Every time I drop a slide, teeming with life, in my bleach jar, I feel pangs of remorse!
This is as it should be as our specimens are distant kin:
a. We are composed of the same structural unit, the eukaryotic cell,
b. We share some identical biochemical processes, ATP metabolism,
c. We share stimulus-response behavior.
I think that it is the behavior, the various taxes, that an organism selects, that confer survival and optimize functioning, that evoke my emotional response, now recognizing that I am destroying all.
A World in a Drop of Water
A. The Size
After compression with a coverglass, the environment of the specimens I am observing is the area of my coverglass, 22^2 mm or
484 mm (1,000 μm) = 484,000 μm. Since I am observing at 400 TM,
400(484,000) = 160,000,000 μm
B. The Complexity
As an example of the elegance of complexity (There is an aesthetic component here), I am selecting the ultra-structure of the cilium. I think that it is the knowledge of this elegance that also draws our emotions. But a knowledge of this elegance cannot be achieved without sacrificing specimens.
Bon Voyage: Good-bye My Pretties!
Bon Voyage: Good-bye My Pretties!
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Aller Anfang ist schwer.
Aller Anfang ist schwer.
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Re: Bon Voyage: Good-bye My Pretties!
My compliments!