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It's back!!!

Originally posted by geshel
It's a preserved corpse (plasticized) set up to look like it's playing chess:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...otos_us_rank_afp/031110170012_4gzjtqp9_photo0

The caption doesn't say, but I think this one German doctor guy is the one who prepared it. I forgot his name.

Ah, here we go

http://www.beachbrowser.com/Archives/eVoid/April-2001/Plasticized-Corpse-Exhibit.htm

It's Gunther von Hagens, and the process is called "plastination".

Also see Alex Grey. :D