 You don't need to be an 'investor' to invest in Singletrack: 6 days left: 95% of target - Find out more
Like this one!
[img] 
[/img]
More [url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24078176 ]here[/url]
Looks like a Doctor Who monster circa 1983
Amazing and a bit disturbing, ill have to go see the exhibition when I comes near the midlands
Scanning electron microscopes (I used to use one many years ago) are great things to use. We used to put all sorts in to have a look one in our spare time.
I like pictures from the other end of the scale...
[img] 
[/img]
(Gas & dust cloud, shot by Hubble)
that invertebrate reminds me of a hoover bag.
I found this intruiging: gears created by nature:
[img] 
[/img]
[img] 
[/img]
More details:
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/09/this-insect-has-the-only-mechanical-gears-ever-found-in-nature/
That little creature at the top is an amazing little thing.
It's a tardigrade.
This is what wiki has to Say,"tardigrades can withstand temperatures from just above absolute zero to well above the boiling point of water, pressures about 6 times stronger than pressures found in the deepest ocean trenches, ionizing radiation at doses hundreds of times higher than would kill a person, and the vacuum of outer space. They can go without food or water for more than 10 years, drying out to the point where they are 3% or less water, only to rehydrate, forage, and reproduce".
Personally I think they should be in the coolest person thread.
I find this, and the technology that made it possible, simply incredible.
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot ]Pale blue dot.[/url]
[img] 
[/img]
How on Earth (or in interstellar space)can something built in the era of the Austin Allegro, four years before the first Sinclair Z81, still be working ?
How on Earth (or in interstellar space)can something built in the era of the Austin Allegro, four years before the first Sinclair Z81, still be working ?
LOL Brilliant!
What does a tardigrade do? Other than look like the talent on offer in Staines in a Friday night..
It looks like binners in a onesie.
The Darth Vader 'see/speak no evil' embryos are absolutely fascinating
[img] 
[/img]
Water bears were on the Octonauts the other day - cbeebies finest. Some good technical consultants on that show - they have some obscure and interesting creatures for Cptn Barnacles and crew to deal with.