 shaustin
Male, 18-29, Canada
 143 Posts
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Wednesday, November 09, 2011 6:26:56 PM
saw this on mushrooms last weekend, thought it was a video |
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 duffytoler
Male, 40-49, Midwest US
5220 Posts
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Sunday, November 06, 2011 3:11:18 AM
>> Dust Colorized 22 Million Times [Pic]
Fixed. |
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 angelo0317
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
335 Posts
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Friday, November 04, 2011 7:59:58 PM
No offense, but since when were people so concerned about the color od dust? 0_0 |
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 ExtraCredit
Male, 50-59, Midwest US
435 Posts
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Friday, November 04, 2011 7:12:47 PM
WTF is that little green monster!? |
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 Kalon
Male, 13-17, Midwest US
370 Posts
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Friday, November 04, 2011 6:00:02 PM
DON'T BE DUMB
Light microscopes are only able to see THROUGH things. Solid and non-translucent objects are only black silhouettes. Secondly, the picture shows depth, which cannot be seen in a light microscope. Everything seen there is shown by a scanning electron microscope. ALL SEM images it portrays everything in black and white (only show shades) because the object is covered in a thin layer of gold. All colors you see in SEM pictures of viruses and proteins, in this case dust, are digitally colored to show different materials.
I do acknowledge that dust is most likely not made up of all grey particles but this post is only about the shape, NOT THE COLOR. If it is, then they are wrong. Thank you to the few who are too well informed to think this is what color dust is. It worries me most days out of the week that people can be so uninformed.
-Yours Truly
A Concerned American |
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 Phanthom_
Female, 18-29, Europe
59 Posts
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Friday, November 04, 2011 8:59:45 AM
From the microcosmos to the macrocosmos <3 |
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 Bottleofrum
Male, 18-29, Western US
164 Posts
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Thursday, November 03, 2011 11:29:42 PM
fudge yea!!!! this is what i live for!!!!!!!! |
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 tleking536
Male, 30-39, Midwest US
71 Posts
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Thursday, November 03, 2011 8:54:48 PM
I want to jump in there and bounce around and slide. WEEEEE!!!!!!!! |
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 robosnitz
Male, 40-49, Eastern US
2752 Posts
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Thursday, November 03, 2011 4:44:07 PM
Witchcraft!!!!! |
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 sbeelz
Male, 30-39, Western US
2860 Posts
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Thursday, November 03, 2011 4:42:02 PM
@Isobel- dust is not necessarily gray. It is, as this picture suggests, mutlicolored. It is made up of many different microscopic objects, including clothing fibers, hair, dead skin cells, and pollen. A small wool fiber from a blue sweater will be blue. a grain of yellow pollen will be yellow. A single mushroom spore from a purple sample of spores will be purple. If you used an optical magnification device to look at a sample of dust, you would be able to see the various colors of the objects within it- they would not appear uniformly gray. |
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sbeelz
Male, 30-39, Western US
2860 Posts
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Thursday, November 03, 2011 4:35:38 PM
@Khronnus - Rubbish? Really? You're right, a scanning electron microscope (like the one that produced this image) cannot produce color images. It can only produce a picture representing the detailed surface contours of a sample. However, It's common practice to color-code different objects in an electron micrograph to make it easier to distinguish between them.
Or was that a joke that I just missed upon first reading (because the image is of dust- rubbish- ha ha!) |
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 bordo
Male, 50-59, Western US
373 Posts
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Thursday, November 03, 2011 4:34:16 PM
Aside from the evil green octopusoid, it looks like a pretty happy place. |
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 PringleMan
Female, 13-17, Canada
1364 Posts
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Thursday, November 03, 2011 2:37:58 PM
it's like they're having a party |
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 Squidbush
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
496 Posts
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Thursday, November 03, 2011 1:49:04 PM
The background at the upper left is the color of the entire picture before the false color was added. |
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 Khronnus
Male, 18-29, Europe
622 Posts
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Thursday, November 03, 2011 1:28:36 PM
You don't really see colour at all at this magnification. The colours been added. I'd argue the whole image is rubbish to be fair. |
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 inversegrav
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
711 Posts
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Thursday, November 03, 2011 1:23:34 PM
just think. you inhale billions of those a day. |
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 Mantistador
Male, 18-29, Western US
2205 Posts
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Thursday, November 03, 2011 10:53:35 AM
ok guys, for your next challenge... detangle this dust |
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 nayrbarr
Male, 13-17, Europe
350 Posts
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Thursday, November 03, 2011 10:50:23 AM
You should probably have put "False colour image" in the description, for the people who don't know how electron microscopes work. |
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 Foote
Male, 18-29, Southern US
48 Posts
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Thursday, November 03, 2011 10:28:39 AM
Of course color was added, this is a GLORIFIED image of dust. It is possible to have all these different colors in some dust; if you wear a lot of bright clothes. And I suppose if you could view it with the naked eye you could distinguish the color-- however dust is grey from out pov because its so many small samples of other colors weaved together at different consistencies over a very small space. Thus-- it's grey too us. And it's grey to the microscope too; the color is added where it would be. Though they were probably keen to up the virbancy. |
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 Flibmeister
Female, 18-29, Europe
840 Posts
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Thursday, November 03, 2011 10:18:45 AM
pwetty! |
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 funnehkitteh
Male, 18-29, Europe
468 Posts
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Thursday, November 03, 2011 10:16:43 AM
@to-my-last-statement, sorry isobel, didn't see the quoting  |
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funnehkitteh
Male, 18-29, Europe
468 Posts
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Thursday, November 03, 2011 10:15:14 AM
@isobel, remember that all primary colour put together make black, plus dust is very small and our eyes can't pick up the colours individually. but i do think it's enhanced (colourwise) |
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 MrPeabody
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
1439 Posts
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Thursday, November 03, 2011 10:11:16 AM
It's fairy dust, that's why it is rainbow colored. |
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 Isobel
Female, 18-29, Europe
248 Posts
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Thursday, November 03, 2011 10:00:29 AM
"If that isn't coloured in, then why is dust just grey?"
The picture looks like it's taken with a scanning electron microscope. The technique can't "see" colors (since it detects scattered electrons, not photons), so the pics are colored in to create more contrast.
Dust is still gray. |
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snakecharmer
Male, 18-29, Southern US
321 Posts
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Thursday, November 03, 2011 9:47:51 AM
@Evil_Eye: Go to the grocery store and buy some 'rainbow' ice cream (with all the different colors), let it melt and then mix it together. Or, look at your milk after a bowl of Fruity Pebbles TM. |
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