Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Microscopic Battleship

We found these things in Calvin's jar with rotting vegetation, and they reminded me of the old game of battleship. Microscope is at 400x. Are they microscopic animals swimming around? Or are they just microscopic plants (such as diatoms) floating around in convection currents created by the microscope light? Based on the way they all speed up around the same time and by looking at the collision between two of them, I think it's the latter. What do you think?

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