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Thursday February 9th 2012

Nano Trek – Enterprise Model only 1/10 the width of a human hair

That is a model of the USS Enterprise-D (NCC-1701D to be specific!) from Star Trek: The Next Generation, created using an ion beam that guides vaporized chemicals and deposits them into a given shape. This model is only 8.8 microns (millionths of a meter) long. A human hair is about 50-100 microns across. This image is magnified 5000 times.

Pretty Amazing….

Enterprise D - Nano Scale

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