Microcosmos: Everything gets cooler when magnified
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[quote]Quite what this industrious little wood ant is planning to do with this microchip is not known, but how appropriate it is that he appears to have a scientific interest.
Because the insect features in a stunning new book featuring the art of the coloured scanning electron micrograph - in the case of this chap magnified 22 times.
Microcosmos takes readers into a secret world of extreme close-ups. Some subjects have been magnified by as much as 22million times.
Detailed descriptions of the subjets are contained within. The wood ant, for example, is a social creature, and acts as a slave for the blood-red ant Formica sanguinea.
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Holding steady: The wood or heathland ant holding a microchip in its toothed (serrated) mandibles. The wood ant is social, and acts as a slave for the blood-red ant Formica sanguine
Inseminated females of the blood-red ant invade wood ant nests, steal the pupae, and the ants that hatch are made to work for the strange queen.
Compiled by London-based science author Brandon Broll, Microcosmos takes a piercing look at the everyday in six sections including Zoology, The Human Body and Botanics.
Another fantastic picture is the piece of small household dust below.
It has been magnified 115 times, but it contains long hairs such as cat fur, twisted synthetic and woollen fibres, a pollen grain, plant and insects[/quote]
Basically, it's a lot of awesome microphotography.
Human eyebrow hair:
[img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/10/08/article-1318795-0B875D38000005DC-944_634x532.jpg[/img]
A mosquito. :buddy:
[img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/10/08/article-1318795-0B875A99000005DC-239_634x474.jpg[/img]
Rusty nail. Almost looks like a abandoned wasteland.
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More pics in the [url=dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1318795/Feeling-chipper-wood-ant-caught-bringing-science-life.html]article[/url].
The mosquito looks scary.
Sweet. I love how small details really get.
I haven't clicked the link yet but it'd be cool to see a bee stinger or the mosquito's tube thing.
That picture with the wood ant was inside my old science textbook.
Fucking get them off me i fucking hate bugs!!!
Where can I get this book.
It's amazing how fugly our skin is up close.
I love how the rusty metal nail looks like some alien planet.
The silicon microchip looks like candy strips:
[img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/10/08/article-1318795-0B875BE9000005DC-94_634x439.jpg[/img]
Pictures like this creep me out so much.
The headlouse freaked me the fuck out when I first saw it.
Then I was like, "... cooool."
[img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/10/08/article-1318795-0B875B1A000005DC-419_634x527.jpg[/img]
[quote] A human head louse clings to a strand of hair[/quote]
Sweet Jesus
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So thats how velcro works!
It really grosses you out a bit, about your own body.
I'd get the book if I could.
[QUOTE=green bandit;25325408]It really grosses you out a bit, about your own body.
I'd get the book if I could.[/QUOTE]
poop comes out of ur but!!!!!!
This is [B]NOT[/B] helping my insect phobia.
It seems like everything that is zoomed in like this have really trippy colours.
I had a book of this stuff when I was a kid. It was mainly just hairs and bugs and stuff, though. Shit was so cash.
[QUOTE=Kazumi;25327468]It seems like everything that is zoomed in like this have really trippy colours.[/QUOTE]
It has a reason but I forgot.
:frown:
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fucking epic. It's cigarette paper, those crystals add oxygen when burnt so it keeps the paper burning
I searched Microcosmos on Images, but i got Snails doing it.
[IMG]http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/4506/snailsexfs.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=shadow_of_intent;25328815]I searched Microcosmos on Images, but i got Snails doing it.
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Because Microcosmos is also the name of a french documentary which revolves around the life of small organisms.
Awesome.
Anywhere else we can get some awesome photos like these? Besides the article?
Also guys just so you know, things aren't really that coloured, they're edited to be like that.
I think.
I dont see many green eyebrows, so they are colored.
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