{"id":692056,"date":"2010-03-15T19:00:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T23:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=13010"},"modified":"2010-03-15T19:00:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T23:00:57","slug":"make-it-so-tiny-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/692056","title":{"rendered":"Make it so tiny | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This.<\/p>\n<p>Is. <\/p>\n<p>AWESOME!!!<\/p>\n<p><center><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.zyvexlabs.com\/EIPBNuG\/2003MicroGraph.html#Ion\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2010\/03\/nano_enterprise.jpg?resize=519%2C521\" alt=\"nano_enterprise\" title=\"nano_enterprise\" width=\"519\" height=\"521\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13009\"\/><\/a><\/center><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>That is a model of the USS Enterprise-D from Star Trek: The Next Generation, <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.zyvexlabs.com\/EIPBNuG\/2003MicroGraph.html#Ion\">created using an ion beam that guides vaporized chemicals and deposits them into a given shape<\/a>. The amazing thing is that this model of the <del>Big<\/del> Little-E is only 8.8 microns (millionths of a meter) long! For comparison, a human hair is about 50-100 microns across. This image is magnified <em>5000 times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if it comes with a tiny Wil Wheaton, too?<\/p>\n<p><em>Tip o&#8217; the VISOR to <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/space\/1_10_9_Scale_Model_Of_The_Starship_Enterprise_pic\">Digg<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Pwy7K2BivOP1Fnz9ssPFgMFwaks\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Pwy7K2BivOP1Fnz9ssPFgMFwaks\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Pwy7K2BivOP1Fnz9ssPFgMFwaks\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Pwy7K2BivOP1Fnz9ssPFgMFwaks\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/iqOsPAvB4wk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/EPmje3WrQ2U\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This. Is. AWESOME!!! That is a model of the USS Enterprise-D from Star Trek: The Next Generation, created using an ion beam that guides vaporized chemicals and deposits them into a given shape. The amazing thing is that this model of the Big Little-E is only 8.8 microns (millionths of a meter) long! For comparison, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2U2c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}