A Microbe's-Eye View of Beer 177
fjordboy writes "After a hard days work and a couple of beers, don't we all really wonder what our draft would look like under thousands of times magnification? Maybe not, but after nine years of work and five million dollars, Michael Davidson of Florida State University has created a website of microscopic proportions that will satiate anyone's curiosity. His site, MolecularExpressions.com has galleries full of images of ordinary materials under extraordinary magnification. The list of materials includes beers from around the world, popular cocktails, snoopy and many more. The site has a wealth of images that are well worth a look. CNN has a brief description of the site and the work that went into it, but feel free to skip that and just gaze at an Irish favorite." Some pretty new galleries since the last time we mentioned it.
haven't i seen this before? (Score:1, Informative)
Obligatory mirror (Score:3, Informative)
What, no Stella Artois? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Oh no.. (Score:5, Informative)
B
Re:So it's a dupe... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:I hear... (Score:2, Informative)
Beck's (Score:2, Informative)
Octoberfest beer???
I guess the local breweries from Munich would be very angry if you could buy Beck's there...
It's like serving Bourbon at an Scottish Pub... it will not happen.
Extra Stout from SJG? (Score:2, Informative)
With that, they did choose the better of the two. More expensive, but better.
Re:Self-Organizing Systems? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Well sure, you can see it... (Score:3, Informative)
The organism excretes it as a waste product. That pretty much fulfills the definition.
"Do you call CO2 a human excrement?"
Actually, yes. Primarily through skin and lungs. Happily that, as well as our more commonly considered gasseous export, methane, is vented to the atmosphere and escapes our vicinity. Pretty much everything that comes out of yeasties gets stuck in solution. Of course, that's where we want it. We call it "the good stuff". You can't get to the top of the food chain by being too picky. Not knowing too much about it might help too. But it's too late for that now, isn't it?
At least now you have a come back next time someone quotes W.C. Fields about why he disliked drinking water (and so prefered booze).