Dec 4 2009Impressive: The World's Smallest Snowman
This is the world's smallest snowman (at 0.01mm), not including the one I just made to beat it. Mine is a tenth the size and has more detail including a real carrot nose. Pfft, science -- science ain't got shit on magic! Back me up, Frosty.
...this minuscule model -- about a fifth the width of a human hair -- is not made out of snow. It's constructed of two tiny tin beads that are usually used to calibrate an electron microscope, and welded together with platinum.
It's built by David Cox, a nanotech expert at the Quantum Detection Group of Britain's National Physical Laboratory.The remarkable flourish of his smiling snowman is its little happy face, carved into the top orb using a focused ion beam.
Focused ion beam? What is this, the future? Regardless, a focus ion beam doesn't even COMPARE to a beam of focused, um, magic particles. Which I can create from a single flourish of my wand penis. You know how many urinals I've exploded just shaking myself dry. Tens.
Reader Comments
1. toot - December 4, 2009 5:46 PM
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2. tn11 - December 4, 2009 5:48 PM
wow.... I wonder how much all that cost to build... not the tin but the platinum and the use of the focused ion beam... Its not much platinum but still...
3. LoveDuck - December 4, 2009 6:00 PM
But, it's not technically a snowman :(. It just looks like one. That's false advertising!
4. Leonidas - December 4, 2009 6:05 PM
@2: given the microscopic size of this thing, and the fact that the price of platinum plummeted recently together with the auto industry, I'd say this thing cost not more than $0.02 in materials (spending half your life studying to be a nanotech expert, and then building a nano-snowman, is of course priceless).
5. Profound - December 4, 2009 6:05 PM
it's technically a tin man. just sayin..
6. tn11 - December 4, 2009 6:35 PM
@4 Ok i agree with you that the price of the platinum would be minuscule, but what about the focused ion beam? I really can't image they are all that common, and rare things tend to be costly....
7. naas - December 4, 2009 6:51 PM
@4 well said
8. hasabrain - December 4, 2009 7:13 PM
but it's not a snowman ...
9. Robot - December 4, 2009 7:29 PM
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11. Ciao - December 4, 2009 7:53 PM
tin shaped snow man, will throw tin balls @ you >:D
12. Someone has to say it - December 4, 2009 8:33 PM
platinum?1?
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13. Hambone - December 4, 2009 9:04 PM
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15. asian sensation - December 4, 2009 9:17 PM
it might be shaped like a snowman, but its not a snowman if its not made of snow
16. Calibee - December 4, 2009 9:23 PM
His happy face makes me warm inside
17. SkateFiend - December 4, 2009 9:38 PM
HA! Just saw that on the news!
18. rad to the power of me - December 4, 2009 10:54 PM
@6 ya know... it's probably not his. I'm going to guess it belongs to the Quantum Detection Group of Britain's National Physical Laboratory and it probably wasn't made for this purpose....it's just a cool way of showing what it can do.....besides kill us all
@14 you do
19. Leo @ What The Food - December 4, 2009 11:06 PM
Ah wow, thats such an ugly snowman (tinman); what kind of snoman doesnt have twig arms and a carrot nose, i'm disappointed =*(
20. naas - December 5, 2009 12:45 AM
for whatever reason someone had to blow off his right leg.... just sayin man, he was just a snowman
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23. Jaded Icon - December 6, 2009 7:44 AM
Finally!!! A real application based on nano-technology. Moving in the right direction folks!! Course......still waiting for nano-tech to give me awesome armor......
24. Big fish - December 6, 2009 1:39 PM
don't be so stupid, thats a photoshop snowman.
25. Aaron - December 7, 2009 10:59 AM
Now they need to make a microscopic storm trooper battling a T-Rex for the ultamate in bad-assery
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