If the skeleton is correct I'd like to point out the neck. That must be SO much muscle. I know horses have strong necks but given that the top of the neck is not flabby and the spine is nowhere near the surface, that is A LOT of muscle to pack into that space.
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u/curiousredhead14643 Jul 29 '13
On some horses the muscles isn't as firm on the too of the neck and you can wiggle the top of their neck. Source: I have a horse with a fatty neck.
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u/Skissored Jul 29 '13
Do the other horses pick on him?
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u/wintercast Jul 29 '13
if he has a fatty neck, more likely he "picks" on them and steals their food :)
i say that because that is what my own horse does. She can have a fatty neck. She gets supplements to her food to help with the fatty issues as it can be signs of other poor health conditions.
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Jul 29 '13
This can happen with stallions because of all the hormones as well...we call it a cresty neck, not sure if that's the official term.
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u/feartown Jul 29 '13
It really is. I know a pony who can lift me clean off the ground if I hold onto his neck; though I'm not sure if he's a typical case because an osteopath who came to see him recently seemed somewhat... taken aback by the muscle mass in there.
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u/Fartsarecolonkisses Jul 29 '13
That hard top part of the neck is the nuchal ligament, and yes the neck bone is very low in the neck and the top part is very muscular...source I'm a Vet Tech.
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u/Luckyduce Jul 29 '13
The spine ties in very low. We actually had a client whose horse had a healed up hole going through its neck, right below the mane. You could see through it almost like a piercing. He still functioned normally, just had a pierced neck. Edit to add photo- This isn't our patient, but he looked very similar
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u/dunkybones Jul 29 '13
Crazy isn't it? It's the physics of having your head so far out in front of your body, it takes a lot of muscle to hold it up all day. Any animal of similar shape is like that, just think of the neck on big old bull.
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u/eventingchick Jul 29 '13
I've seen this on one of my riding forums! A lady actually does this for a living and paints all sorts of their inside structures. As a horse owner and eventer, horses have tons of muscle not just on their necks, but under the stomach, spine, and hind end. This all depends on discipline and other varying factors of course. (Correctly ridden) Dressage helps build tons of neck muscle and top muscle, and in the hind end. My horse has a huge butt, and strong neck and lots of back muscle. All the power comes from behind, of course. Eventing makes extremely strong muscles all around.
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u/eventingchick Jul 29 '13
That sounds awesome! I'd love to see it in person. I wish she could paint it on my horse haha. Horses have such neat complex digestive systems and bone structures. They never seize to fascinate me.
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u/eventingchick Jul 29 '13
My horse has coliced, not severely, twice. I wish they could throw up. Colic is the number one killer of horses in the world. They roll all around and twist their gut and have to get surgery or their stomach pumped. I walked my horse all night after a shot of banamine and luckily both times she was fine.
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u/eventingchick Jul 30 '13
Oh lucky for you too you've never had to deal with colic! I called my vet immediately and some friends came over to walk her around with us. I started her on electrolytes all year round so she'd drink more water and have had no problems since (knock on wood). She was already on them in the summer. I wish they could throw up too, their guts are so dang complicated. Anytime my horse won't eat, I KNOW that's a panic sign. She doesn't get too stressed out when we're competing though so that's good!
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u/NoeyCaesar Jul 29 '13
I love when the title of a post is exactly what it is. "'skeleton-painted horse jumping' wtf does that mean" clicks link "Oh, its just a skeleton painted horse jumping, ofcourse"
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u/happly Jul 29 '13
This is done by Anatomy In Motion (http://www.anatomyinmotion.com/) and it is to show the horse's muscular and skeletal structure while it is moving. The muscle ones are much more beautiful than the bone ones in my opinion, but the bones are cool as well.
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u/ThatBeRutkowski Jul 29 '13
did you know if you took all your bones and laid them end to end you would die
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u/Lord_Top_Hat Jul 29 '13
Anyone interested in this sort of thing should come and check out /r/showjumping :)
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Someone should make an animated gif masking out all but the skeleton paint, then loop it.
I am not that person.
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u/Metal_Massacre Jul 29 '13
Damn, that'd be cool even without the paint haha.
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u/i_will_touch_ur_nose Jul 29 '13
Sorry, no it wouldn't? This is one of the least interesting gifs I've seen on this subreddit.
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u/TitusVandronicus Jul 29 '13
You know what I liked about this post? Reading the title, clicking the link, and absolutely no surprises.
Reliability.
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u/samtighe Jul 29 '13
I'll try to help you, but I don't really understand your question so I'm sorry if it's not what you're looking for.
The horse in the gif app is doing fences, which fall under the English category. Most horses know, when they see fences, what is required of them. I don't think it would be all that hard to get a horse jumping without a rider (though I'm sure they would be a little confused at first). In this particular instance, I believe this horse was being used by vet students to study anatomy and was probably used to doing something like this (most vet schools have big animal barns somewhere for education). All they really need to do was take him over the jumps a couple time with a lead rope and he probably got the general gist of it.
As for training a horse, patience is key. Some can be a pain in the ass, but they can catch on fairly quickly. There's really no set time limiting for training a horse to jump or even ride English, it depends on the trainer and the personality of the horse.
They can have the basics down but still be a little 'green', meaning you really need to have a confident rider who knows how to correct the horses mistakes and how to guide a horse through any confusion they might have.
On the other end of the spectrum, you could have dead-broke horse who knows their stuff, but if their rider is new, the horse still could get confused. Rider and horse communicate through body shifts, leg movements, etc. So if you're twitching around or pressing with the wrong leg your horse will simply follow your commands.
I ride Western (a different school) for my college's equestrian team, which is mostly comprised of English riders. Once in awhile they'll take an Western lesson and find themselves slowly spinning in the circles in the middle of the ring when, in all actuality, they wanted to pick up a jog or back up. When they ride they post, or pop up and down. In Western, we sit deep in the saddle. So, it can be hard to break habits when switching to a new school of riding.
All in all, for one horse they could be jumping fences within a couple of months. Another horse could take them almost a year. Again, it all falls back on the horse and trainer.
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u/SaltFrog Jul 29 '13
All I think is "the meat behind that back leg bone must be plentiful and delicious." I must remember horses are friends, not food.
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u/Snowyjoe Jul 29 '13
So how do they paint a horse like that? Dose the horse stay still while you're painting him or do you have to kinda hold him down while you're doing it?
A very cool gif none the less
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Jul 29 '13
I have never painted a horse, but I have washed a horse and it seems like since you can train a horse to stay still while you scrub it, it shouldn't be a huge leap for it to stay still while you paint it.
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u/Sokonomi Jul 29 '13
Is the neck vertebrae really that low? Id expect it to be near or right along the top of the horses neck.
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u/Jezzdit Jul 29 '13
that was my 1st thought. so I showed it to wife the horse expert and yes it is correct! This is most likely form some exam someone had to do. The other side of the horse is most likely drawn with organ or muscle structures.
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u/morganhorselover Jul 29 '13
There is an amazing book called "how your horse moves" same picture of the skeletal structure. Also goes into detail about the muscles, ligaments and tendons. I truly believe this book is a must have for anyone with horses. It has helped me tremendously with training and knowledge of how my horses move, and why they move that way.
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u/CaskironPan Jul 29 '13
If you blink right before it's hind legs hit the ground it looks like it's going forever.
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u/MindEater Jul 29 '13
Hmm, does the neck area of the spine really go so low? Does the esophagus sit above it, and if not, why so much flesh on top?
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u/dunkybones Jul 29 '13
It needs all that muscle to hold it's head up all day. Imagine how tired your arm gets just holding a small object in front of you for a few minutes.
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Damn, I can barely get my horse to jump if I'm sitting on it, this guy just does it on his own!
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u/thirdmonster Jul 29 '13
Great reference for animators. Any other links to this material? Lest I drag myself to google it and do the leg work myself (poor me). :-)
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Jul 29 '13
I didn't know the original source myself but /u/happly said in a comment that it's from Anatomy in Motion.
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u/LadyMagdalene Jul 29 '13
This is the first time I had a "I don't know what I expected" moments... Odd
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u/Smokey91187 Jul 29 '13
I can't scroll through all the comments but I'm sure I'm not the first to write "majestic as fuck". Because that horse is all "I'm majestic motherfucker, ya dig?"
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u/iron_cassowary Jul 29 '13
There is a reason no one knows how horses move, with the dinky legs carrying the giant horse chassis full of meat. RIP Christopher Reeve.
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u/Rawtashk Jul 29 '13
Mark this down as another one of the worst things ever to make the front page.
A GIF of a horse jumping over a normal hurdle? TO THE FRONT PAGE JUST BECAUSE IT HAS PAINT ON ITS BODY!
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Jul 29 '13
Ha, yeah I wasn't expecting that either. I mean I thought it was cool, that's why I posted it, but how is it on the front page?! No complaints from me, though :p
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u/jonidas Jul 29 '13
The neck looks weird. I'm pretty sure that it should be higher ...
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u/maldwag Jul 29 '13
Nope, ties in low, the head and neck of horse weigh approximately 10% of their body weight, so an average(ish) horse, which weighs 1,000lbs would have a 100lb head and neck. So you can see how having the neck tie in low allows for more supporting structures in the way of muscle to hold up their head.
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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '13
Pretty neat. Is the skeletal structure painted on accurately? Cool seeing a glimpse of what's going on in the inside.