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Via PZ Myers, a baker’s dozen of snowflake microphotographs at the New Scientist.
Via the ever popular “I forget where I saw it first”, Archaeology magazine’s Top 10 Discoveries of 2008.
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…were it not for the fact that billions upon billions of the little devils are bearing down on me with malicious intent, I would unabashedly rave at the fascinating beauty and remarkable geometry that these microphotographs demonstrate.
Maybe I will have a different perspective if the winter storm warning doesn’t pan out…
The front is stalled just North of me and we are experiencing warm and humid weather. When the front finally moves, I might see some down here, because there is more than enough moisture for it when the cold air moves in.
We would get the cylinders in Fairbanks which lead to a condition known as ice fog: you couldn’t see a foot in front of you, but the sky was clear and bright when you looked up – very weird.
Wow. Image #8 (“Needle snowflake”) looks like a double woodwind instrument of some sort.
Our friend Catherine used to take lots of photomicrographs, some very artsy, but eventually sold the microscope to pay for some other piece of equipment. If I find any of them on her site, I’ll post a link. (These days, a detached retina has put a real crimp in her photographic activities. She’s awaiting her fourth surgery, and feeling pretty discouraged about it.)