Micro-crack in Steel through an electron microscope

bobide · 7 months

It should be noted that this image has been colorized as it is not possible to get a color image from an electron microscope.

Griime · 7 months

More amazing EM pictures!

Bignut_Squirrel · 7 months

Quick, someone repost it as "Grand Canyon tilt-shift"

TheImproviser · 7 months

Do you happen to know the scale of this?

panaflax · 7 months

just like beggar's canyon back home

Etab · 7 months

Those are balls.

Haasts_Eagle · 7 months

Mind boggling.

mankindislost · 7 months

What is this?

A Grand Canyon for ants?

Quo_Vadimus7 · 7 months

enhance to see nano-people on nano-donkeys taking a nano-tour.

TheEngine · 7 months

Why is there blue sky and clouds in the picture? It's throwing me off.

DancingWithKafka · 7 months

Fuck. I love science and shit.

shea241 · 7 months

Nice background. filter > render > clouds

Mark_Lincoln · 7 months

Life in a fractal universe.

eroome · 7 months

if that is for real, that is amazing! reminds me of the grand canyon!

Drunken_Economist · 7 months

I'd visit that on vacation

Moleman69 · 7 months

I like to think somewhere enormous creatures are looking at things like the grand canyon on Earth through their enormous microscopes and saying the same thing... Posting it to their enormous alien-reddit

emarkd · 7 months

Fantastic. Looks like a clay model.

AdventureIsland · 7 months

Havn't played wow in years but reminds me of durotar.

Speakcannotproperly · 7 months

GASP

s13rian · 7 months

Nice try, Grand Canyon

lucardo · 7 months

Just like beggar's canyon back home!

EatableTrich · 7 months

Less colored version for your convenience!

always_creating · 7 months

That looks just like our Grand Canyon! Wait...what if there is a tiny civilization that considers that crack THEIR Grand Canyon? Could being be looking at our Grand Canyon through an electron microscope and wonder if there is a tiny civilization who considers that THEIR Grand Canyon? Wait...

Maaaagill · 7 months

I could seriously look at these kind of pictures all day. The electron microscope pics of bugs are crazy - you see how wild compound eyes look, and how freaking hairy most bugs seem to be. So rad.

iggle_piggle · 7 months

Freaking beautiful.

icioula · 7 months

colorized image but very cool anyway !!

thinsoldier · 7 months

Are there any organisms small enough that if placed in this picture they would look like mountain climbers?

MinecraftHardon · 7 months

What is this?? A fault line for ANTS?

PNWd · 7 months

Chaos, how does it work?

-miguel- · 7 months

I only have a rudimentary knowledge of materials science, but are the layers colorized to show layers of ferrite and cementite?

PhilAB · 7 months

/Artists rendition

ironinjax · 7 months

This picture makes me feel insignificant. We are living in a tiny crack right now.

Wazowski · 7 months

Viewing this image will to more to misinform people than educate them. The colors, depth of field effect and background were added by an artist. The strata you can see isn't part of the material and definitely wasn't in the image captured by the microscope.

IndianaJwns · 7 months

Nice try, tilt shifted Grand Canyon

Tezdoll · 7 months

The universe is electric...

daveringstaff · 7 months

Rock Climber here. Must find shrink ray and climb this.

jdlyndon · 7 months

Fractal

tacotrucker · 7 months

Dat gap.

howunosnowflake · 7 months

Damn that's cool

GeneticYeti · 7 months

The level of intricacy in the universe never ceases to amaze me.

BetelgeuseSC · 7 months

Lies! We all know its the Grand Canyon.

iama_XXL · 7 months

I just wonder how big we are looking, like I realize this is a EM photo, but can that crack be seen with the naked eye? Interesting stuff regardless.

hellibot · 7 months

If only I had a micro-pipe for all of that micro-crack!

uberalles2 · 7 months

I went hiking there last year. Almost made it down to the Colorado river.

kabanaga · 7 months

TIL: The Grand Canyon is made of Steel...

perhapsanewusername · 7 months

That's gonna to concentrate some stresses, son

bashobt · 7 months

we must go deeper!

chadpatrick · 7 months

BS ... this is a screenshot of Durotar.

skraptastic · 7 months

I had a friend who worked at Napa Pipe in California. He spent 40+ hours per week inspecting new made pipe for micro cracks. It was years ago, I cant remember if it was xray, or electron microscope...it he looked at this all day long, his job was awesome!

iownachalkboard7 · 7 months

That... IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A2Aegis · 7 months

What if the Grand Canyon was a microcrack?

PoweredByMiniWheats · 7 months

This is in my biology book. It sincerely is a micro crack in steel.

Mcawesomeville · 7 months

wow thats pretty amazing like a mini landscape, to the bottom of the pile i go now!

tover · 7 months

funny how something that small can look like the grand f@£$%ing canyon

plazmamuffin · 7 months

Oh the thinks you can think...

whatamidoinghere78 · 7 months

Grand canyon rocks

gx1400 · 7 months

My first thought was a tilt-shift photo of the Grand Canyon

wheresmyname · 7 months

I remember feeling those cracks on my hammer and then I realized I couldn't really feel them because they are microscopic cracks.. I remember on my birthday my girlfriend of two days asked me if I had felt the earthquake. I said I didn't, and her immediate response was, "then why do you have a crack up your butt." I broke up with her a day later (not because of the joke) but I thought of that when I saw this. Good times brought up by what seems to be a irrelevant topic. Thank you for helping me bring up these memories :)

whisker_mistytits · 7 months

A humbling reminder of the recursiveness of nature.

vocabulator9000 · 7 months

I remember measuring stress fractures like this from a pipeline that had ruptured. Spending many hours with the SCEM and the bakelite oven over Xmas holidays. Thanks for the cool image. Mine were all B&W.

Rojan32 · 7 months

It looks like the path to Orgrimmar.

SerDelta · 7 months

The Grand Crackyon.

matthank · 7 months

Earlier today, it was a tilt-shift of the Grand Canyon. Same shot.

nitrorev · 7 months

this is why you don't drop carabiners or anything else that is made of metal and supports all your weight.

majormantastic · 7 months

This is bullshit. I slave my ass off for 40+ hours contact a week trying to get a degree in Materials Science and Metallurgy to have some jumped up photoshop junky try to turn my subject into something impressive!!! Bitch I look at metal under a microscope all day long and it is never that impressive. ಠ_ಠ

Lamelaser · 7 months

EMs are one not in color and two do not have skies above em

[deleted] · 7 months

Lo, though I walk through the valley of the micro-crack...

PenguinMonster · 7 months

Posted this on FB to see if anyone could guess what it was. Plan failed. I go to an engineering school. Within 5 minutes, someone commented on how they wen't over that in their materials class on this very day.

Damn!!!

existential_tits · 7 months

I just don't understand why someone would colorize it like this. The photo clearly shows goethite/hematite strata. Why? Also, the cloudy sky. Is it to give the idea that micro and macro scales are not so different, or are we just being trolled with a canyon photo?

lexissopro · 7 months

This would be a good argument against christians claiming that beautiful scenery can't be naturally made...

Mikeonourroof · 7 months

I am dubious to whether or not this is real. I'd have thought an SEM should be in focus all the way through, and it's obviously not a TEM. Also the angle seems unusual, mind you, I've only looked at biological samples with electron microscopy.

Verification please?

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