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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
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
If you're religishitty, KILL YOURSELF!
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
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.
...how a badly organized, hard to navigate website, can make its content seem so much worse.
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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Hey! It's still up! Last time it failed around post 30.
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."
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).
...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
...a method for increasing more um, creative, work from geeks...
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
...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".
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.
It's Australian for Fosters!
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Eat the Path.
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."
"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?