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Ransom Riggs
Beautiful pictures … of what?
by Ransom Riggs - April 2, 2007 - 9:00 AM

Thanks to Irene Müller for the kind use of her incredible photos!

Two substances meet and react; a laboratory-grade camera captures the results. Was the camera attached to the Hubble Space Telescope, trained on some distant nebula? Deep within CERN, perhaps, recording sub-atomic impacts at high-speed? Or on a simple tabletop? We’ll give you a hint: the substances reacting are essential to mammalian life on Earth. Check out the photos and see if you can tell us — what are they?
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Answer after the jump!

COFFEE and MILK.
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Photos via Irene Müller.          

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  1. milk.

    posted by Rebecca on 4-2-2007 at 9:30 am

  2. Dang it.

    Now I want coffee.

    posted by Milica on 4-2-2007 at 10:03 am

  3. I’m not sure these substances are necessarily essential to mamallian life, but in the mornings it can certainly seem that way.

    posted by Ernie on 4-2-2007 at 10:15 am

  4. The coffee is certainly essential. The milk, not so much (at least not together).

    posted by Emily Jane on 4-2-2007 at 11:45 am

  5. A banana?

    posted by Drew on 4-2-2007 at 11:47 am

  6. oh, I thought it was an egg…in water. Guess I’m not good at that.

    posted by Korin on 4-2-2007 at 12:05 pm

  7. Wohoo! Got it.

    posted by Kevin A on 4-2-2007 at 3:30 pm

  8. It did look rather like an egg in that second picture, Korin.

    posted by Pointy-Hatted Geek on 4-2-2007 at 5:42 pm

  9. It’s still frames of a drop of milk falling into a cup of coffee. These are really neat!

    posted by heather on 4-2-2007 at 9:23 pm

  10. I did this in high school… all we used was a strobe light, a sound sensor, a really dark room, some strange circuit board, an old-school poloriod camera, and a lot of patience. We got some great pics of light bulbs breaking, mouse traps smashing eggs, milk drops, and flour filled balloons popping. Good times.

    posted by Amy on 4-2-2007 at 10:25 pm

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