This could be awesome: Aspex, a company that makes scanning electron microscopes for those among us who need them, says you can send in stuff and they’ll put up pictures of it. Pictures they took through their scanning electron microscope. Ever wondered what coffee looks like up close? How about dustballs? Bananas?
Well, send ‘em on in. If they can take Pharyngula’s traffic, they can take ours too. Follow the guidelines, please. You do have to fill out forms and stuff. They’ll take a snap with their desktop SEM and put it up in good time.
Update: ASPEX tells me that what they’re actually promoting (and taking pictures with) is a desktop SEM (the PSEM eXpress to be precise). As in, a scanning electon microscope that goes on your desktop. I have no problem with that.
I don’t need a scanning electron microscope, but I do need to know what exactly is in my dog’s butt hair.
So I keep telling my roommate that there is something growing the sheets from the various girls he has over, the food he eats in bed, and lots of other different things that he does (that are not website appropriate). I want to send it part of his sheets or something of his to prove his disgustingness.
Eww! That’s hilarious. If I still had one, I’d send in one of the dishes my old roommate had “cleaned.” I ALWAYS had to rewash dishes.
Hm…Always thought a close-up look of a burned CD would be interesting to see.
1000100111010100110
mmmm…binary.
Sweet. I am going to see what boogers look like up close.
Interesting – might be a nice learning/teaching tool for science classes.
I wonder what they would do if I sent in semen? lol
gross
I don’t know if I want to see things up close.. yuck
This is ridiculously cooL!
This is neat! i just wouldn’t want to touch the stuff that people send in hahah
Hmm wonder what they’d find in a hamburger from McDonalds or something…
I am sending acai berry