Bon Voyage: Good-bye My Pretties!

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Bon Voyage: Good-bye My Pretties!

#1 Post by linuxusr » Tue Nov 16, 2021 3:14 pm

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.

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Aller Anfang ist schwer.

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Re: Bon Voyage: Good-bye My Pretties!

#2 Post by DonSchaeffer » Thu Feb 01, 2024 3:45 pm

My compliments!

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