retroremakes
March 2nd, 2010, 18:40
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/03/500x_record_groove.jpg (http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/03/record_groove.jpg)So what on earth is this? Some dried-up riverbed somewhere? A black and white shot from the Mars Rover? The real answer might leave you spinning:
What you're looking at is a single groove in a vinyl record, magnified 1,000x. Those lumpy parts? Dust.
The image was captured under an electron microscope (http://gizmodo.com/tag/electronmicroscope/) by Chris Supranowitz, a researcher at the University of Rochester. There's no word on what specific record we're looking at, but I'm going to assume that a picture as badass as this one belongs to Led Zeppelin IV.
By contrast, here's a shot of a boring ol' CD magnified 20,000x:
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/03/500x_cd_pits.jpg (http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/03/cd_pits.jpg)A little too disease-like for my taste. Probably something by O-Town. [SynthGear (http://www.synthgear.com/2010/audio-gear/record-grooves-electron-microscope/) via The Daily What (http://www.thedw.us)]
http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?p=1 (http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?p=1)http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2226http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=NiMXzm19RRY:EAgnDu8CGwY:H0mrP-F8Qgo) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=NiMXzm19RRY:EAgnDu8CGwY:yIl2AUoC8zA) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=NiMXzm19RRY:EAgnDu8CGwY:D7DqB2pKExk</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=NiMXzm19RRY:EAgnDu8CGwY:D7DqB2pKExk) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=NiMXzm19RRY:EAgnDu8CGwY:V_sGLiPBpWU</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=NiMXzm19RRY:EAgnDu8CGwY:V_sGLiPBpWU)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/NiMXzm19RRY
More... (http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/NiMXzm19RRY/what-is-this)
What you're looking at is a single groove in a vinyl record, magnified 1,000x. Those lumpy parts? Dust.
The image was captured under an electron microscope (http://gizmodo.com/tag/electronmicroscope/) by Chris Supranowitz, a researcher at the University of Rochester. There's no word on what specific record we're looking at, but I'm going to assume that a picture as badass as this one belongs to Led Zeppelin IV.
By contrast, here's a shot of a boring ol' CD magnified 20,000x:
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/03/500x_cd_pits.jpg (http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/03/cd_pits.jpg)A little too disease-like for my taste. Probably something by O-Town. [SynthGear (http://www.synthgear.com/2010/audio-gear/record-grooves-electron-microscope/) via The Daily What (http://www.thedw.us)]
http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?p=1 (http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?p=1)http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2226http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=NiMXzm19RRY:EAgnDu8CGwY:H0mrP-F8Qgo) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=NiMXzm19RRY:EAgnDu8CGwY:yIl2AUoC8zA) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=NiMXzm19RRY:EAgnDu8CGwY:D7DqB2pKExk</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=NiMXzm19RRY:EAgnDu8CGwY:D7DqB2pKExk) http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=NiMXzm19RRY:EAgnDu8CGwY:V_sGLiPBpWU</img> (http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=NiMXzm19RRY:EAgnDu8CGwY:V_sGLiPBpWU)
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/NiMXzm19RRY
More... (http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/NiMXzm19RRY/what-is-this)