Cool Pictures IV: The Awesomeness is Volatile

[Borachio]

Fine. Aliens. Of the giant lizard variety?

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

That's...cool, I guess?

Anyway, this needs to be posted.

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[Agent327]

Glass manufacture dates back to 3500 BC so in theory the Egyptians might have had some kind of rudimentary microscope. You only need a small ball of glass after all. Who was that Dutch guy first used a microscope? His earliest ones were little more than that.

I don't see why those Egyptian drawings are necessarily representing mitosis, though.

1. Anthonie van Leeuwenhoek (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonie_van_Leeuwenhoek). The earliest known glass objects, of the mid third millennium BCE, were beads. You are forgetting that glass manufacture in itself isn't enough. Some knowledge of optics is also needed, i.e. essential.

2. Nothing to do with mitosis at all. All that is depicted are humanoid forms.

 

[Meteor Man]

That's...cool, I guess?

Anyway, this needs to be posted.

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That was fairly amazing and took me half an hour to read it all.

 

[Meteor Man]

Glass manufacture dates back to 3500 BC so in theory the Egyptians might have had some kind of rudimentary microscope. You only need a small ball of glass after all. Who was that Dutch guy first used a microscope? His earliest ones were little more than that.

I don't see why those Egyptian drawings are necessarily representing mitosis, though.

What? No. Not a microscope of that magnitude, certainly.

EDIT: Dammit. Double post.

To make this legal:

 

[cardgame]

Those are creepy

 

[Arakhor]

Very creepy.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Taken from Greenland.

 

[holy king]

 

[Borachio]

Saddleback caterpillar - toxic.

 

[Radio Noer]

And

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

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[Cheezy the Wiz]

Saddleback caterpillar - toxic.

Venomous. Rubbed against one once while walking through a corn field. Ouchies. For days, ouchies.

 

[Meteor Man]

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That is awesome.

And here's my favorite animal, the glaucus atlanticus:

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[Joecoolyo]

And here's my favorite animal, the glaucus atlanticus:

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Looks like something out of Spore

 

[holy king]

 

[Borachio]

 

[Glassfan]

Snowy Britain?

 

[holy king]

yep.

 

[Borachio]

1. Anthonie van Leeuwenhoek (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonie_van_Leeuwenhoek). The earliest known glass objects, of the mid third millennium BCE, were beads. You are forgetting that glass manufacture in itself isn't enough. Some knowledge of optics is also needed, i.e. essential.

There's some magnification observable through a water droplet.

Those ancients were pretty clever people. All in all. So it's not beyond the bounds of possibility that they'd have some notions of very small stuff. Though, of course, I've yet to see evidence that they did so.