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A Microbe's-Eye View of Beer
fjordboy writes "After a hard days work and a couple of beers, don't we all really wonder what our draft would look like under thousands of times magnification? Maybe not, but after nine years of work and five million dollars, Michael Davidson of Florida State University has created a website of microscopic proportions that will satiate anyone's curiosity. His site, MolecularExpressions.com has galleries full of images of ordinary materials under extraordinary magnification. The list of materials includes beers from around the world, popular cocktails, snoopy and many more. The site has a wealth of images that are well worth a look. CNN has a brief description of the site and the work that went into it, but feel free to skip that and just gaze at an Irish favorite." Some pretty new galleries since the last time we mentioned it.
didn't somebody mention this in the post about valentine's day gifts for geeks?
can be found here before the server gets /.ed to microscopic proportions
If you're religishitty, KILL YOURSELF!
Stella Artois , now that's what I call a beer!
Having worked with Mike a few years ago, all I can say is that he is used to getting slashdotted... give it your worst. Those servers can take it. ;)
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last time it was mentioned, the beer and cocktail galleries weren't posted. This isn't about the silicon artwork nearly as much as magnified beer.
The anti-salmon
Isn't that what Young Einstein did - split the beer atom to produce energy (and bubbles)?
A fine is a tax you pay for doing wrong and a tax is a fine you pay for doing all right.
Beck's - This Octoberfest beer...
Octoberfest beer???
I guess the local breweries from Munich would be very angry if you could buy Beck's there...
It's like serving Bourbon at an Scottish Pub... it will not happen.
I don't need a signature.
On the page regarding Guinness, they say that it is Extra Stout and from St. James Gate. However, all of the Extra Stout that I've ever been able to get here in the States is from Canada and is brewed by Labatt (according to my favorite local general store). It's the "Guinness Draught" that comes in the "nitro" bottles that seems to have been actually brewed in Ireland.
With that, they did choose the better of the two. More expensive, but better.
Withdrawal before climax is very ineffective and those who try this are usually called "parents."
Well, if you did take the time to read the article, you'd learn that these alcoholic mixtures are crystallised (mostly by freezing from what he seems to say) and then polarised light is directed through the crystals in a particular orientation to generate the pretty pictures.
Anonycow sez: "How can you call it an excrement?"
The organism excretes it as a waste product. That pretty much fulfills the definition.
"Do you call CO2 a human excrement?"
Actually, yes. Primarily through skin and lungs. Happily that, as well as our more commonly considered gasseous export, methane, is vented to the atmosphere and escapes our vicinity. Pretty much everything that comes out of yeasties gets stuck in solution. Of course, that's where we want it. We call it "the good stuff". You can't get to the top of the food chain by being too picky. Not knowing too much about it might help too. But it's too late for that now, isn't it?
At least now you have a come back next time someone quotes W.C. Fields about why he disliked drinking water (and so prefered booze).
"I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid." -- Bishop 341-B