Season's Greetings

[Michael Scally MD]

At the National Physical Laboratory ( ), where scientists have constructed the world’s smallest snowman by shooting a focused ion beam at nano-scale tin beads used in the correction of electron microscope astigmatism. The final product measures a ridiculous 10 m across — 1/5th the width of a human hair.

May everyone have a great holiday and good health!!!

 

[solo47]

And to all a good night...

Solo

 

[ironmanlives79]

lmao...the things people do from bordom... that is awesome though.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

Porch pirates stole a package from an engineer — so he created a trap using glitter and ‘fart spray’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...-so-he-created-trap-using-glitter-fart-spray/

Mark Rober’s muse was a package thief.

Two package thieves, to be exact, both of whom had made off with a delivery from his California porch one day in broad daylight, about seven months ago.

Indignant, Rober — a former NASA engineer who runs a popular YouTube channel documenting his many quirky science experiments — started thinking about how he could apprehend the porch pirates. Though he had caught the thieves on his security cameras, Rober said police had told him it was not worth their time to look into.

“So you also feel powerless. And I just felt like something needs to be done to take a stand against dishonest punks like this,” Rober said in a YouTube video posted Monday. “And then I was like, hold up.”

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[bigdeadweight]

Mix in some permanent glue as well and the thief has what they deserve

 

[Michael Scally MD]