A man was able to engrave a microscopic message on the edge of a razor blade using only his bare hands. Graham Short is a 64-year-old copper and steel engraver from the UK.
This doesn’t seem too interesting...until you hear about his obsession! Graham has a thing for doing miniature engravings, typically on a microscopic scale! His most recent feat on the blade is the phrase “Nothing is impossible” carved one tenth of a millimeter wide on the edge of a razor blade! He must’ve really believed these words, because the painstaking process took him 150 attempts and the words can only be seen with a microscope at 400X magnification! Not only that, but he was only able to work from midnight to 5:30 AM to reduce vibrations from traffic outside his home! He prepares for each engraving session by reducing his heartbeat to 20 beats per minute and relaxing his body for an hour and a half beforehand! Paper cuts - Rolls on the Behance Network. 12 Things You'll Wish You'd Never Seen Under a Microscope.
If you shrink yourself down to microscopic size, you're suddenly living in a completely alien world.
Whatever you're picturing, perhaps based on your experience from Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, is way, way off. At that scale, everything is unimaginable horror. WARNING: THESE PHOTOS ARE UNSETTLING AND SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED. At normal size ... Before we show you the close-up, let's ease you into it with a regular picture. They're vile little creatures, born into corpses and garbage, and they feed on things that we would rather see buried. But close up ... What the hell, nature? We're not looking to offend members of any one religion, but we think all of them can agree that this proves God is freaking insane.
You can't see them. You find them in freshwater, so if you went swimming in a pond and a bit of water went into your mouth, maybe you swallowed one. Is ... is that its eyes? Man, screw that thing. You don't need a picture. ... Whoa, that thing is pissed off. Oh, bullshit. Yes, that's real. Prayer. Snowflakes Up Close: A Small, Fragile World. If you’re one of those people who likes to ponder things while looking out a frosty window on a cold winter day, these pictures will clear up one of those long standing wonders: each snowflake really IS unique.
Some look like roman columns, others circuit boards or spaceships. Taken under high magnification using a microscope, these images bring a fragile and beautiful world into view. See Also HARMFUL VIRUSES MADE OF BEAUTIFUL GLASS They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? Source: akirathedon.com Known in some circles as the most amazing man in the universe, he once saved an entire family of muskrats from a sinking, fire engulfed steamboat while recovering from two broken arms relating to a botched no-chute wingsuit landing in North Korea.