Pretty pictures from the nano world

[pokerfan]

I was googling for the video of the first electron ever but found this instead.

Scientists Scan Striking Nanoscale Images

Caption these pictures first, then read the article to find out what they are.




















And oh yeah, the story and the video of the electron: Electron rides a wave of light on video.

[Maestro]

1. Fascinating

It blows my mind.

[Muttocracy]

2. neat stuff! A couple similar ones

Tiny superbowl trophy:
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Jan08/nanotrophy.ws.html

Microscopy photo contest (not as spectacular as ones you posted, but still neat)
http://www.ccmr.cornell.edu/facilities/contestimages/Winners08Jan/

[pokerfan]

4. Very cool!

[DarkTirade]

3. Well that second one is obviously a larval sarlaac...

I don't even need to read the article for that one. :P

[pokerfan]

14. I had to look that up

finding http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page">Wookieepedia ib the process.

[DarkTirade]

20. Rather sad that I know how to spell sarlaac without having to look it up... :P

[Deja Q]

5. Okay

1. Porcupine close-up
2. Is that Britney again?
3. I will never eat twinkies ever again.
4. I will never eat gummy worms ever again!
5. No comment.
6. Hey, no pictures! The lil' dude is sacred, don'cha'know?
7. Bryce 6.1 does a hell of a better job at landscape raytracing...
8. Ditto
9. Krispy Cremes got burnt?

[RushIsRot]

6. Wow! I got 100% of them... wrong.

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. Stunning. Thanks for posting those!

[MilesColtrane]

8. #1) Nothing is as soothing as a cat tongue.

#2) Dude, level 30 on Vortex is starting to scare me!

#3) Your Mom's meatloaf on the molecular level.

#4) Screenshot from "Who's Your Daddy: DNA Paternity Wars NES".

#4) NanoDukey

#5) CGI shot from the movie "The Unitarian Code".

#6) When you examine the Bush administration at the atomic level everything looks like a screaming smiley face.

#7) Goodyear AquaTreads for Quantum SUVs.

#8) Mmmm...tiny doughnuts...is there anything they CAN'T do?

[Heidi]

13. !!!!

:rofl:

:spray:

[pokerfan]

9. Another one

[Skittles]

10. #9) definitely a tampon

not sure what it's up to though :D

[laconicsax]

11. Is this what you were looking for?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23336318/

[pokerfan]

12. Thanks but I found it

It's in the OP.

[redqueen]

15. Ooooh neat...

thanks for posting this!

[IzaSparrow]

16. 2 for 9

I got the bacteria and the red blood cells correct. Way off on the others.

[ChickMagic]

17. 3 for 9

E. coli, Cyanobacter & blood cells. Can you
guess my major?

[Deep13]

18. Seedlings in a pencil forest; 3D map of Mt. Scab; ...

Twinkie found on the surface of Europa;
Cheetos explosion;
annual migration of the bread loaves;
Is every sperm sacred? Tonight at 11;
new Swedish underarm crystal;
potatoes and tater tots attend a rally;
1/2 off on month-old donuts.

[Akoto]

19. The last one looks like nano-bundt cakes. n/t

[Cannikin]

21. This one reminds me of something I've seen in a certain tv show I've been watching:

Sapphire
Scott MacLaren, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, collaborated with Fumiya Watanabe and David Cahill to create this image of a precisely crafted crater on a sapphire substrate.


Head Six: There it is Gaius, it has the answers to all of your questions.
Baltar: That's the eye?
D'Anna (# Three): What is?
Baltar: Oh uh, something the Hybrid said. Uh, sapphire blue, shining light up to a star.

Two caps from the episode "Maelstrom"