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Hello fellow Far Side fans!
About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.
The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side
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electron microscopes usually operate in a vacuum. If you put organic stuff in there without properly treating the sample, it will damage the equipment
Oh wow. Didn't know that. I saw a kidney biopsy in an electron microscope before but I never really learned how they worked because I figured I'd never work with one.
They're super cool! The reason for the vacuum is that electrons are much more likely to scatter in atmosphere than photons, so you want as little air present in the chamber as possible. Also many microscopes generate their electron beams with a heated tungsten filament (which is soo expensive), so iirc the vacuum prevents it from burning up quickly.
Electron miscroscopes often have a "low vacuum" setting for when samples can't be subjected to such a high vacuum. Usually you need some training before anyone will let you use their electron microscopes.
Wow thanks for the information. An electron microscope has to be the coolest microscope. The images I've seen were always interesting
If they're in vacuum, they probably are pretty cool! Other than that tungsten filament that other commenter mentioned, apparently.
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