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In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life

296 points · 107 comments · danso

grantsucceeded · 1790529474 · focus · HN ↗
this revives my recurring desire to get a good USB microscope. Good, to me, in this context:
a few hundred bucks
able to look at microbes
also able to look at less micro level stuff, like maybe the thing i'm trying to solder or fix
is it wrong to solicit comments/recommendations here?
1. phyzome · 1790552446 · focus · HN ↗
  My household ended up with a couple of ancient binocular dissecting scopes that a university was throwing out. The magnification isn't amazing, but they're fantastic for just grabbing random shit and looking at it, or yes -- things like soldering.
  Ours aren't properly set up for photography, but I did manage to finagle this great shot of a bug curled up inside a hole in the side of a lentil: <a href="https://gallery.brainonfire.net/v2/image/18906" rel="nofollow">https://gallery.brainonfire.net/v2/image/18906
  The objective lenses are just 1.7x and 3.4x so you can see some cells but not really any details in them. But free is a really good price for that.

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