Now I know why watching Trek made my blood pressure rise.
Hey, y’know what would go well with this? Antipasto. HAHAHAHAHA!
Anyway, this one certainly looks like more of a meal than the Tiny-E. And it’s weird: the secondary hull looks like a Shuttle external tank. Life imitates art imitates life.
Tip o’ the meat grinder to BABloggee cturner301 and MyFoodLooksFunny.
This.
Is.
AWESOME!!!
That is a model of the USS Enterprise-D from Star Trek: The Next Generation, created using an ion beam that guides vaporized chemicals and deposits them into a given shape. The amazing thing is that this model of the Big Little-E is only 8.8 microns (millionths of a meter) long! For comparison, a human hair is about 50-100 microns across. This image is magnified 5000 times.
I wonder if it comes with a tiny Wil Wheaton, too?
Tip o’ the VISOR to Digg.
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The original BA site (with the Moon Hoax debunking, movie reviews, and all that) can be found here.
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