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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.
...one realizes that beer is actually LSD?
May we never see th
I hear that you can split the beer atom and get unlimited energy!
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Microscope: Basics and Beyond (50 pages; 20.7 Mbytes)
This can only end in a webserver crying.
Beer AND science? Sign me up!!
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...I tend to see those colors as well. Oh well, time for another.
....is this.
still no cure for cancer
You need to learn to read a little better; they provided several links along the side of the article. I know, because I read the article a few days ago and visited the sites they spoke about.
What?
didn't somebody mention this in the post about valentine's day gifts for geeks?
A man comes into the bar and wants a beer. He asks the bartender how much and he says 5 cents. The man asked the bartender how he could afford to stay in business. Well the bartender says he won the lottery and always wanted to sell a drink at a reasonable price. Spend his last days enjoying the company of his customers.
Well the man takes a long pull of his beer and looks around and asks the bartender who those group of people at the end of the bar were. It appeared they were not drinking.
The bartender said with a scowl on his face, oh them, they are high school teachers.
The man asks why did that matter?
The bartender says they are so cheap they are waiting for happy hour.
can be found here before the server gets /.ed to microscopic proportions
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Stella Artois , now that's what I call a beer!
I'd love to know what modifications they did to this cool little toy, does anyone have any info on this? i searched the site but all they mention is the different light sources and filters they used, nothing about lenses and diffraction rings and such
drunk chemists
still no cure for he humor impaired.
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It always scares me to look at Guiness and see it staring back at me with those red eyes and fangs.
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from urine samples. Plus ca change etc
it just makes you wonder what there is to research when academic instutions are paid millions to take pictures of things at micro-miniscule dimensions.
This site is great for zooming in on everyday objects
no beer, but check out the tooth
Anyone have any idea why, when photographed, the various drinks appear to have some amount of order ? They all appear to have some order when you would think that fluid dynamics of a drink implies chaos, why the sudden transitions? why the crystal pattern? anyone care to enlighten me, since I'm a bit too drunk (read: bad with physics) to look anything up right now?
There are plenty of better stouts
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
When you can get a squishy giant beer microbe...
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
I guess his home page content is not microscopic. 68.3K?
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.
Microbes would have to have developed some form of microbial aircraft or hot air balloons to get perspectives like those.
Looks like he can add bandwidth costs to that 5 million dollars.
...how a badly organized, hard to navigate website, can make its content seem so much worse.
Would that be the beginning of the mash, or the end of the mash? Technically, maltose is a sugar. And even if it's the beginning, I guess that means no beer with crystal malt in the mash?
I must drink beer. Beer is the mind-killer. Beer is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my beer. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. When the beer has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
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Is it pining for the fjords?
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."
MolecularExpressions.com has galleries full of images of ordinary materials under extraordinary magnification.
Now they can add magnification of a slashdoted server to their gallery!!!
Cheers,
RoadkillBunny
Anybody notice that looking at Bud Ice under that microscope thing shows nothing? That must be why it goes down so smooth...
You can see some info here, I have had these things for years. It's cool to see more info, it looks like the Guinness Stout would make a wild tie, if they don't already have one.
I currently have Scotch, Vodka and Light beer and since I haven't had to wear a tie on a daily basis in 5 years I probably wont be getting any more.
As far as the ties go, the Light Beer looks cool, but if it's time for drinks it Vodka, Scotch then Light Beer (not all in the same night).
I missed the original posting about this website, but I just have to say that it is definitely worth checking out if you're into science at all.
The stuff on DSP alone is really educational. (Watch out!)
njordEnd of the mash, but intended for corn or rye; whiskey IOW. You can work the yeast and increase the yield that way.
C|N>K
...but what IS it?
Consider the fact that all alcohol is yeast excrement. That means that when you drink beer, you're participating in the "circle of life" at a very fundamental level.
"I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid." -- Bishop 341-B
...Exhibit "A" from the Denver law suit...
how is it possible that the original budweiser budvar (czech, not that american horribble thing) is missing? it is like writing about text editors not mentioning emacs :o)
SHE does throw dice.
They did mention the site, however they didn't put in an href for it. Do you remember non-hyperlinked text?
To be more on-topic, they did at least have more of an option for the desktop pattern packages than Windows, which is commendable.
"The Ebenezer Scrooge of all holidays"
Well, here on the east coast of the US, (at this moment in time) is just about 11:30 on a Sunday night. The Timezones behind that are all fast asleep for the most part, and America is not far behind.
If I was still still drinking, I'd probably be passed out cold from the weekend by now.
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
...a method for increasing more um, creative, work from geeks...
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
Now *that's* some serious detox...
C|N>K
And truly the antidote to the daily grind.
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...why on earth would it take $5 million to get images of magnified beer?
Is it just me, or does the guiness look heavily laced?!
An Australian, a Kiwi and South African are in a bar one night having a beer.
All of a sudden the South African drinks his beer, throws his glass in the air, pulls out a gun shoots the glass to pieces. He says "In SethEfrika our glasses are so cheap that we don't need to drink from the same one twice".
The Kiwi (obviously impressed by this) drinks his beer throws his glass into the air, pulls out his gun and shoots the glass to pieces. He says "Wull mate, in Niw Zulland we have so much sand to make the glasses that we don't need to drink out of the same glass twice, either".
The Australian, cool as a Koala, picks up his beer and drinks it, throws his glass into the air, pulls out his gun and shoots the South African and the Kiwi. He says "In Australia we have so many damn South Africans and Kiwi's that we don't need to drink with the same ones twice".
This is so true, it's not even funny. Alcohol (in particular beer) is partly responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people every year. Yet everyone always looks the other way when this is brought up. I don't understand this. Not that alcohol should be outlawed, but something needs to done. Every night people die because some fucktard decided he wasn't too drunk to drive. This goes for anything that impairs your driving ability; alcohol is just the most predominant.
How is American beer like having sex in a canoe?
They're both fucking close to water.
If you smoke after sex, you're doing it too fast.
Still, isn't the point of any mash to convert starches into sugars, so the yeast have something to ferment? Thus, there'll always be sugar at the end (unless the masher screwed up and no conversion occured). Of course, you probably meant added sugar, but you didn't say that. :-)
Plus, there's plenty of whiskey made from malted barley as well as (and instead of) the grains you mentioned.
Am I the only one here who feels like they need a shower after seeing this?
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Is this the before or after its been consumed?
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Q: What does American beer and sex in a canoe have in common?
A: They're both fucking close to water.
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I was wondering if the different beers look different by chance or if you took several pictures of each beer that you'd be able to say "Of course, that's a Guiness/Bud Light/whatever."
OK, so now we know exactly what beer looks like before we consume it... now how about we take a look at what it looks like afterwards.
Of course, the photo gallery for any such research will inevitably contain unexpected photos of girls the researchers found attractive while they "prepared" their research materials...
So thats what my beloved beer looks like under magnification .. sweet ;)
"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?"
Won't American beer just look like water?
It is absolutely incomprehensible that there are
no entries for Belgian beer. I have tasted pretty
much all beers of the world, but the belgian
'Trappist' like beers are in a class of their
own, and you can have all the Pilsener beers
and be happy with them.
Also, the classification into essential categories
like top-fermenting and bottom-fermenting
would be more interesting than the classification
according to country.
Paai
I'm a little disappointed by the German beer selection. Those are all pretty exotic beers noone really drinks over here. Where are thie big ones? Like Radeberger, Krombacher or Hasseroder? Not even Wernesgruner?
The Czech beer selection is ok, but it is a shame that the Czech original Budweiser isn't in there. That is aBud that actually tastes like beer. And even many Germans claim it to be the best beer in the world. Ok, enough ranting.
Just because I can imagine doing a hippopotamus, doesn't mean I'd like to do it.
After intensive visual research, the scientists found the following.
Insertion of a miniature microphone yielded no conclusive results, although members of the team did claim to "someone" singing college fight songs in a very off-key manner.
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Yep, I meant added. That cheapo stuff makes one forgetful...
C|N>K
Well, it has been done in that several brewpubs do serve coffee beer and that the caffeine does remain in the beer. /.?
But patenting beer? Come on! Maybe if this were a Pfizer message board or something. But
Ah well...
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Did anyone happen to look a 'The Silicon Zoo' links on the Molecular Expressions site? They have some cool pictures of silicon "doodling" by chip designers. I know it's offtopic but it's on the same site.
So what the heck am I looking at? Are they all the same resolution, spectum, etc?
The images are stunning; the part of me which spent 4 years in physics at CMU would love an explanation without loosing a morning looking for it.
A canadian, an american, and an australian walk into a bar.
The bartender says: "what is this, some kind of joke?"
Ahh, the beer shits.
I live in Providence and often go to Trinity Brewhouse, they brew their own there and the beer is still 'alive' when you drink it. It's not paseurized or treated, it's heavy and creamy. And it gives you monster shits if you don't treat yourself right while drinking it.
Tuesday nights my friends and I go out for 'working-class rebellion' and drink ourselves silly until midnight. I've spent many a wednesday in the bathroom near my office giving birth to what must be yeasty-fungus-beer lobes.
I hope none of you think any less of me now. Back to Jaegermeister!
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