What I get to do at work
 

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

Ant eye, note the hair on the eye!
http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/3200/antq29eo8.jpg

My pix, my ant's head broke off, so this is looking inside the ant's thorax. Ant's heart?
http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/2...ecapq52bx4.jpg


Ant teeth
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/3141/antq30se6.jpg

ant hair
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/1817/antq33nb2.jpg

Spider
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/9...iderq28tw1.jpg


Spider eyes
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/1...iderq30ji1.jpg

Spider leg
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/1...iderq35vq9.jpg

spider hair:
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/5...iderq34qa1.jpg

hair folicle
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/1...iderq33do7.jpg

Yellow Jacket
 

Yellow jacket head
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/8375/waspq37gz4.jpg

eye
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/9678/waspq39al3.jpg

eye cell
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/2316/waspq41rn9.jpg

Abdomen
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/9057/waspq43ux9.jpg

abdomen hair
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/8002/waspq44vy9.jpg

abdomen hair close up
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/4541/waspq46xe3.jpg

the stinger
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/1785/waspq48yt5.jpg

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

otherwise, thats awesome!

they gonna use those photos to make Alien 5

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:

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

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

EEWWWW,,,,im skipping my lunch now

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...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:

photography this close up is way cool. :up:

Do not mix alcohol with powerful microscopes...

or else...

http://pbfcomics.com/archive_b/PBF24...Shrink_Ray.gif

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

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