Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Monday, November 15, 2010
Thursday, November 11, 2010
The World's Biggest Airplane
THIS AIROPLANE WAS AT THE NIAGARA FALLS AIRPORT RECENTLY (TWICE) TO LOAD COMPRESSORS TO FLY DIRECTLY TO SAUDI ARABIA
32 wheels! -- The World's Biggest Airplane, the Russian Antonov 225.
Attached pics are of the Russian behemoth when it came into Medford ,
OR , to pick up two Sikorsky fire fighting helicopters to take overseas --
it cost $1,000,000 to transport them.
It is amazing something this huge can stay in the air.
The Wright brothers would never have dreamed it.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Amazing Electron Microscope Shots
Amazing Scanning Electron Microscope Pictures
All these pictures are from the book ' Microcosmos', created by Brandon Brill from London. This book includes many scanning electron microscope (SEM) images of insects, human body parts and household items. These are the most amazing images of what is too small to see with the naked eye.
01 — A wood or heathland Ant, Formica fusca, holding a microchip
02 — The surface of an Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory silicon microchip
03 — Eyelash hairs growing from the surface of human skin
04 — The surface of a strawberry
05 — Bacteria on the surface of a human tongue
06 — Human sperm (spermatozoa), the male sex cells
07 — The nylon hooks and loops of velcro
08 — Household dust which includes long hairs such as cat fur, twisted synthetic and woolen fibers, serrated insect scales, a pollen grain, plant and insect remains
09 —The weave of a nylon stocking
10 — The end of the tongue (proboscis) of a hummingbird hawkmoth
11 — The head of a mosquito
13 — The eight eyes (two groups of four) on the head of a Mexican red-kneed tarantula
15 — Cigarette paper
16 — The corroded surface of a rusty metal nail
17 — The head of a Romanesco cauliflower
18 — The fungus Aspergillus fumigatus
19 — Mushrooms spores
20 — A clutch of unidentified butterfly eggs on a raspberry plant
21 — Fimbriae of a Fallopian tube
22 — A daisy bud
23 — Calcium phosphate crystal
24 — The shell of a Foraminiferan
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