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Imagine a sand castle carved into one grain of sand. Tiny, huh? That's the point!
Using a microcsope and a laser carving device the sand sculptor can carve out intricately designed sand castles out of single grains of sand. Put on display under a large powerful magnifying glass for the ultimate
"ooohs" and "ahhhs" from family and friends.
Blasted Sand Busts
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[FarmerJohn, Apr 20 2005]
Stardust microchips
http://stardust.jpl...icrochip/index.html
(I am on chip#2) [Klaatu, Apr 21 2005]
Smallest sclupture...
http://news.bbc.co..../health/1493585.stm
...ever. 10µm long. Not a castle nor made of sand, but cool none-the-less. [st3f, Apr 22 2005]
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till some idiot treads on it. |
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For the claustro-castlephobic not. I'm off to the world's largest inhabited castle not. Tiniest bun. |
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Actually, I bet it would be pretty tread-resistant. |
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It would be placed in a clear box to be placed on a pedistal, museum style, so no one would be able to tread on it. Fear not! |
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I've seen the world's smallest paper airplanes (or so they claimed). Amazingly small, in glass cases with magnifying glasses set up. It was in the model airplane area of a place called the Nut Tree, which appropriately had a little airport (no, not that little). |
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I'm picturing this in a boardwalk-style amusement park on the beach. |
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I remember seeing an exhibit of intricate paintings painted on the heads of needles when I was a kid. It was set up exactly the way you described the tiny paper planes, [World]. They were pretty amazing. |
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Heh (+) The castle has been in my family for generations. |
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STEM/AFM. Make a single sandcastle molecule. |
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At the Fashion Valley Mall in San Diego, where the world's money goes to die, you can buy single grains of rice with names written on them. |
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I've also heard of an entire Bible that was one-inch square. |
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"Watch me write on rice!" vendors used to litter the streets of Las Vegas, too. |
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Using a bucket capacitor, and a spade connection on the laser, of course. |
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There are those "Your Name on a Grain of Rice!" booths here, too. You'll see 6 or 7 little tables advertising this on the same boardwalk that's not even a mile long. And you'll never see any customers near them. |
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[Bubba], Blake might have the world on a grain of sand, but did he have 13 croissants and a message board with lovely people to go with it? |
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yeah, Blake was a miserable old sod compared to our Mach. |
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hear hear [po] - sandcastles, worlds or even just regular grains of sand, we'd much rather spend some quality time with [Mach] than old 'Flakey Blakey' any day. |
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Aw, shucks. Y'all are just so sweet. |
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Since the smallest sculpture (a resin bull
made by focusing two lasers to solidify
it) (see link) is 10µm long and the
average grain of sand about 100µm,
you might be able to get a fair bit of
detail if you can find a way of etching it
without blowing it apart. |
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Plus there's a source for sculptures to adorn your castle. |
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