Microscopic fibers coil together – photo cred. Aizenberg/Harvard. click for more.
What at first resembles a sea anemone clasping two pearls is really a micrometer-scale construct created through a new technique devised at Harvard University.
To make these objects, materials science professor Joanna Aizenberg, applied math professor L. Mahadevan, and colleagues fabricate an array of hairlike, epoxy fibers poking up from a substrate, which they then submerge in a liquid such as ethanol or tolulene. As the liquid evaporates, capillary forces cause the flexible hairs to clump and then twist together.
The ropelike structures formed can themselves twine with other ropes. “The process is similar to the formation of dreadlocks” from wet, curly hair, Aizenberg explains.
Sea anemone clasping pearls?
The above photo/excerpt came from Chemical & Engineering News.
Even at the microscopic level, His Noodliness is everywhere!
RAmen!
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:D
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We are blessed by The Flying Spaghetti Monster with Science!!!!
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Arrrgh, it be photographic evidence of Our Noodly Master. What other religion has a genuine photograph of its deity?
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This be the most clear evidence that the FSM created the world!
Ramen!
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Nano-noodles!
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Truly, how can anybody refute this evidence of His Noodly Almightyness??
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That settles it.
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AND… his noodlyness even combed his tendrils for the pic. I like a god with pride (but not so much that he feels the need to smote a lot).
May Pesto be upon you.
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I saw this and I found the almighty FSM. THIS IS EVIDENCE HE EXISTS. If anyone tries to dispute me i will suicide meatball them.
I’m so happy and enlightened that i now know the truth IM CRYING. omfsm. FSM PRAISE YOU!!!
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mmmmmm. ethanol!
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Not much of a god if he can be replicated in a labratory.
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Not much of a comment if you can’t spell laboratory.
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Replicated, but never duplicated…there is but one FSM, and this is proof of his existence! I’ve never seen microfibers form themselves into a replication of the Zombie Jew or the Bearded Sky-Daddy.
Sauce be upon His Noodly Worshipfulness. RAmen.
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Very interesting topic!
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