you know, i was about to post this, I did EXACTLY the same thing today lol

my dad works as a pathologist on the nation health service, and as such, steals me my slides and cover slips, and recently, a nice collection of stains

meh, you got better shots than I did lol

in a tun they are pretty darn amazing things. bit boring to look at, but great fun to try and destroy (which is allmsot imposible)

life will go on, vive la water bears! yeah, they say that if the world went nuclear and america launched all its nukes (america can destroy the world 3 times over with its nuclear arms, and GW still persists on making more :roll: ) that only cockroaches would survive. well we microscopists know that...

oooh, thats interesting to know, thanks Tom.

In that case I found an archaeic one the other day it was very dark brown indeed, and I didnt get my normally wonderful colour show with a darkfeild condenser either.

never a good sign, the worst thing ever is being shown photos o fwhat you did the night before

Thanks Salden, I was rather pleased with it

hmmm, well how much would it cost to send a big cake to Pennsylvania, and how long would it take, and would it go off before it got there? let me see... too much, too long, yes probably thats a no on the cake for you :P but you can have a photo of the yule log I baked for christmas http://www.photom...

as the title suggests, have you ever built or used something on a microscope or camera that you made with your own hands. I made my own darkfeild, not hard. you need a filter carrier under your condenser, and a spare ground glass filter to go in, then take opaque black card, and cut a circle 15 mm a...

no hangover fortuantely, I was drinking vodka and apple juice, gets you drunk, but no nasty headaches in the morning :D New years looks to be the same as last years, leave the house at mid-day New years eve, and come back on the 3rd or 4th :D oh, and I am a Quaker, not quite Amish, but I make good c...

yeah, I have found them in lichen too, they have turned up in the middle of the ocean, a few living on a floatingbit of algea for example, they are extremphiles to the max!

got the video link eventually! i edited my post with it in now.

Lovely shot Ken, this really shows the diversity of just 1 species/genus

these can grow quite large, I have seen one at least 25mm long :O

I was soaking a big clump of moss in a tray of pond water, and just diving in with my hands when AHHHH a large one of those swam out from under the moss, Im nto a squeamish guy but this made me poop myself.

Christmas, what better to do than grab a bit of moss from the windowsill and bung it under the microscope when you havea free 30 minutes, and what better to see than a wonderful new tardigrade species I havent seen before. I havent got any photos, but there is a video I have uploaded. This is narate...

lovely christmas present for me to enjoy... later today

got to go to grans for lunch, but by the looks of the photos (and the sounds of the responses) I think it will be brilliant to watch

hope everyone had a great christmas and didnt get too drunk! (I know I did, on both counts)

rudolph the red eyed cyclops is currently on route to the north pole... at a speed of 20 um/s , he is predicted to get there in 2034