Can ya tell wut it iz yut?
 

Many years ago on a board far, far, away one the posters was a keen photographer and started doing a quiz of everyday objects seen in close up, or from odd angles like BigV has done here.
As he ran out of steam I was inspired to use my powers only for good and do much the same thing with an electron microscope.

Since BigV's thread I have tried to dig out the files to post up here for your amusement, but so far have drawn a blank, which is odd because we never delete anything, but they have cryptic names to reduce cheating.

I just noticed that the original image is sitting here on this computer, so here it is. At this moment in time I don't have the succeedeing pictures getting lower in magniification, showing more of the object so I might give clues with sufficient inducement.:p

A penny. How come you have so many EM pics?

An aspirin tablet.

And what was that other thing you posted a week or two before? It was all fuzzy in the middle.

It must be somethig to do with those big machine thingies he plays with all day... ;)

Something made of metal.

A breadbox (well, *my* breadbox is made of metal, anyway).

No guesses, just to tell you that I smiled at the Rolf ref.
Good on ya.

Nerd alert!!! lol! (nerds are hot)

It is a hair strand?

:D
It's you or DanaC I don't think he was big in OZ.

So, Merc is in the county, Labrat is in the Ball Park, but it's not a penny.

Elspode, our Breadbox is also metal, but it's got nothing to do with this quiz.

You don't have an SEM in the garage? Neither do I, but I know people who do :3_eyes:.
I just became President of the Michigan Microscopy society.

Lot of shrinkage in that snowy state?

I'm with LabRat on the coin guess.

A milled piece of jewlery.

It's a coin, but can you tell which one, it's going to be a lot easier for US dwellars ;)

What is the picture of specifically

The top of Washington's head on a quarter.

Sweet, Beest. I'd love to chat more about microscopy sometime. My specialty is confocal, with just a dash of two-photon for good measure.

BTW, the exact origin of that pic is the top of the eagles head, and bottom of the N in "UNUM" on the back of an old school US quarter. The divot is the eagles eye.

More more!!!

Anyone who doesn't see why I'd be gay for labrat is blind.
:)
Heh.

Ding Ding Ding, spot on

You can be guest speaker at our meeting. We cover Biological and materials imaging, but I'm materials nad don't know Jack about confocal.

Maybe in the morning....:zzz:

It's an 1872... no 1873, Mathews and Latimore, steam driven, lateral drive, combination sawmill and Spotted Owl scarecrow.

hehe yep :D

If you all don't know that's code for
'rusty logging machine'

What kind of rusty logging machine? Sawmill? Logpuller?

I found another photo. It's author dosn't know either.

Author's Caption under photo

http://www.portlandground.com/columb...eamEng3368.jpg
http://www.portlandground.com/archiv...mill_steam.php

caption says:
The only thing I'm sure of is that it is rusting. However my best guess is that this is an old steam engine used to power lumber milling equipment.

He has a lot of nice pictures of the Portland area, but what in hell is the Ta Wa Tree?