World's smallest snowman

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Spacecadet replied

4 December 2009, 16:02
Originally posted by stingman123 View Post

It doesn't offend me any more....

Have you stopped f**king?
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stingman123 replied

4 December 2009, 16:00
Originally posted by Churchill View Post

Because "Worlds smallest little fat f**ker" may have offended some...

It doesn't offend me any more....
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Churchill replied

4 December 2009, 15:50
Originally posted by cailin maith View Post

So whys it called a snowman then?

Because "Worlds smallest little fat f**ker" may have offended some...
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DimPrawn replied

4 December 2009, 15:48
I've made the world's smallest icecream out of an atom of hydrogen.
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Spacecadet replied

4 December 2009, 15:46
Originally posted by Churchill View Post

It's not made of snow!

Stop trying to confuse the issue with science!
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cailin maith replied

4 December 2009, 15:43
Originally posted by Churchill View Post

It's not made of snow!

So whys it called a snowman then?
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Churchill replied

4 December 2009, 15:41
Originally posted by Spacecadet View Post

Don't worry fellow forum members

I've already sent this link to the BBC to complain that a national institution are behaving in an outragously sexist manner by using the term Snowman when they should have called it a Snowperson

It's not made of snow!
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Spacecadet replied

4 December 2009, 15:39
Don't worry fellow forum members

I've already sent this link to the BBC to complain that a national institution are behaving in an outragously sexist manner by using the term Snowman when they should have called it a Snowperson
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Moscow Mule replied

4 December 2009, 15:27
Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post

What are those strange growths on his chin?

Buckyballs.
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Mich the Tester replied

4 December 2009, 15:16
What are those strange growths on his chin?
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DimPrawn replied

4 December 2009, 15:13
Is it made of snow?
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VectraMan started a topic World's smallest snowman

4 December 2009, 15:13
World's smallest snowman

The snowman is 10 µm across, 1/5th the width of a human hair.

The snowman was made from two tin beads used to calibrate electron microscope astigmatism. The eyes and smile were milled using a focused ion beam, and the nose, which is under 1 µm wide (or 0.001 mm), is ion beam deposited platinum.

A nanomanipulation system was used to assemble the parts 'by hand' and platinum deposition was used to weld all elements together. The snowman is mounted on a silicon cantilever from an atomic force microscope whose sharp tip 'feels' surfaces creating topographic surveys at almost atomic scales.

http://www.npl.co.uk/educate-explore/christmas/

And they didn't even need a consensus.
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