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.
So when one looks *reeeeally* close... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So when one looks *reeeeally* close... (Score:4, Interesting)
No. When you looks really close, everything looks like it does [edge.org] on acid.
Re:So when one looks *reeeeally* close... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So when one looks *reeeeally* close... (Score:3, Funny)
Litany of Beer (Score:5, Funny)
reference [goats.com]
Re:Litany of Beer (Score:2)
Tasty yet morally ambiguous (Score:1)
I hear... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I hear... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:I hear... (Score:1)
Re:I hear... (Score:2)
My wife still calls that a fart.
And she's still not amused.
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Re:Oh no.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Oh no.. (Score:5, Informative)
B
Eh?? (Score:5, Funny)
After a night of Guinness (Score:5, Funny)
Re:After a night of Guinness (Score:5, Funny)
Beer Shits (Score:2)
I live in Providence and often go to Trinity Brewhouse, they brew their own there and the beer is still 'alive' when you drink it. It's not paseurized or treated, it's heavy and creamy. And it gives you monster shits if you don't treat yourself right while drinking it.
Tuesday nights my friends and I go out for 'working-class rebellion' and drink ourselves silly until midnight. I've spent many a wednesday in the bathroom near my office giving birth to what must be yeasty-fungus-beer lob
Re:After a night of Guinness (Score:1)
All a geek really needs.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:All a geek really needs.... (Score:5, Funny)
Can I patent caffeinated beer? (Score:4, Funny)
In other news.... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:In more other news.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:In other news.... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:In other news.... (Score:1)
Re:In other news.... (Score:5, Funny)
In other news, "Originality and creativity surrender"
Sound familiar?
Re:In other news.... (Score:3, Interesting)
Twice and cured twice.
haven't i seen this before? (Score:1, Informative)
funny bar joke (Score:5, Funny)
Well the man takes a long pull of his beer and looks around and asks the bartender who those group of people at the end of the bar were. It appeared they were not drinking.
The bartender said with a scowl on his face, oh them, they are high school teachers.
The man asks why did that matter?
The bartender says they are so cheap they are waiting for happy hour.
Re:funny bar joke (Score:5, Funny)
After he finishes them, he orders another two. The barman mentions that by buying two at a time they'll both be getting warm by the end, and suggests that he just bring the second over to the guy when he's almost finished the first.
"Oh no," says the Irish man. "You see, I have to drink them like that. Many years ago my brother and I used to both sit down for a couple of pints everyday after work. Now that I've moved away, I drink this way so as to remember drinking with my brother, and my brother does the same each day, too."
The barman is impressed with this mans love for his brother, and serves up the two drinks.
For months the man comes in every day and performs this ritual. However one day, he orders just the one pint with a tear in his eye.
The barman is shocked, but gives him the one.
"I'm sorry about your loss," says the barman.
"What are you talking about?"
"Your brother," says the barman. "I assumed by only ordering one pint, and the sorrowful look on your face that your brother has passed away."
"Oh that," says the Irish man. "No, it's just that I've had to give up my drinking."
Re:funny bar joke - one for the aussie /.'ers (Score:5, Funny)
All of a sudden the South African drinks his beer, throws his glass in the air, pulls out a gun shoots the glass to pieces. He says "In SethEfrika our glasses are so cheap that we don't need to drink from the same one twice".
The Kiwi (obviously impressed by this) drinks his beer throws his glass into the air, pulls out his gun and shoots the glass to pieces. He says "Wull mate, in Niw Zulland we have so much sand to make the glasses that we don't need to drink out of the same glass twice, either".
The Australian, cool as a Koala, picks up his beer and drinks it, throws his glass into the air, pulls out his gun and shoots the South African and the Kiwi. He says "In Australia we have so many damn South Africans and Kiwi's that we don't need to drink with the same ones twice".
Re:funny bar joke (Score:4, Funny)
What, no Stella Artois? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:What, no Stella Artois? (Score:1)
Re:What, no Stella Artois? (Score:1)
Intel QX3 (Score:2, Interesting)
Guiness (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Guiness (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Guiness (Score:1)
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Doug
American beer pictures indistinguishable (Score:4, Funny)
Re:American beer pictures indistinguishable (Score:1)
Is it bad when your urine the next morning is darker then the beer you were drinking??
American Beer Joke (Score:1)
A: They're both fucking close to water.
beer imaged at miniscule dimensions... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:beer imaged at miniscule dimensions... (Score:4, Insightful)
However, if it was put that way to the public it probably wouldn't raise those millions, so they will often put it differently. When it comes to things like taking pictures at a "micro-miniscule" scale, it seems likely to me that the methods of magnification need research, and even after implementation need to be compared for relative benefits and weaknesses in different situations. So this research may not be as useless as it first appears.
Another thing: some research has no practicality at all. Other research initially has none, but develops it later (non-Euclidean geometry). It's difficult to distinguish between the two ahead of time.
Zoom into everyday objects (Score:4, Interesting)
This site [citesciences.fr] is great for zooming in on everyday objects
no beer, but check out the tooth
Self-Organizing Systems? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Self-Organizing Systems? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Self-Organizing Systems? (Score:5, Informative)
Guinness is overrated (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Guinness is overrated (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Guinness is overrated (Score:2)
Re:Guinness is overrated (Score:2, Interesting)
Why magnify... (Score:1)
Home page a bit long? (Score:2)
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.
Not really microbe's-eye (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Not really microbe's-eye (Score:1)
Costs (Score:1)
Its amazing... (Score:4, Insightful)
Extra Stout from SJG? (Score:2, Informative)
With that, they did choose the better of the two. More expensive, but better.
Slashdoted server (Score:1, Funny)
Now they can add magnification of a slashdoted server to their gallery!!!
Bud Ice (Score:5, Funny)
I have some of these ties... (Score:4, Funny)
I currently have Scotch, Vodka and Light beer and since I haven't had to wear a tie on a daily basis in 5 years I probably wont be getting any more.
As far as the ties go, the Light Beer looks cool, but if it's time for drinks it Vodka, Scotch then Light Beer (not all in the same night).
Re:I have some of these ties... (Score:2)
Have to say it.... (Score:1)
I missed the original posting about this website, but I just have to say that it is definitely worth checking out if you're into science at all.
The stuff on DSP alone is really educational. (Watch out!)
njordWell sure, you can see it... (Score:5, Interesting)
Consider the fact that all alcohol is yeast excrement. That means that when you drink beer, you're participating in the "circle of life" at a very fundamental level.
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
Next Gallery Feature... (Score:1)
best beer missing (Score:1)
Most interesting drunk story... (Score:1)
Now *that's* some serious detox...
Re:Most interesting drunk story... (Score:2)
Rasputin [alexanderpalace.org] always was a mean drunk.
I dont get it.. (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:I dont get it.. (Score:1)
Is it just beer? (Score:2, Funny)
American beer (Score:5, Funny)
They're both fucking close to water.
A Windwos .exe screensaver? (Score:2)
Am I the only one here who feels like they need a shower after seeing this?
technicolour yawn (Score:2)
Who wants to see to McD's burgers? (Score:2)
Pretty Squiggley Lines... (Score:3, Funny)
~UP
Reproducible? (Score:4, Interesting)
New research proposal (Score:2)
Of course, the photo gallery for any such research will inevitably contain unexpected photos of girls the researchers found attractive while they "prepared" their research materials...
American beer (Score:4, Funny)
Won't American beer just look like water?
Re:American beer (Score:2)
Beer was once the only water around safe for drinking. Makes me wonder if it came in grades, like gasoline. Low-octane stuff to drink all day, and the good shit at night
Re:American beer (Score:2)
Source: The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright (C) 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Re:American beer (Score:2)
I figure if it's okay for you to base your opinion on one American dictionary, I can base my opinion on one British one.
A Microbe's _Reaction_ to beer (Score:2)
Insertion of a miniature microphone yielded no conclusive results, although members of the team did claim to "someone" singing college fight songs in a very off-key manner.
Re:CNN needs to learn what a hyperlink is (Score:2)
Re:CNN needs to learn what a hyperlink is (Score:1)
They did mention the site, however they didn't put in an href for it. Do you remember non-hyperlinked text?
To be more on-topic, they did at least have more of an option for the desktop pattern packages than Windows, which is commendable.
Obligatory mirror (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Slashdotting comming soon (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Slashdotting comming soon (Score:2)
If I was still still drinking, I'd probably be passed out cold from the weekend by now.
Re:So it's a dupe... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Makes me wonder... (Score:2)
Re:Makes me wonder... (Score:1)
Re:Makes me wonder... (Score:1)
Still, isn't the point of any mash to convert starches into sugars, so the yeast have something to ferment? Thus, there'll always be sugar at the end (unless the masher screwed up and no conversion occured). Of course, you probably meant added sugar, but you didn't say that. :-)
Plus, there's plenty of whiskey made from malted barley as well as (and instead of) the grains you mentioned.
Re:pah. (Score:4, Funny)
MOD PARENT UP (Score:1, Insightful)