Time For Some Mind Blowing

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A bee, sputter coated in gold for use in a scanning electron microscope.  From Wiki-

"Conductive coating – an ultrathin coating of electrically conducting material, deposited either by high vacuum evaporation or by low vacuum sputter coating of the sample. This is done to prevent the accumulation of static electric fields at the specimen due to the electron irradiation required during imaging. The coating materials include gold, gold/palladium, platinum, tungsten, graphite, etc".


The first human to turn insects into precious objects was Daedalus. 


Spider


Flea



Black Ant


Spider



Natural Microcrystal Coating Of A Living Insect


Citrus Mite, Digital Color


Butterfly Proboscis


https://www.jewelry-tutorials.com/casting-insects-in-metal.html

pity this busy monster, manunkind,

not. Progress is a comfortable disease:
your victim (death and life safely beyond)

plays with the bigness of his littleness
—- electrons deify one razorblade
into a mountainrange; lenses extend
unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish
returns on its unself.
                         A world of made
is not a world of born —- pity poor flesh

and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this
fine specimen of hypermagical

ultraomnipotence. We doctors know

a hopeless case if —- listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door; let's go

e. e. cummings


Ernst August Friederich Ruska 1906 - 1988
Credited with the invention of the electron microscope, he built the first one in 1933.  Nobel Prize in Physics, 1988.

But-

    ' Several scientists worked simultaneously on the electron microscope in the early 1930's, and the race for recognition was close. Rheinhold Ruedenberg, another German, actually filed a patent application in Germany 10 days before Dr. Ruska presented a technical paper on the subject. Dr. Ruska was a graduate student at the time.
     Dr. Ruedenberg, who was Jewish, was denied a patent by German authorities. As Nazi persecution intensified, he fled to the United States. Later, RCA claimed that its scientists had invented the electron microscope, but Dr. Ruedenberg sued the company and was eventually granted the United States patent for the invention'.  From the New York Times obituary. 


Rheinhold Ruedenberg, 1883 - 1961

https://www.bookofdaystales.com/tag/reinhold-rudenberg/


-electrons deify one razorblade
into a mountainrange

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