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    The Inventor Of The Light-Space Modulator Couldn't Let The Nazis Get Their Hands On It

    The Eye-Popping Moment When Human Life Begins

    The Microscopic Beauty of Photography's Smallest Subjects

    Software Recreates An Entire City from Tourist Photographs

    The Terrible Intoxicating Beauty Of The Ghost Orchid Returns To Florida

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    Image of joetato joetato
    10/20/09

    In reply to The Inventor Of The Light-Space Modulator Couldn't Let The Nazis Get Their Hands On It
    Too bad we can't have a motion clip. Sounds really cool. #art
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    Image of twDarkflame twDarkflame
    10/20/09

    In reply to The Inventor Of The Light-Space Modulator Couldn't Let The Nazis Get Their Hands On It
    So, wait, it dosnt do anything?
    Its just a fancy light fitting? #art
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    Image of capnrob capnrob
    10/20/09

    In reply to The Inventor Of The Light-Space Modulator Couldn't Let The Nazis Get Their Hands On It
    Man, doesn't that look *exactly* like it was built by that SF cover artist from ...um ... the fifties? Did a big chunk of those non-realistic covers with the geometric shapes?

    Gad, this would be a much more insightful comment if I could just remember his (or her) *name*. #art
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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    10/20/09

    In reply to The Inventor Of The Light-Space Modulator Couldn't Let The Nazis Get Their Hands On It


    No, no, no! You put it together wrong. It's supposed to look like this! #art
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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    10/20/09

    @bluehinter: Thank you for that, you have made my day! Interociter ftw! #art
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    Image of Rumtum Rumtum
    10/20/09

    @bluehinter: Yeah. Genius-boy couldn't figure out that Brak and his buds with the bulgy head creases were a little "odd," but he gets to boogaloo in the old freezy tubes with Faith Domergue. Life is just not fair. #art
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    Image of Indigen Indigen
    10/20/09

    @bluehinter: Lol. Normal View... Normal View... #art
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    10/20/09

    @Skunky: me too.one of my fave movies that i hope hollywood never evrr remakes. #art
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    10/20/09

    @gorehound: I think being on MST3K automatically disqualifies you for ever being remade, (though remaking old Ed Wood movies seems to have suddenly become popular) #art
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    Image of Althestane Althestane
    10/20/09

    In reply to The Inventor Of The Light-Space Modulator Couldn't Let The Nazis Get Their Hands On It
    Thank you, Bauhaus, for continuing to give the world beautiful objects for beautiful purposes, long after you had to close your doors. If I could, I would apologize for the dilution of the many concepts nurtured within your walls and summarily employed as bastardized absolutes for design which in turn led to the revolting child's tantrum that is post-modernism. But as a product of all that came after you, I can't. #art
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    Image of gods-n-clods gods-n-clods
    10/20/09

    @Althestane: (promoting the shit out of your comment bub, hear hear) #art
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    Image of TemporalSword TemporalSword
    10/20/09

    In reply to The Inventor Of The Light-Space Modulator Couldn't Let The Nazis Get Their Hands On It
    That Earth creature has stolen my modulator! #art
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    10/20/09

    @TemporalSword:
    This makes me very angry, very angry indeed. #art
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    10/20/09

    In reply to The Inventor Of The Light-Space Modulator Couldn't Let The Nazis Get Their Hands On It
    The Nazis would have ruled the world through Laser Floyd. #art
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    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    10/16/09

    In reply to The Eye-Popping Moment When Human Life Begins
    at first i was thinking, 'that cool blazey sun thing would look ultra hip as say, a 4x5 foot printed canvas on the wall...' than i read what it was... and than i knew that if i did it, people would ask what it was...than i would tell them... than she would ask if i was a scientist, i would say no, and she would look at me like a creepy date rapest, and leave....

    ...i'm doing it anyway.... #scienceart
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    Image of Makidian Makidian
    10/16/09

    In reply to The Eye-Popping Moment When Human Life Begins
    Everything starts in a glorious blaze, from the universe to life. It is just incredible. #scienceart
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    Image of Tomb: R.O.A.C.H. Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.
    10/16/09

    In reply to The Eye-Popping Moment When Human Life Begins
    Just imagen if those things had eyes to pop. #scienceart
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10/16/09

    In reply to The Eye-Popping Moment When Human Life Begins
    #2 is freakin awesome. It's like... mini-egg boilers. #scienceart
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    Image of pockifish pockifish
    10/16/09

    In reply to The Eye-Popping Moment When Human Life Begins
    if you like this kind of stuff (esp the journey from the making of a sperm or egg to a baby) you need to check out Lennart Nilsson's work. Not news, but certainly worth mentioning. A Swedish photographer who has produced so many gorgeous pictures, with microscopy as well as regular cameras. The anatomy ones are just stunning.

    [www.lennartnilsson.com]
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    crashedpc - unrein promoted this comment Edited by pockifish at 10/16/09 8:27 AM pockifish was starred pockifish was unstarred
    Image of RenRen RenRen
    10/16/09

    In reply to The Eye-Popping Moment When Human Life Begins
    Careful, Charlie Jane Anders, you don't want some folks to start a 1000-post discussion on whether or not life begins at the moment the sperm enters the egg. Some of them would rather wait for "life" to begin a good trimester or so after that, others only after birth. (I personally think the egg and sperm themselves are a form of human life, but that's just me.) #scienceart
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10/16/09

    @RenRen: I don't think there's anything in the text that would imply an opinion either way. Hopefully that's enough to stave off the wolves. Bark #scienceart
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    10/16/09

    @RenRen: you seem to have discounted the possiblity that someone both feels life begins at conception AND is perfectly ok with a first, second, or even a third trimester abortion. #scienceart
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    Image of RenRen RenRen
    10/16/09

    @tetracycloide: Uh-oh... You said the A word.
    @crashedpc - unrein: No, it was the title. #scienceart
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    10/16/09

    @RenRen: Yerp. You're right. *backs away from this whole mess* #scienceart
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    10/16/09

    @RenRen: "And" is all right ... You wouldn't get far not saying "and"! #scienceart
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    Image of Erda Erda
    10/16/09

    @RenRen: I think the whole question of whether "life" begins is rather irrelevant, just because, as you point out, sperm and egg cells are their own form of life, just like every cell in the human body is - but not necessarily "alive" in the way a baby is. "Life" is one of those things for which if you ask 10 people, you'll get 10 different answers, and thus it's misleading and disingenuous to draw a specific line (no matter where you draw it) between what constitutes "living" and "nonliving." People only try to do so because it's politically expedient for them; I don't bother because I think that's not really what these issues (abortion, birth control etc.) are about, anyway. #scienceart
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    Image of RenRen RenRen
    10/16/09

    @tetracycloide: A... A... An... And? #scienceart
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    Image of Vulcan Has No Moon Vulcan Has No Moon
    10/16/09

    @RenRen: Well, I know that spermatazoa and eggs are living cells before they combine into zygotes and I'm perfectly okay with abortion in the first, second, and third trimester....mostly because I know that only 1/4 of the eggs that are fertilized will implant in the uterus and become a pregnancy and of those that do implant in a woman's uterus 50% will wind up being miscarried in the first 6 weeks of the first trimester. Not all embryos were meant to be fetuses, not all fetuses were meant to become babies, and sadly not all babies grow up to be adults. Whether the termination of a pregnancy was the choice of an omnipotent super-being or the the choice of the woman, sometimes it's just not meant to be. I am a Jezebel and therefore have discussed conception, pregnancy, birth, and abortion whilst being civilized and rational many, many times. I'm sure the folks on I09 can do the same. #scienceart
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    Image of cadrina cadrina
    10/16/09

    In reply to The Eye-Popping Moment When Human Life Begins
    Is there any medical condition caused by two sperms entering the egg? what stops oters from entering after the first? #scienceart
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    10/16/09

    @cadrina: I'm no biologistician, but in my understanding once the egg accepts one of the sperm, it changes the make-up of its membrane to make it impermeable to other sperm cells through some sort of enzyme reaction. #scienceart
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    10/16/09

    @cadrina: Let's see what I can remember from developmental biology: I believe it's the cortical reaction that prevents polyspermy. It occurs when the sperm comes in contact with the egg's plasma membrane. The result of the reaction is that an extracellular layer of the egg is into modified into a fertilization membrane which lifts away any other sperm trying to enter the egg and prevents all other from entering. That's the slow block to polyspermy (there's a lot more details to it then that, but that's a basic outline). If polyspermy ever does occur it's instant death for the egg. #scienceart
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    10/16/09

    @ParryLost: I think that's right. At least from what I recall from my rapidly diminishing high school education memories. #scienceart
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    Image of reekon reekon
    10/16/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: Wait, I thought that's how fraternal twins happen... when two sperms somehow were able to enter at the same time and are both accepted by the egg.
    Hmm...this must be the reason I'm an IT engineer and not a doctor. :-P #scienceart
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    Image of DireWombat DireWombat
    10/16/09

    @reekon: Fraternal twins result from two sperm fertilizing two different eggs. #scienceart
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    Image of CSX321 CSX321
    10/16/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: In college I spent a semester working in a biochem research lab investigating the role of calcium in all that. I can't tell you much about it, though, because I was basically just a glorified dish washer. Although I did have to make some trips to a slaughterhouse to pick up "research materials." Fertility research? I'll leave it to your imagination what the materials were. #scienceart
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    10/16/09

    @reekon: Fraternal twins happen when two separate eggs are released during ovulation. Identical twins are when one fertilized egg (fertilized by one sperm) splits into two. #scienceart
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    10/16/09

    @DireWombat: Opps, replied before seeing your response - sorry about that. #scienceart
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    10/16/09

    @CSX321: I have an idea of what you went through - I spent a summer working at a salmon research station which dealt with reproduction. Although I dealt mostly with building an enclosure to video tape the salmon reproductive process (yes, it was fish porn). #scienceart
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10/06/09

    In reply to The Microscopic Beauty of Photography's Smallest Subjects
    Mmm... #4 looks like a snack I can get at Ranch99.
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    10/06/09

    @crashedpc - unrein: doesn't look like a snack you'd want to eat though
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    10/06/09

    @burlybax: "LOBSTER MUNCH"
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    10/06/09

    @crashedpc - unrein: Dude, they ALL look like a snack you can get at Ranch99.
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