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The little monsters in our tank (Beware: Science Pictures Inside!!!)
A little while back I was staring at the glass in my tank watching these bugs smaller than a pinhead bomb around the glass at a pretty good pace. A quick back of the napkin calculation said that these little buggers were running around at the equivalent of a human running 150 km/hr! (~20x their body length per second) "What are these microscopic speed demons?", I thought.
So, doing what any other normal person would do, I spent half an hour trying to catch one, dried it, gold coated it, and tossed it in a scanning electron microscope (SEM). This is what speed-racer looks like close up! ***I did this pretty quick and half-arsed, so pardon the dried salt crystals and other junk in the pics*** http://i927.photobucket.com/albums/a...psc3c99ba6.jpg http://i927.photobucket.com/albums/a...psa677c30a.jpg http://i927.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps251e671b.jpg http://i927.photobucket.com/albums/a...psa1f59081.jpg http://i927.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps101b7a26.jpg |
So cool. And to think 150 million years ago those things were the size of a VW
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Must be nice to have a SEM sitting aroun eh :razz:? |
sometimes I like not knowing...very cool photos but seriously ewww...
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Thats pretty cool. Wish my truck went that fast lol.
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Very cool, but now I don't want to put my arms in the tank.
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I think next up is one of the million pods running around my tank. |
That was pretty awesome...would love to see a pod up close.
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Love it!
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Awesome pics, u should look for more little monsters so u can take pics and post them here for us :D
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