Finally! An answer to a question that's been burning on all our minds!

As I watched the 200 days flash by, I couldn't help thinking, "What if it wasn't an apple and it was a person instead?"  It was fun to watch John, thanks for sharing. 

Very cool.  I did a similar experiment with buttermilk donuts.  When I finished college, I was hired as a cost accountant in a large aerospace firm. The department had about 15 people.  There was a woman in her 50's that trained the new hires, and she was not the easiest person to work with. Once or twice a month we would be required to work a half day on Saturdays.  This woman kept a "donut list", and each work Saturday she assigned someone to buy two dozen donuts for the group.  The one requirement was that you had to buy two unglazed buttermilk donuts for her. She hit me up the first week I was there! When my turn came up again, I bought a couple of extra buttermilk donuts and left them in my desk drawer to do a 'switcheroo' in a few months. I had those donuts in my desk for six month and they still looked as good as fresh ones, although they were rock hard!  However, despite prodding from my coworkers, I never had the guts to switch them out and they ultimately ended up in the trash.  🙁

I'm very much glad that this was not a body, George.

There is or was a place (I think perhaps in Tennessee or Kentucky ?) called the "Body Farm" where people donate their body to used (after they are dead, of course, lol !) and placed out in a field or woodland or in a pond, to learn what happens when a corpse is in those conditions, either by accident or as a result of a crime. Investigators have learned a large amount of information about a host of effects on a body, which helps police or emergency crews make valid estimates about time or method of death, etc. 

Posted by: @mikedetorrice

There is or was a place (I think perhaps in Tennessee or Kentucky ?) called the "Body Farm" where people donate their body to used (after they are dead, of course, lol !) and placed out in a field or woodland or in a pond, to learn what happens when a corpse is in those conditions, either by accident or as a result of a crime. Investigators have learned a large amount of information about a host of effects on a body, which helps police or emergency crews make valid estimates about time or method of death, etc. 

They have been using pig carcasses for years for such forensic pathology research.  It seems to be the accepted standard in the last 40 years that I have been aware. I'm not sure if human cadavers are still used but it wouldn't surprise me if this practice fell out of favor.

Posted by: @jack-dodds

They have been using pig carcasses for years for such forensic pathology research.  It seems to be the accepted standard in the last 40 years that I have been aware. I'm not sure if human cadavers are still used but it wouldn't surprise me if this practice fell out of favor.

It seems they still use real human bodies, as they would have unique characteristics.

http://www.jeffersonbass.com/tour-the-body-farm.html

I have something else that`s been burning......for a WHILE now.....will that be covered in future episodes here?

@john-barry, perhaps. But, really, haven't we answered the most prominent issue?

Posted by: @jkuvakas

@john-barry, perhaps. But, really, haven't we answered the most prominent issue?

Yes, we have. If an apple gets murdered and falls into a lake, we can now judge when the crime likely took place. No more escaping responsibility for apple killers !

@mikedetorrice Thanks Mike....I learned something today.