Microcosmos: Everything gets cooler when magnified - Polidicks

[QUOTE=NeoTurtle;25328898]Also guys just so you know, things aren't really that coloured, they're edited to be like that. I think.[/QUOTE] Electronmicroscopes can only take black and white images, so they colour the images to give it a better contrast.

[QUOTE=DrLuke;25329177]Electronmicroscopes can only take black and white images, so they colour the images to give it a better contrast.[/QUOTE] Have they not invented colour ones yet? :v:

Some of these are like complete landscapes. Someone should use them for maps on some game.

[QUOTE=Rosek;25329320]Have they not invented colour ones yet? :v:[/QUOTE] That's not how it works. Electron miscroscopes shoot electrons at the target which then looses energy on impact. That energyloss is measured in some fancy way. But all you can conclude from that is basically the height information, then mapped into a picture. But to get the color you need to "measure" the photons (for example with your eyes).

More more more more!!!

[img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/10/08/article-1318795-0B875B1A000005DC-419_634x527.jpg[/img] Sweet Jesus Reapers already here :derp:

This is so awesome!

What boggles my mind about this is not that these things are so small, but that there are even SMALLER things associated with them. [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/10/08/article-1318795-0B8759DC000005DC-270_634x503.jpg[/img] The roughness on the butterfly eggs are ridiculously tiny.

[QUOTE=Elexar;25328766][B]It has a reason but I forgot.[/B] :frown: [/QUOTE] It's because they're artificially colored. These aren't taken by cameras, they're some kind of sensor that sends out photons or some shit and when they bounce back, that's the image. And the image comes back in black and white. [editline]12:38AM[/editline] At least that's basically what they told us in Science class. What I said is just a rough idea of what that kind of microscope does.

[QUOTE=Rosek;25329320]Have they not invented colour ones yet? :v:[/QUOTE] It's kinda impossible since you're not shooting light photons, you're shooting electrons to the subject, which our eyes can't really discern. :science: SCIENCE! :science:

I have seen an ant under a microscope, it was still alive. It move, I screamed like a girl. :buddy:

Don't the things they put under electron microscopes need to be dead?

[QUOTE=Tetracycline;25341921]Don't the things they put under electron microscopes need to be dead?[/QUOTE] Yes. Because they're in a vacuum. They probably placed the ant like that, and glued the chip into it's mandibles.

[img]http://rafefurst.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/micro1.jpg[/img] E. Coli looks like candy!

When i first saw the picture of the ant i asked myself ''What is that ant doing with a xbox?"

[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;25342332][img]http://rafefurst.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/micro1.jpg[/img] E. Coli looks like candy![/QUOTE] delicious, delicious, e.coli

I wonder what Shit looks like under a microscope. [editline]02:00PM[/editline] No seriously, I meant feces. Poop

[QUOTE=BCell;25343478]I wonder what Shit looks like under a microscope. [editline]02:00PM[/editline] No seriously, I meant feces. Poop[/QUOTE] A man in a wheel chair, moving on.

[QUOTE=ManningQB18;25324194][img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/10/08/article-0-0B8760A0000005DC-646_634x617.jpg[/img] So thats how velcro works![/QUOTE] Weird how the little cracks and cuts in the hooks are so uniform.

If eyebrows look that nasty that close I wonder how bad acne would look.

[QUOTE=mjbrooks194;25344223]If eyebrows look that nasty that close I wonder how bad acne would look.[/QUOTE] you'd have to cut off a part of someone's face to get acne under a microscope ...or kill a person

[QUOTE=Tetracycline;25344237]you'd have to cut off a part of someone's face to get acne under a microscope ...or kill a person[/QUOTE] that's for light microscopes, not for electron microscopes. I know thát much.

[QUOTE=Tetracycline;25344237]you'd have to cut off a part of someone's face to get acne under a microscope ...or kill a person[/QUOTE] So how would they have done the eyebrow image? ...

[QUOTE=mjbrooks194;25353613]So how would they have done the eyebrow image? ...[/QUOTE] you tell me, I know for a fact that electron microscopes require dead specimens [editline]10:10PM[/editline] or they will be dead if they aren't already heh

[QUOTE=mjbrooks194;25353613]So how would they have done the eyebrow image? ...[/QUOTE] Sacrifices must be made so that we can look at really small stuff.

Actually it's pretty obvious that it's merely a flake of skin, not part of a whole human

Awesome detailed pictures, I want more.