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.
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They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it? – Jeanette Winterson
Source: akirathedon.com
wow
Amazing!
Just amazing!
Wow. I had heard about snow crystals, but never seen them like that.
Makes you wonder how these patterns arise — both in nature and in human behavior.
I know that as a marketing copywriter who works on lead generation systems, you see patterns in people’s behaviours, and this affect how they respond to direct mail.
Fascinating stuff. There is so much to learn and so much I suspect thaat ewe will never understand.
Now this are incredible! I really think someone is making the flakes by hand.
This is beautiful. The complexities found in nature never cease to amaze! <3 stumbleupon
we gotta go deeper!
Fun fact: about a month ago it was finally discovered that NOT all snowflakes are unique.
http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2010/12/03/scientists-discover-snowflake-identical-to-one-which-fell-in-1963/
Thats what she said
Complex structure of snowflakes cristals looks amazing!
^thats what she said
Very precise work, to be sure. I kinda prefer the crystalline fragility from a little different perspective, all glittering mystery. These seem to appear manmade, almost like concrete by the last pic. How ironic.
Awesome!!! The things in this world are so amazing when you really look up close.
what is this i dont even
This is really fantastic and beautiful. I gave a vote in stumbleupon.
It’s amazing to see how mechanical and manufactured some of those snowflakes look on a microscopic level. Kind of makes you realize that so many architects and engineers get their ideas from nature. It’s incredible how natural man-made designs really are.
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These are amazing? Who would have thought that the electron beam doesn’t heat up the snow flakes enough to melt them. I wish some of the sample prep info was included like the temperature the stage was kept at and if the SEM had to be kept at high pressure for this. I’d like to be able to repeat this for some high school kids that visit my university in the summer.
You have disproved your own thesis, that every snowflake is unique. Check out snowflake pictures 2 and 7 on this page. They are identical!
Seriously though, these are beautiful images. I never saw snowflakes pictured like this before.
That is totally amazing. You can’t imagine the beauty in nature. Technology shows us.@
It almost looks like a Star Destroyer from Star Wars.
fantastic! awesome! amazing! alien-ish!
Absolutely amazing pics. Just amazing detail. The snowflakes look almost man-made.
photoshopped!!!
Did anyone else notice that these snowflakes have a tendency to become fractuals??
Really amazing science of snowflakes unbelievable!
well, they are obviously man made, or possibly from another solar system… alien! any fool can see that.
Absolutely astounding. When I view things like this it makes me see beyond equations and algorithms. I see God.
I have always wanted to know what snowflakes looked like really close up, even as a little girl. Thank you for show me what they look like!
now try and tell us there’s no God…
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It is more likely that two snowflakes could become virtually identical if their environments were similar enough.
Looks like Job 38:22.
“Have you entered the treasury of snow,
Or have you seen the treasury of hail,”
The snowflakes are just beautiful!! The pictures are a piece of art.
I would love to have something like that on my wall in an 8×10
The first pic is crazy cant pay me to believe its a snowflake
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2001/02/41085
a lil bit more info on this
Good work GOD!
Simply amazing. Nature (or God) is so perfect and beautiful. You can keep exploring the details, and it’ll never come to an end. These ice crystals and the fact that each of them is different always amazed me. These pictures are few of the best ones I have ever seen. Is this all complexity a coincidence and result of a chaotic randomness? I think not.
Hi, just stumbled upon your website. –Cool pics! Our world has so much yet to discover and be amazed by.
great photos…uncredible how complex nature can be.
Wow.. Its amazing how awesome nature is.. and beautiful!
Cool photos. I like the first one. I didn’t know snowflakes could look like columns.
Where’s Whoville?
This just goes to show that God is real. You cannot look at these and think it happened by accident, God formed each one of these
Jobe 38:22 “Have you visited the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of hail?”
God is…nothing short of amazing
Are these really snowflakes? They look so fake…
Snowflakes make me think that water isn’t uniform, and H2O is an approximation and not the rule. Lightening doesn’t just come out of nowhere, you know!
@Reece thats what I was thinking too.
Those are the most amazing snowflake’s iv iver seen. Wow who knew a snowflake had such a world of its own.
Wow, what an amazing work of nature, we are just discovering whats beyond the naked eye.
This actually broke my heart a little, to think of how it’s actually made, not that Jack Frost is up in the clouds cutting the flakes himself.