Comments on: Nanoscale snowman http://boingboing.net/2009/12/10/nanoscale-snowman.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Fri, 24 May 2013 09:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: placemat http://boingboing.net/2009/12/10/nanoscale-snowman.html#comment-662535 placemat Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-662535 You don't think a cure for cancer might be aided by our ability to manipulate very small things? Maybe the snowman should have been frowning, to show how serious research is. :( You don’t think a cure for cancer might be aided by our ability to manipulate very small things? Maybe the snowman should have been frowning, to show how serious research is. :(

]]> By: hhype http://boingboing.net/2009/12/10/nanoscale-snowman.html#comment-662031 hhype Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-662031 Thank you, jere7my, for pointing out that "nano" doesn't apply here. Using the criteria here, I am a nanoscale person, I just happen to be 1.8 billion nm tall. I remember when everything tiny didn't have nano tacked onto it. Michael Smith , perhaps on mercury you could get tin snowfall. Thank you, jere7my, for pointing out that “nano” doesn’t apply here. Using the criteria here, I am a nanoscale person, I just happen to be 1.8 billion nm tall. I remember when everything tiny didn’t have nano tacked onto it. Michael Smith , perhaps on mercury you could get tin snowfall.

]]> By: MadMolecule http://boingboing.net/2009/12/10/nanoscale-snowman.html#comment-662054 MadMolecule Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-662054 If there were a print-quality version of this available, I'd totally make it my Christmas card. If there were a print-quality version of this available, I’d totally make it my Christmas card.

]]> By: AnthonyC http://boingboing.net/2009/12/10/nanoscale-snowman.html#comment-662080 AnthonyC Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-662080 "perhaps on mercury you could get tin snowfall" There was a report a few months ago about an exoplanet so hot it rained rock. “perhaps on mercury you could get tin snowfall”

There was a report a few months ago about an exoplanet so hot it rained rock.

]]> By: cmacis http://boingboing.net/2009/12/10/nanoscale-snowman.html#comment-662107 cmacis Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-662107 And the cost to the lab was... And the cost to the lab was…

]]> By: jere7my http://boingboing.net/2009/12/10/nanoscale-snowman.html#comment-662374 jere7my Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-662374 Bazilisk, most animal cells are about 10-30µm across, so this snowman is about the size of an animal cell. (MadMolecule is correct, too — red blood cells are smaller than the average cell.) Here's a picture of some euglena (a smallish microorganism) with 20µm (the height of the snowman) conveniently marked: http://www.lifesciences.napier.ac.uk/smaefiles/catchment/benhaar-euglena.jpg Bazilisk, most animal cells are about 10-30µm across, so this snowman is about the size of an animal cell. (MadMolecule is correct, too — red blood cells are smaller than the average cell.)

Here’s a picture of some euglena (a smallish microorganism) with 20µm (the height of the snowman) conveniently marked:

http://www.lifesciences.napier.ac.uk/smaefiles/catchment/benhaar-euglena.jpg

]]> By: misterjuju http://boingboing.net/2009/12/10/nanoscale-snowman.html#comment-661899 misterjuju Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-661899 Beautiful!!! Now, make one Calvin & Hobbs style ;) Beautiful!!!
Now, make one Calvin & Hobbs style ;)

]]> By: joeposts http://boingboing.net/2009/12/10/nanoscale-snowman.html#comment-661904 joeposts Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-661904 It's so cute. Just look at it! It’s so cute. Just look at it!

]]> By: jere7my http://boingboing.net/2009/12/10/nanoscale-snowman.html#comment-661905 jere7my Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-661905 Isn't this a microscale snowman, Dr. O? The smallest thing on there is almost a thousand nm across. Isn’t this a microscale snowman, Dr. O? The smallest thing on there is almost a thousand nm across.

]]> By: Bazilisk http://boingboing.net/2009/12/10/nanoscale-snowman.html#comment-662161 Bazilisk Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-662161 Can somebody with more knowledge of microscopic things than I, compare this to the size of something else- compared to the size of an animal cell, or a virus, or bacterium or something? Can somebody with more knowledge of microscopic things than I, compare this to the size of something else- compared to the size of an animal cell, or a virus, or bacterium or something?

]]> By: benjamin_sachs http://boingboing.net/2009/12/10/nanoscale-snowman.html#comment-661907 benjamin_sachs Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-661907 I for one welcome our new nanoscale snowman overlords. I for one welcome our new nanoscale snowman overlords.

]]> By: Michael Smith http://boingboing.net/2009/12/10/nanoscale-snowman.html#comment-661910 Michael Smith Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-661910 But its not made of snow. But its not made of snow.

]]> By: sf http://boingboing.net/2009/12/10/nanoscale-snowman.html#comment-661918 sf Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-661918 Sure beats finding a cancer cure. Sure beats finding a cancer cure.

]]> By: arkizzle / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2009/12/10/nanoscale-snowman.html#comment-661925 arkizzle / Moderator Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-661925 SF, how you coming along with that? Through med school yet? SF, how you coming along with that? Through med school yet?

]]> By: LeFunk http://boingboing.net/2009/12/10/nanoscale-snowman.html#comment-661930 LeFunk Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-661930 Cute! I would not not be afraid of grey goo if it would consist of these fellas. Cute! I would not not be afraid of grey goo if it would consist of these fellas.

]]> By: arkizzle / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2009/12/10/nanoscale-snowman.html#comment-662960 arkizzle / Moderator Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-662960 Placemat, <i>Serious</i> win. Placemat,

Serious win.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/12/10/nanoscale-snowman.html#comment-661943 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-661943 Um... wouldn't this in fact be a tin man? Um… wouldn’t this in fact be a tin man?

]]> By: joeposts http://boingboing.net/2009/12/10/nanoscale-snowman.html#comment-662217 joeposts Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-662217 It's a tinman, then. :p It’s a tinman, then. :p

]]> By: phisrow http://boingboing.net/2009/12/10/nanoscale-snowman.html#comment-661971 phisrow Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-661971 Even if the multiplied every 20 minutes and were VERYVERYHUNGRY? Even if the multiplied every 20 minutes and were VERYVERYHUNGRY?

]]> By: MadMolecule http://boingboing.net/2009/12/10/nanoscale-snowman.html#comment-662263 MadMolecule Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-662263 As near as I can figure, the head of the snowman is about twice the diameter of a red blood cell. But I'm no nanoscientist either. As near as I can figure, the head of the snowman is about twice the diameter of a red blood cell. But I’m no nanoscientist either.

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