|
Hematite
Newbee



Registered: 05/04/07
Posts: 156
Loc: Wisconsin
Last seen: 11 years, 6 months
|
Mystery pic
#8890257 - 09/07/08 10:02 AM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
|
|
Anyone want to guess what this is?
Hints: it's natural, not human made. It's a false color image, with each color representing a different element. There are five colors. Blue is calcium.
Edited by Hematite (09/07/08 10:04 AM)
|
Minstrel
Man of Science



Registered: 03/15/05
Posts: 1,974
Loc: Hogtown
|
Re: Mystery pic [Re: Hematite]
#8890347 - 09/07/08 10:39 AM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
|
|
It would help to know what the other elements might be..... is that suppose to be part of the mystery too?
|
Seuss
Error: divide byzero



Registered: 04/27/01
Posts: 23,480
Loc: Caribbean
Last seen: 3 months, 8 days
|
Re: Mystery pic [Re: Hematite]
#8890760 - 09/07/08 12:40 PM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
|
|
Almost looks like a nerve cross section.
-------------------- Just another spore in the wind.
|
zouden
Neuroscientist


Registered: 11/12/07
Posts: 7,091
Loc: Australia
Last seen: 14 years, 7 months
|
Re: Mystery pic [Re: Hematite]
#8891414 - 09/07/08 03:22 PM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
|
|
Some kind of micro fossil?
-------------------- I know... that just the smallest part of the world belongs to me You know... I'm not a blind man but truth is the hardest thing to see
|
freeDOOM
Stranger then you



Registered: 07/28/08
Posts: 1,536
Loc: New York, USA
Last seen: 2 years, 4 months
|
Re: Mystery pic [Re: zouden]
#8891628 - 09/07/08 04:00 PM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
|
|
some sort of rock/mineral?
--------------------
|
Hematite
Newbee



Registered: 05/04/07
Posts: 156
Loc: Wisconsin
Last seen: 11 years, 6 months
|
Re: Mystery pic [Re: freeDOOM]
#8892710 - 09/07/08 07:30 PM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
|
|
Everyone is on the right track.
The other elements are iron and silicon (both shades of red), sulphur and uranium (different shades of green). I used additive (RGB) mixing.
Here's a higher resolution picture of the same thing, in B&W, where the shade is determined by density (more dense=white):
Edited by Hematite (09/07/08 07:30 PM)
|
zouden
Neuroscientist


Registered: 11/12/07
Posts: 7,091
Loc: Australia
Last seen: 14 years, 7 months
|
Re: Mystery pic [Re: Hematite]
#8894343 - 09/08/08 01:15 AM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
|
|
What kind of machine makes that image? Or will that give it away...
-------------------- I know... that just the smallest part of the world belongs to me You know... I'm not a blind man but truth is the hardest thing to see
|
Hematite
Newbee



Registered: 05/04/07
Posts: 156
Loc: Wisconsin
Last seen: 11 years, 6 months
|
Re: Mystery pic [Re: zouden]
#8894385 - 09/08/08 01:26 AM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
|
|
It's a scanning electron microscope in backscatter mode (BSE).
|
zouden
Neuroscientist


Registered: 11/12/07
Posts: 7,091
Loc: Australia
Last seen: 14 years, 7 months
|
Re: Mystery pic [Re: Hematite]
#8894423 - 09/08/08 01:38 AM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
|
|
Is the object of biological origin?
-------------------- I know... that just the smallest part of the world belongs to me You know... I'm not a blind man but truth is the hardest thing to see
|
Hematite
Newbee



Registered: 05/04/07
Posts: 156
Loc: Wisconsin
Last seen: 11 years, 6 months
|
Re: Mystery pic [Re: zouden]
#8895198 - 09/08/08 08:06 AM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
zouden said: Is the object of biological origin?
Partly...
|
Diploid
Cuban



Registered: 01/09/03
Posts: 19,274
Loc: Rabbit Hole
|
Re: Mystery pic [Re: Hematite]
#8895820 - 09/08/08 11:30 AM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
|
|
I've seen electron micrographs of prions that looked like that...
-------------------- Republican Values: 1) You can't get married to your spouse who is the same sex as you. 2) You can't have an abortion no matter how much you don't want a child. 3) You can't have a certain plant in your possession or you'll get locked up with a rapist and a murderer. 4) We need a smaller, less-intrusive government.
|
Hematite
Newbee



Registered: 05/04/07
Posts: 156
Loc: Wisconsin
Last seen: 11 years, 6 months
|
Re: Mystery pic [Re: Diploid]
#8896275 - 09/08/08 01:14 PM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
|
|
Not a prion. The round structures that are white in the first picture are natural but non-biological.
|
hoodbran
Dosser



Registered: 06/01/08
Posts: 1,570
Loc: Phloston Paradise
Last seen: 1 month, 14 days
|
Re: Mystery pic [Re: Hematite]
#8896328 - 09/08/08 01:24 PM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
|
|
cross section of shroom spore
-------------------- Not all drugs are good, Some are great.
|
Hematite
Newbee



Registered: 05/04/07
Posts: 156
Loc: Wisconsin
Last seen: 11 years, 6 months
|
Re: Mystery pic [Re: hoodbran]
#8896635 - 09/08/08 02:33 PM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
|
|
Getting colder now.
Suess has been the closest so far. Nerves, among other things, are involved, but there are no nerves in the picture.
Edited by Hematite (09/08/08 02:34 PM)
|
badchad
Mad Scientist

Registered: 03/02/05
Posts: 13,379
|
Re: Mystery pic [Re: Hematite]
#8896777 - 09/08/08 03:07 PM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
|
|
It's a plaque within a brain. Essentially a dead neuron.
-------------------- ...the whole experience is (and is as) a profound piece of knowledge. It is an indellible experience; it is forever known. I have known myself in a way I doubt I would have ever occurred except as it did. Smith, P. Bull. Menninger Clinic (1959) 23:20-27; p. 27. ...most subjects find the experience valuable, some find it frightening, and many say that is it uniquely lovely. Osmond, H. Annals, NY Acad Science (1957) 66:418-434; p.436
|
Seuss
Error: divide byzero



Registered: 04/27/01
Posts: 23,480
Loc: Caribbean
Last seen: 3 months, 8 days
|
Re: Mystery pic [Re: Hematite]
#8896778 - 09/08/08 03:07 PM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
|
|
Hmmm... a neurosecretory granule?
|
badchad
Mad Scientist

Registered: 03/02/05
Posts: 13,379
|
Re: Mystery pic [Re: Seuss]
#8896786 - 09/08/08 03:09 PM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
|
|
Yeah, I was gonna say they were vesicles filled with some type of neurotransmitter, but the OP said the spots were non-biological.
they also look like some type of protein within a cell that was immunolabeled.
-------------------- ...the whole experience is (and is as) a profound piece of knowledge. It is an indellible experience; it is forever known. I have known myself in a way I doubt I would have ever occurred except as it did. Smith, P. Bull. Menninger Clinic (1959) 23:20-27; p. 27. ...most subjects find the experience valuable, some find it frightening, and many say that is it uniquely lovely. Osmond, H. Annals, NY Acad Science (1957) 66:418-434; p.436
Edited by badchad (09/08/08 03:10 PM)
|
zouden
Neuroscientist


Registered: 11/12/07
Posts: 7,091
Loc: Australia
Last seen: 14 years, 7 months
|
Re: Mystery pic [Re: Hematite]
#8896801 - 09/08/08 03:13 PM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
|
|
Section of spinal cord?
-------------------- I know... that just the smallest part of the world belongs to me You know... I'm not a blind man but truth is the hardest thing to see
|
Hematite
Newbee



Registered: 05/04/07
Posts: 156
Loc: Wisconsin
Last seen: 11 years, 6 months
|
Re: Mystery pic [Re: zouden]
#8896919 - 09/08/08 03:39 PM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
|
|
The images show only the elements calcium, iron, sulphur, silicon, and uranium. Organic material, if present, would not be visible. No nerves or cells are visible.
Two more hints: 1. The object is of biological origin, but has been heavily modified by three non-biological processes. 2. The blue colored area is composed primarily of calcium phosphate of biological origin.
That's ten questions down, ten more to go.
Edited by Hematite (09/08/08 03:44 PM)
|
zouden
Neuroscientist


Registered: 11/12/07
Posts: 7,091
Loc: Australia
Last seen: 14 years, 7 months
|
Re: Mystery pic [Re: Hematite]
#8896924 - 09/08/08 03:42 PM (15 years, 8 months ago) |
|
|
Hmmm, okay I'm going back to my original guess of some kind of micro fossil. Like a fossilised algae cell.
-------------------- I know... that just the smallest part of the world belongs to me You know... I'm not a blind man but truth is the hardest thing to see
|
|