Favourite bit of kit/Anti microbial?

[Muddy Waters]

Are these anti microbial windlasses? Is this the way to keep boating and help to stave off the dreaded corona virus?

Could polishing your brasses save your life?

Where's my Brasso?

[Alan de Enfield]

 

Scientists used the Japanese-made spacecraft Hayabusa2 to fire a 2-kilogram copper cannonball at a speed of 2 kilometers-per-second into the asteroid Ryugu, a tiny, rocky body orbiting nearby, between Earth and Mars.

The cannonball, though tiny, managed to blast a 14-meter-wide, semicircular crater into the asteroid’s crisp surface. But aside from making an impact in the real sense, the shot transformed scientists' understanding of the asteroid's age, composition, and other properties.

The unprecedented results pave the way for researchers to better estimate these same details for the myriad other asteroids strewn across the universe.

 

https://www.inverse.com/science/scientists-fired-cannonball-into-asteroid-heres-what-happened-next

[Muddy Waters]

I have, use, a brass Japanese pencil case. They, the Japanese, make some fab stuff I love my copper ginger grater.

[MtB]

7 hours ago, Muddy Waters said:

Are these anti microbial windlasses? Is this the way to keep boating and help to stave off the dreaded corona virus?

 

Is a virus a microbe? Is a bacterium a microbe? What is a microbe anyway?

 

Just wondering....

 

 

 

[Alan de Enfield]

10 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

Is a virus a microbe? Is a bacterium a microbe? What is a microbe anyway?

 

Just wondering....

 

 

 

 

Be x 10⁻⁶

[MtB]

1 minute ago, Alan de Enfield said:

 

Be x 10⁻⁶

 

A very small bee?

 

 

[Chris Lowe]

Can you work locks wearing one of these?

 

[system 4-50]

3 minutes ago, buccaneer66 said:

Can you work locks wearing one of these?

 

At last! I've found a use for C&RT showers!

[Muddy Waters]

The major groups of microorganisms (microbes) are bacteria, archaea, fungi (yeasts and moulds), algae, protozoa, and viruses.

I hope this is of some help.

[MtB]

4 minutes ago, Muddy Waters said:

The major groups of microorganisms (microbes) are bacteria, archaea, fungi (yeasts and moulds), algae, protozoa, and viruses.

I hope this is of some help.

 

Thanks!

 

So where do "microbes" fit into all this? Or is "microbe" slang for something, or a term made up by advertising departments?

 

 

[Muddy Waters]

11 hours ago, buccaneer66 said:

Can you work locks wearing one of these?

 

You can wear what you like on the cut, we are quite a broad church. This might be of some use during the next BCN challenge.

[Muddy Waters]

2 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

Thanks!

 

So where do "microbes" fit into all this? Or is "microbe" slang for something, or a term made up by advertising departments?

 

 

It's just something very very small, I mean really small, mindbogglingly small. 

[MtB]

11 minutes ago, Muddy Waters said:

It's just something very very small, I mean really small, mindbogglingly small. 

 

What, smaller than say, an Aintree Beetle?

 

[Muddy Waters]

A microbe , “is small. Really small. You just won't believe how tiny, winy, mindbogglingly small it is. I mean, you may think an Aintree Beetle is small, but that's colossal compared to the size of a microbe.

 

Miss quoted from D.N.A. 

[cuthound]

How does it compare in size to an electron?

 

Most of us are familiar with electrons being avid users of electricity. ?

[WotEver]

2 hours ago, Muddy Waters said:

Miss quoted from D.N.A. 

National Dyslexia Association?

[MtB]

5 minutes ago, WotEver said:

National Dyslexia Association?

 

One of my fave jokes. Get people EVERY TIME when you ask them in the pub what DNA stands for....

 

 

[Muddy Waters]

Ooooohh! Electricons. Next it will be charms and quarks.

D.N.A. Douglas Noel Adams

[Muddy Waters]

And I am dyslectic or is that dyslexic? 

 

Virus must be bigger than an electron but viruses come in different sizes and an electron has no measurable size...?

I think.

[WotEver]

Viruses are the smallest of all the microbes. They are said to be so small that 500 million rhinoviruses (which cause the common cold) could fit on to the head of a pin. On the other hand, there is no concept of an electron size other than the spatial extent of the electron wavefunction, which is tiny. Much, MUCH smaller than a virus. Smaller of course than an atom. 

[Muddy Waters]

Yep, a virus is bigger than an electron.

[MtB]

17 minutes ago, WotEver said:

Viruses are the smallest of all the microbes.

 

 A bloke on the radio the other day was saying the CV-19 virus was a bustard great bustard of a virus, or something along those lines, apparently. Dwarfs all the others.

 

So something along the lines of the world's largest midget? Or smallest giant, perhaps?

 

 

 

[Alan de Enfield]

35 minutes ago, WotEver said:

They are said to be so small that 500 million rhinoviruses

Rhino's are quite big, are their Viri in proportion ?

[WotEver]

5 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:

Rhino's are quite big, are their Viri in proportion ?

No, they’re even smaller than baby rhinos. 

21 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

So something along the lines of the world's largest midget? Or smallest giant, perhaps?

Yes. Still smaller than a bacteria but bigger than your average virus. 

[MtB]

6 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:

Rhino's are quite big, are their Viri in proportion ?

 

Who nose?