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minus-squareGregor@gregtech.eulinkfedilinkarrow-up22arrow-down1·7 days agoSomeone explain the joke pwease
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up91·7 days agoIt’s an electron microscope of a violin built with individual atoms, as in “I will play the smallest violin in sympathy”
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 days agoDid they actually do this? That still looks like it would be a hell of a lot of “individual atoms” Do we have 3D atom printers? Is that a thing?
minus-squarephotonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 days agoThe scale shows it being 20 microns in width, so it’s still pretty big, relative to individual atoms. A micron is 10^-6 meters while the width of a hydrogen atom is about 10^-10 meters.
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 days agoMakes sense that the scale is wrong, because somebody on DeviantArt made it in Blender/Photoshop
minus-squarephotonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 days agoMakes sense, because I’ve never seen a SEM image like that… I thought it could’ve been an older model
minus-squareWalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up30·7 days agoElectron microscope of the worlds smallest violin. A way of mocking other’s problems by pretending to pretend to care.
minus-squareMcdolan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·7 days agoIt appears to be the worlds tiniest violin.
minus-squareIheartcheese@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·7 days agoFurther explanation of the joke
Someone explain the joke pwease
It’s an electron microscope of a violin built with individual atoms, as in “I will play the smallest violin in sympathy”
Did they actually do this? That still looks like it would be a hell of a lot of “individual atoms”
Do we have 3D atom printers? Is that a thing?
The scale shows it being 20 microns in width, so it’s still pretty big, relative to individual atoms. A micron is 10^-6 meters while the width of a hydrogen atom is about 10^-10 meters.
Makes sense that the scale is wrong, because somebody on DeviantArt made it in Blender/Photoshop
Makes sense, because I’ve never seen a SEM image like that… I thought it could’ve been an older model
Electron microscope of the worlds smallest violin. A way of mocking other’s problems by pretending to pretend to care.
It appears to be the worlds tiniest violin.
Further explanation of the joke