What I get to do at work

[nikimcbee]

Okay, so it's been really slow at work, so some co-workers and me put our SEM to use other than work purposes. Isn't bordom great!:up: If our other tool was working, I could have written my name on the ant's head

Say cheese:
The ant's look alittle weird because the have a heavy platnum coating, several Angstroms.:know:
http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/9371/antq28ul4.jpg (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/)

Ant eye, note the hair on the eye!
http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/3200/antq29eo8.jpg (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/)

My pix, my ant's head broke off, so this is looking inside the ant's thorax. Ant's heart?
http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/2163/bgantdecapq52bx4.jpg (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/)


Ant teeth
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/3141/antq30se6.jpg (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/)

ant hair
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/1817/antq33nb2.jpg (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/)

Spider
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/9720/spiderq28tw1.jpg (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/)


Spider eyes
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/1894/spiderq30ji1.jpg (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/)

Spider leg
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/1564/spiderq35vq9.jpg (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/)

spider hair:
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/5324/spiderq34qa1.jpg (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/)

hair folicle
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/1087/spiderq33do7.jpg (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/)

[nikimcbee]

Yellow jacket head
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/8375/waspq37gz4.jpg (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/)

eye
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/9678/waspq39al3.jpg (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/)

eye cell
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/2316/waspq41rn9.jpg (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/)

Abdomen
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/9057/waspq43ux9.jpg (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/)

abdomen hair
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/8002/waspq44vy9.jpg (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/)

abdomen hair close up
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/4541/waspq46xe3.jpg (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/)

the stinger
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/1785/waspq48yt5.jpg (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/)

[baggygreen]

I wish to god you hadnt put up the spidey photos.....

otherwise, thats awesome!

[kranz]

they gonna use those photos to make Alien 5

[nikimcbee]

I wish to god you hadnt put up the spidey photos.....

otherwise, thats awesome!

Ha, funny you should mention that. :oops: I got attacked by a very small jumping spider, which promptly found it's way in some pure IPA:cool: . When I put it under the stereoscope, it wasn't dead yet, and the damn thing moved! It scared the crap outta me.:oops:

[Enigma]

:o
Incredible pics. Thanks much for posting them.....:up:

[Raptor1]

How much can these magnify? I see 8,000x on the Eye cell picture but can it do more?

[McBeck]

EEWWWW,,,,im skipping my lunch now

[Dowly]

Wow, cool shots there Niki! :rock:

And pretty OT to close my post:

Just think if this fungus would someday evolve to be a threat to humans too:
http://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2006/11/20/brainwashed-by-a-parasite/

Just saw a documentary where it was mentioned (the same one from where the first youtube clip is taken on that site) and foooock. :o Nature is a sick sick sick place, I stay inside from now on. :lol:

[Raptor1]

Wow, cool shots there Niki! :rock:

And pretty OT to close my post:

Just think if this fungus would someday evolve to be a threat to humans too:
http://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2006/11/20/brainwashed-by-a-parasite/

Just saw a documentary where it was mentioned (the same one from where the first youtube clip is taken on that site) and foooock. :o Nature is a sick sick sick place, I stay inside from now on. :lol:

It's The Flood!

[Dowly]

Wow, cool shots there Niki! :rock:

And pretty OT to close my post:

Just think if this fungus would someday evolve to be a threat to humans too:
http://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2006/11/20/brainwashed-by-a-parasite/

Just saw a documentary where it was mentioned (the same one from where the first youtube clip is taken on that site) and foooock. :o Nature is a sick sick sick place, I stay inside from now on. :lol:
It's The Flood!

Ah... got me worried for a few secs there.. easy to get rid of then!
http://images.smarter.com/blogs/ps3.jpg

:rotfl:

[Platapus]

photography this close up is way cool. :up:

[Tchocky]

Ha, funny you should mention that. :oops: I got attacked by a very small jumping spider, which promptly found it's way in some pure IPA:cool: . When I put it under the stereoscope, it wasn't dead yet, and the damn thing moved! It scared the crap outta me.:oops: Do not mix alcohol with powerful microscopes...

or else...

http://pbfcomics.com/archive_b/PBF243-The_Shrink_Ray.gif

[STEED]

So while the rest of us explore outer space your into inner space. :cool:

[UnderseaLcpl]

I'm putting that spider pic on my girlfriends desktop. I can't wait till she wakes it up from "hibernate mode" :arrgh!:

[SUBMAN1]

I'm putting that spider pic on my girlfriends desktop. I can't wait till she wakes it up from "hibernate mode" :arrgh!:And you say you like her? You looking for a new girlfriend or something? :D

-S

PS. Awesome pics by the way!

[UnderseaLcpl]

I'm putting that spider pic on my girlfriends desktop. I can't wait till she wakes it up from "hibernate mode" :arrgh!:And you say you like her? You looking for a new girlfriend or something? :D

-S

PS. Awesome pics by the way!

Hey, if she doesn't eventually find that funny, she can take a hike.

[SUBMAN1]

Hey, if she doesn't eventually find that funny, she can take a hike. The words of true love right there! :D Funny!

-S

[sonar732]

Did that spider have it's fangs latched into something?

[nikimcbee]

Did that spider have it's fangs latched into something?

No, they just curve inward.

[nikimcbee]

I'm putting that spider pic on my girlfriends desktop. I can't wait till she wakes it up from "hibernate mode" :arrgh!:

...you mean your former GF:oops:

[August]

I'm putting that spider pic on my girlfriends desktop. I can't wait till she wakes it up from "hibernate mode" :arrgh!:
...you mean your former GF:oops:

It does have an air of inevitability, don't it... :yep:

[AVGWarhawk]

Wow, cool shots there Niki! :rock:

And pretty OT to close my post:

Just think if this fungus would someday evolve to be a threat to humans too:
http://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2006/11/20/brainwashed-by-a-parasite/

Just saw a documentary where it was mentioned (the same one from where the first youtube clip is taken on that site) and foooock. :o Nature is a sick sick sick place, I stay inside from now on. :lol:

Holy crap Dowly. The video is friggin weird. It looks like sci-fi but it is the truth concerning the fungus.

[Dowly]

Wow, cool shots there Niki! :rock:

And pretty OT to close my post:

Just think if this fungus would someday evolve to be a threat to humans too:
http://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2006/11/20/brainwashed-by-a-parasite/

Just saw a documentary where it was mentioned (the same one from where the first youtube clip is taken on that site) and foooock. :o Nature is a sick sick sick place, I stay inside from now on. :lol:
Holy crap Dowly. The video is friggin weird. It looks like sci-fi but it is the truth concerning the fungus.

Aye, was shocked to see it. Yikes! :o

[FIREWALL]

Has this website hit an all time low when we have to resort to looking at BUGS !!! :roll: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[nikimcbee]

Has this website hit an all time low when we have to resort to looking at BUGS !!! :roll: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

I de-processed an old processor:cool: , and cut it in half, but it wasn't that interesting to look at. So the bugs are cooler.

[Blacklight]

Do more !!! Do more !!!!

[UnderseaLcpl]

Can you put U.S. foreign policy under that microscope? It may expose some flaws.:rotfl:

[Syxx_Killer]

Thanks for the pics, nikimcbee! They sure are interesting. In the first shot of the ant, it looks like it is smiling!

Wow, cool shots there Niki! :rock:

And pretty OT to close my post:

Just think if this fungus would someday evolve to be a threat to humans too:
http://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2006/11/20/brainwashed-by-a-parasite/

Just saw a documentary where it was mentioned (the same one from where the first youtube clip is taken on that site) and foooock. :o Nature is a sick sick sick place, I stay inside from now on. :lol:

That website is just sick. Truth really is stranger than fiction! Seeing that worm thing crawl out of the bug and frog was nasty. How can something so long be inside that little bug? In that top video, was it a time-lapse of that fungus thing growing out of the ant's head? :o:dead:

[nikimcbee]

Has this website hit an all time low when we have to resort to looking at BUGS !!! :roll: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

I de-processed an old processor:cool: , and cut it in half, but it wasn't that interesting to look at. So the bugs are cooler.

Here's a processor: (These photos aren't the best:oops: )

an ISO layer? (isolation)
http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/5196/466q01al5.jpg (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/)

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/7094/466q02es0.jpg (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/)

??? You can see differrent layers here.

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/2664/466q03ab8.jpg (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/)

The funky stuff at the top is damage from the acid.
http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/4244/466q97rb2.jpg (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/)

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/5549/466q98ft4.jpg (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/)

Metal 1? layer with acid damage
http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/1201/466q99ul7.jpg (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/)

[nikimcbee]

This is somebody else's DRAM. This is the stuff I know.
http://images.pennnet.com/articles/sst/thm/th_0801sstembedded07.gif
This is very old technology.
http://images.pennnet.com/articles/sst/thm/th_0801sstembedded02.gif

intel processor
http://www.semiconductorblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/intel_yonah_general_sem_cross_section.jpg

Plasma etched
http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/431/armac19.jpg

[FIREWALL]

Now that's more like it.:D :up: :up: :up:

[August]

Can you put U.S. foreign policy under that microscope? It may expose some flaws.:rotfl:

Ain't that what we have German forum posters for?

[Dowly]

In that top video, was it a time-lapse of that fungus thing growing out of the ant's head? :o:dead:

:yep:

[SUBMAN1]

Check this - mini Microscopes you can carry in your pocket!

http://www.dailytech.com/Bioengineers+Create+MiniMicroscope/article12520.htm

-S