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[–] Allero@lemmy.today 7 points 2 weeks ago

Just about everything can seem big when you have an electron microscope

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Skin kinda looks like dried up paint (I don't paint). Is this dryer than normal, or?

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 5 points 2 weeks ago

Apparently electron microscopes work in a vacuum. So this is a needle hole in skin, in a vacuum.

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

the 'paint flakes' are what fall off and become what dust is, so yeah I think it's kind of normal

[–] fox@hexbear.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

It's from a series Anne Weston at the Francis Crick Institute did. Scanning electron microscopy. The full series is pretty cool.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

Wonder what it looks like after I scratch it for 50 minutes straight because my pain receptors are bad and I won't stop till I see blood.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

It also happens to be just big enough for Trump his penis.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

Uh-huh.uh-huh. Yip yip yip yip yip

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Any hole's a goal

[–] RavenFellBlade@startrek.website 2 points 2 weeks ago

Looks like the hole they dragged the Brain Bug out of.

[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 2 weeks ago

...hmmmmmm...

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