Connected on 2008-03-26 09:45:00 from Hope, ND, US
- 9:43am
- Bugscope Team chat cleared
- Bugscope Team hanson we are working on a vibration issue with the scope, should be done real soon
- Bugscope Team hi students! welcome to bugscope.
- Student Hi! :D
- Bugscope Team hi chachi
- Student How is everyone today? O:
- Bugscope Team hi kristy
- Bugscope Team hi maggie, welcome to bugscope
- Bugscope Team hey there
- Bugscope Team we are just finishing up with the mechanics of the scope, we'll be ready vwery soon
- Student what is this bug?
- Student Hi!
- Student Alrighty.
- Bugscope Team this is fungus on a ladybug
- Student is it a tick?
- Student whoops
- Student EW.
- 9:48am
- Bugscope Team ah, these are some balls of fungus on the ladybug, we'll make one last preset and then it's all yours
- Student k, thanks
- Student Okay. :3
- Bugscope Team okay, session is unlocked hanson, you should see controls on your right side
- Bugscope Team magnify, navigation, focus and adjust
- Bugscope Team when using navigation, click to center is easier to use. c
- Bugscope Team Alright you should now be able to drive, select presets, ask questions about Alex's cats...
- Bugscope Team click to drive is one click to start moving, and click again to stop
- Student hanson is not on her computer
- Bugscope Team I'm going back to being Scott
- Bugscope Team ah, okay, kristy do you want control then?
- Student sure
- Student .so what are we looking at?
- Bugscope Team this is fungus on a ladybug
- Bugscope Team you can zoom out to get a better idea. you are in control of the scope kristy
- Student LOL. Rude? That's not very nice. xP
- Bugscope Team fungus among us
- Student is it a harmful fungus?
- Bugscope Team I think the rude mechanical thing is from Shakespeare. Like the people with the cheap seats.
- Student huh??
- Bugscope Team it's probably a normal fungus -- what comes along and helps things decay
- Student Haha, just ignore it Maggie. :P
- Student I don't read Shakespeare.
- Bugscope Team this is one of the fruiting bodies, with spores
- Student I see...
- Bugscope Team hey kristy, you are welcome to start controlling the scope, do you see controls on your side side of the browser window?
- Bugscope Team i'm with you chachi
- 9:53am
- Student Thanks. xD I'm not one for reading.
- Bugscope Team you can't go too long without finding references to Shakespeare, even if you don't know it
- Bugscope Team well, i like reading, just not shakespeare
- Bugscope Team OKaaaaaay.
- Bugscope Team nice zoom out
- Student It's hard to get me interested in books.
- Bugscope Team now you can see the whole shape of the fungal spore
- Student Are all these fuguses on lady bugs?
Bugscope Team yep, zoom out some more and you can see the ladybug
- Bugscope Team these are on the ladybug, and you can see better as you take the mag down
- Student Hm.. well, I like anything that isn't incredibly easy to read. I like a challenge.
- Bugscope Team we mount the ladybug and most bugs ventral side up so you can see the legs
- Student My favorite book is To Kill a Mockingbird. :3
- Bugscope Team rather than imaging the elytra and that's it
- Bugscope Team we are at the U of I, urbana Illinois
- Student *cool
- Bugscope Team there ya go, ladybug...
- Student Ew...
- Student I hate bugs!! D:
- Bugscope Team kristy, you are controlling a $600,000 miscrope, live.
- Bugscope Team so you are driving a field-emission scanning electron microscope
- Student AHAHA!
- Student Is there any other kind of bugs that can be shown?
Bugscope Team yep, ask kristy to click on a preset (bottom right)
- Bugscope Team here's a pic of the scope: http://www.itg.uiuc.edu/ms/equipment/microscopes/esem/
- Bugscope Team boxelder bug, moth, ant, wasp
- Bugscope Team them movie Bladerunner has electron micrographs in it
- Bugscope Team ther are presets at the right
- Bugscope Team from one of these 'scopes, but ours is better
- Bugscope Team lower right
- Student That's a nice little Fun Fact.
- Bugscope Team if anyone else wants control of the scope, let us know. we can switch control here.
- Student I would like to control.
- Bugscope Team Spiderman has a giant old electron microscope in it as well -- a TEM, not an SEM
- Bugscope Team Maggie has control.
- Student Oh, god. Spiderman. :P
- Bugscope Team maggie, you are the boss now, take us on a spin
- 9:58am
- Student YES!
- Bugscope Team the images are in B&W because we are using electrons rather than light to get our images
- Bugscope Team the scope can get nice images of insects from 20x to 20,000x. any more than that and it's hard to get nice images
- Student That's complicated. o.O
- Bugscope Team this is the claw, one of the claws, of a pelecinid wasp
- Student Wasps have claws? D: Gross.
- Bugscope Team a long, skinny parasitic wasp
- Bugscope Team chachi, do you know how many legs insects have? all insects?
- Bugscope Team this is a very small moth
- Student Six? :3
- Bugscope Team yes, nice.
- Student I'm not that stupid, lol.
- Bugscope Team Yeah it would have six
- Bugscope Team well, just checking
- Student Hopefully.
- Bugscope Team six claws
- Student Awww, brb.
- Student Not me talking anymore.
- Student hello..
- Bugscope Team nice driving maggie
- Student whatsup vinilla face
- Bugscope Team this is the eye -- the compound eye
- Student i don't see an eye
- Student I cant see the EYE! funny
- Bugscope Team umm it is made of hexagonal facets but I don't see it eyether
- Bugscope Team there it is
- Student high five
- Student funny scott.
- Student EWW
- Student eat it
- Student yea icky scales
- Bugscope Team the compound eye is made up of individual facets, called ommatidia, usually there are hundreds of them on a compound eye
- Bugscope Team the scales charge up with electrons
- Bugscope Team now you can see the proboscis
- 10:03am
- Student do my eyes charge with electrons?
- Bugscope Team the mouth
- Student what are the little holes by the eyes?
- Student go to the wasp
- Bugscope Team each ommatidia has a lens in it, so the insect brain actually has to process hundreds of images in order to "see"
- Student alex control the bugs!
- Student control the bugs
- Student we are terrible
- Bugscope Team que?
- Bugscope Team Chachi if your eyes were in the 'scope without being covered with conductive metal they would charge up as well
- Bugscope Team you are doing great
- Student cool!! well cover them with metal! sweet
- Bugscope Team gold-palladium
- Student sure
- Student chachis retarded
- Student well ello scott
- Bugscope Team everything we are looking at has a few nanometers of gold-palladium on it
- Student kristy is retarted
- Student a bug with gold? is that worth a lot?
- Student chachi is very retarded
- Bugscope Team let's let chachi drive
- Bugscope Team no not really, tho it may look prettier
- Student well awsome scott
- Bugscope Team the gold is so thin you can't recover it -- you just throw the bug away
- Student HEY CATE!!!!!!
- Student thats stupid
- Student no u are
- Bugscope Team hey
- Bugscope Team There she is...
- Student i hate bugs.. especially when they bite
- Bugscope Team Chach try another preset if you want
- Bugscope Team these are no longer able to bite -- I like them that way as well
- Bugscope Team yes biting insects arent very nice
- Bugscope Team or stinging ones
- Bugscope Team you guys sent us the boxelder bug, why not take a look at that... oh, here's an ant head
- Bugscope Team this is a tiny ant
- Bugscope Team upside down
- Bugscope Team bees wont usually sting you unless you provoke them though
- Student its gross...
- Student looks like chacis head
- Bugscope Team looks like it is blind as well
- Bugscope Team no eyes
- Student and its retatrded
- 10:08am
- Student everyones ignoring me!!!!! stop it!!!!
- Student thats not good..are they smart?
- Bugscope Team what's up maggie?
- Student maggie..don't sass me
- Bugscope Team Sorry Maggie.
- Student well ello alex
- Student hi nick
- Bugscope Team ere I am JH
- Student is the ant smart i said?!?!?!?!
Bugscope Team well, it has a brain...
- Bugscope Team hey chach, why don't you zoom in on the hairs...
- Bugscope Team near the top
- Student no
- Student IS IT SMART ALEX?
- Bugscope Team Chachi I don't think ants are very smart in general
- Student so there like me?
- Student how big is the brain?
- Student hey rude mechanical speak up
- Bugscope Team they are sort of like -- I don't know -- very programmed
- Student what am i looking at?~
Bugscope Team you zoomed in on the ant head. you can also see some of the legs of the ant
- Bugscope Team although they are very important to us like bees and termites (when they arent infesting our houses)
- Student they're robot ants?
- Bugscope Team rude is me on another computer
- Bugscope Team ants are like robots
- Student how do these insects reproduce???????????????
Bugscope Team well, these are ants, so the queen lays eggs which become mostly workers, but also a queen lays another queen on occasion
- Bugscope Team this is the base of an antenna
- Student what is thingy thats stickin out
- Student oh cool
- Student super dooper
- Bugscope Team palp
- Bugscope Team generally there is a queen that lays eggs
- Bugscope Team eggs become either drones or workers
- Student how do they make eggs???
- Student thats dirty
- Student well...tell me about this bug
- Student you know alot about bugs
- Bugscope Team this is a box elder bug -- a true bug
- Bugscope Team this is a boxelder bug, AKA Boisea trivittata
- Student duh
- Bugscope Team Hemiptera
- Student i thought it was a false bug
- Student how many names are there?
- Student chachi just shut up
- Bugscope Team it is a vegitarian, feeding on leaves mostly
- Bugscope Team mostly...
- Bugscope Team they have piercing mouthparts and sort of half hardened elytra, which is the shell on the back
- Student good thing it doesn't feed on humans..
- Student or does it?!?!? AHHHH
- 10:14am
- Student can u change the controlas over
- Bugscope Team there are thousands of insects/arthropods and thousands of names
- Student ya change the controls over
- Bugscope Team Maggie you have control mademoiselle
- Student how.
- Student i cannot see sir
- Bugscope Team so Chachi is unfettered with the controller
- Bugscope Team hit refresh
- Bugscope Team OOF
- Bugscope Team if you image is black, try hitting refresh (F5)
- Student are they posionuos
- Student OOFFFTAA
- Student no
- Bugscope Team see the eyes on either side of the head?
- Student yueaaaaaaaaa
- Bugscope Team these are not poisonous
- Student are you shur
- Bugscope Team yes
- Student what about the tree they live in
- Student do they like pickles
- Bugscope Team many bugs have defense mechanisms that help keep them from being eaten by ants, birds, etc.
- Student so its ok if you accidentally ate one
- Student how do they defend themselves
- Student chaci has no life
- Student r they good protein
- Bugscope Team they often excrete chemicals that at a minimum make them taste bad
- Student yo yo boy..unzoom it!! gerr
- Bugscope Team like ladybugs taste bad
- Bugscope Team from what I have heard
- Student do they taste like pickles?
- Bugscope Team that's why cats puke them out
- Student EWW TMI
- Bugscope Team my dog ate one the other night, but she will pretty much eat anything
- Student and how do you know that???!!!!!!!11
- Bugscope Team pickles have acetic acid in them and that is one of the chemicals that insects use to protect themselves
- Student it tasted like a bad thing
- Student i LIKE PICKELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOOODDDDD So they should taste like pickles
- Bugscope Team uh oh, lost kristy
- Student wheres she go?
- Bugscope Team the stubby thing is the antenna base and the furry thing is one of the palps
- 10:19am
- Student the lunny bin
- Bugscope Team she logged out
- Student we already looked at this
- Bugscope Team maggie has control of the scope at the moment
- Bugscope Team Hello Borat.
- Student my name a borat
- Bugscope Team maggie take us to another preset please
- Guest be quiet tyler
- Guest give parky the controls.
- Bugscope Team Maggie we know you.
- Guest give borat controls
- Bugscope Team Parky can now drive.
- Student i like you alot
- Bugscope Team where is your teacher?
- Guest HELLO JIMBOB
- Bugscope Team are you all in the same class together?
- Guest shes in the back of the room.
- Guest she is not on her computer.
- Student where you guys from
- Guest NO were not jk but seriously
- Guest yes we are all in the same class.
- Bugscope Team parky, why don't you click on a preset, start moving the scope a bit
- Guest oh my i wouldn't have said that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Guest is it cold down there???
- Guest WELL WHAT DO YOU THINK BORAT????
- Bugscope Team we run a microscope facility and a viz lab
- Guest ?
- Student are you sure your not in a basement 23 feet above ground
- Guest what is a viz lab?
Bugscope Team visualization, imaging and media laboratory
- Bugscope Team it is usually cold down here so the instruments don't get too hot
- Bugscope Team every kind of imaging software
- Guest are you ok maggie??? that medicine working??
- Guest awesome
- Guest BUBBLE GUM
- Guest can you puit yourself under the microscope???
Bugscope Team well, no, the scope chamber is smaller then a human head
- Bugscope Team high-end scanners, stuff to make animations, image processing...
- Guest hey parky
- Bugscope Team not this microscope since the samples are in a vacuum
- Guest the little animal is gon
- 10:24am
- Guest well can you shrink yourself like a bug...like they do on the movie ant bully?
- Student well u do you need it vacuum
- Bugscope Team ant bully?
- Guest scott will you control the bugs?
- Bugscope Team how old are you all?
- Bugscope Team Sure.
- Guest 16 and growing
- Guest 17.
- Guest haha how old are you?
- Guest old enough to party
- Bugscope Team okay, i locked the session, scott will drive, if one of you wants control again let us know
- Student whot is this
- Guest change the picture!!!!!!!!!!!
- Guest someone tell me what that is\
- Bugscope Team ithis is a stinger on a pelecinid wasp
- Bugscope Team parasitic wasp stinger
- Bugscope Team they lay their eggs in beetle larvae i believe
- Bugscope Team this is a stinger/ovipositor
- Guest what kinda stinger? will it sting you?
- Bugscope Team yes as Cate says
- Guest can you show us the boxelder bug?
- Student no
- Guest show us the spores
- Bugscope Team sure, scott, take us to the boxelder?
- Guest do you even know what your talking about? you always put i think...
- Guest flippin sweet
- Guest hey mrs. hansom
- Guest weve already seen the boxelder bug
- Guest bye pickles
- Guest yeah but we want to see the boxelder again.
- Guest Hey crash whats up
- Bugscope Team we are heading that way in a sec chelia, hold on
- Guest HELLO!!!
- Bugscope Team hey virginia
- Student lets see the boxelder bug
- Guest hi cate
- Guest HELLO CATE!!!
- Guest do u like duke
- Bugscope Team hi there mclovin
- Guest can we see something else not the boxelder bug cuz we've already seen that
- Student zoom in
- 10:29am
- Guest bye everybody
- Bugscope Team okay, scott's driving us to another ant
- Bugscope Team does anyone know what those "hairs" are called?
- Guest this is hanson again. This group is leaving and the 7th graders will be arriving in about 5 min
- Bugscope Team ok
- Guest what is this?
- Student What bug are we looking at
- Guest what is this?
- 10:34am
- Bugscope Team scott is a boxelder eye
- Guest yeah
- Bugscope Team compopund eye
- Bugscope Team Maggie this is the box elder -- the eye
- Bugscope Team compound eye
- Guest what bug is this
Bugscope Team boxelder bug
- Guest what is this??
- Bugscope Team it is a compound eye
- Bugscope Team the facets of the eye are called ommatidia
- Guest what are we looking at?
- Student how close is this?
- Bugscope Team many insects have compound eyes, which have many hundreds of individual facets, called ommatidia
- Bugscope Team box elders are 'true bugs'
- Guest can i have the controls
- Guest what in the world is this bug
- Bugscope Team this is 307x on our screen here
- Guest can we see a june bug?
- Bugscope Team maggie, check out the magnification setting in the upper right for the mag
- Guest hi
- Guest hi
- Guest hello
- Student thanks
- Bugscope Team ok, session is unlocked, 7th grade austin has control
- Bugscope Team oops
- Bugscope Team heh
- Guest OPPS
- Student can we see something else?
- Bugscope Team okay, oops, i switched it to 7th grade alyssa. alyssa, you have control of the scope!
- Bugscope Team d'oh!
- Bugscope Team maggie, alyssa has control and will decide what we look at
- Guest so its a compound eye
- Bugscope Team drive
- Bugscope Team or you could ask alyssa to move to something you want to see
- Guest can the compound eye see many things or just one thing at a time?
- Guest zoom out
- Guest Hi what are we looking at
Bugscope Team this is a compound eye of a boxelder bug
- Guest hi
- Bugscope Team when these eyes break open, sometimes, you can see that they are made of little crystals
- Student hi
- Guest how we zoom in and out?
Bugscope Team only one person has control at a time, right now it's alyssa
- Guest hi austin
- Guest good question
- Guest hi austin
- Bugscope Team it sees lots of images and the brain compiles them into something that makes sense
- Bugscope Team this is a LIVE image from an ESEM, so only one person can control at one time, right now alyssa has control
- Guest hello
- Student can we have the controlls
- Guest hi
- Guest ok
- Guest he
- Guest hi
- 10:39am
- Bugscope Team okay maggie, you have control now, take us somewhere please!
- Guest your awsome
- Guest hello peeps
- Guest can you switch the controls to a different computer??
Bugscope Team yes, we can give controls to anyone that is logged in, a guest or a student
- Guest yo peeps
- Bugscope Team a lot of insects, especially flying insects, have a large component of the brain devoted to imaging
- Guest what are we looking at now?
- Guest what is that?
- Guest zoom in
- Guest hi austin
- Guest wat is this
- Guest what type of claw??
- Guest idk
- Guest what is it?
- Guest ant claw
- Guest ask wat they use it for
- Bugscope Team cheila is right
- Guest this is not an ant claw
- Guest what do the use it for?*
- Bugscope Team well, i'm not sure what type of claw, but it's used to help grasp things like food or surfaces
- Guest zoom out
- Guest thats a moth
- Guest thats cool
- Guest cool
- Guest zoom out
- Guest thats scary
- Guest its a snout
- Guest QUIT
- Student what is the toung like thing
- Guest zoom ouy
- Guest look at the eys
- Bugscope Team this is the proboscis
- Guest out**
- Guest zoom in
- Bugscope Team the tongue like thing is acalled a proboscis
- Guest ohhhh i get it
- Guest what a proboscis?
- Bugscope Team the tongue like thing is the proboscis
- Bugscope Team this is the ladybug now'
- Guest thats a ladybug
- Guest whoa
- Guest cool feet
- Bugscope Team there is part of the wing
- Guest are those its legs?
- Bugscope Team well a proboscis is like a long nose. elephants trunks are also called a proboscis
- Bugscope Team yes those are its legs
- Guest can we swith the bug
- Student what is the web stuff
- Guest look at those legs
- Guest what is the web like thing???
Bugscope Team fungus
- Guest What is that stringy stuff@
- Guest looks like a spider attacked it
- 10:44am
- Bugscope Team hmm, not sure, but it may be related to the fungus that is nearby
- Guest yea it does
- Guest EW
- Bugscope Team its fungus
- Bugscope Team see those spiky calls, that's fungus
- Guest whoa
- Guest what are we looking at?
- Guest why would there be fungus on a ladybug?
- Guest i am confused
- Bugscope Team you can see the tarsi, which are the extended forearm segments
- Bugscope Team what's the problemo mclovin?
- Guest can we get a different picture?
Bugscope Team cheila, maggie is in control, ask her to move to a different picture
- Guest cool fungus
- Bugscope Team just means it is decomposing
- Student mrs hanson found the ladybug in her window sill
- Bugscope Team fungus will eventually get everything that dies
- Guest where is its mouth
- Guest dont get adifferent picture
- Guest idk that is a good question about this but can we see something else plz?
- Bugscope Team the mouth is to the top of the head there
- Guest Maggie can we get a different picture??
- Guest no
- Bugscope Team its by the head which is at the top there
- Bugscope Team maggie, can you move to somethign else please
- Guest what is that?
- Guest what is that
- Guest whoa
- Student is that still the lady bug
- Guest so the fungus is decomposing?
- Bugscope Team you can see more fungus and you can see palps that are used to taste and manipulate food
- Guest the ladbug*?
- Guest it looks like theirs claws on the ladybug
- Bugscope Team maggie, you have control
- Guest what bug is it?
- Bugscope Team this is the ladybug
- Guest can we have to controler??
- Bugscope Team shall i give control to someone else?
- Guest yes
- Guest yes'
- Bugscope Team cheila, i just gave you control
- Guest can we have the controler?
- Guest Can we plz see something else
- Guest we'v seen this
- Bugscope Team ask cheila, she has control of the scope
- Bugscope Team Cheila you are the supreme ruler
- Guest new picture
- Bugscope Team cheila, click on another preset
- Guest good
- Bugscope Team this is a ladybug
- Student who is madison?
- Student nm
- Bugscope Team these are not really pictures, you know -- you are controlling the microscope and getting images from wherever the electron beam goes
- Student nvm
- Bugscope Team cheila, please move to something else or we'll have to give control to someone else
- 10:49am
- Bugscope Team so this is realtime imaging
- Student oo
- Guest sweet
- Guest thats cool to see
- Guest what are we going to look at next?
- Student can we see something new?
- Guest It wont let us pick a different picture.
- Student oo sorry
- Guest so......
- Guest wat is it
- Guest whoa
- Guest its an eye
- Guest is that an eye?
- Guest what is that
- Guest of a wasp!
- Guest can we zoom up
- Bugscope Team you can see that it is composed of facets
- Guest no
- Bugscope Team the facets are called ommatidia
- Guest whoa
- Guest what is that
- Guest what is it?
- Guest whoa
- Guest lol
- Guest stay on one thing
- Guest what?
- Bugscope Team this is a parasitic wasp
- Bugscope Team there can be thousands of facets on an eye
- Guest is there anything else?
- Guest yes it is
- Guest what is that bubble like thing
- Guest why are moths atrracted to luight?
- Guest ?
- Guest light*
- Student where its head
- Bugscope Team McLovin there are several insects on the stub but nothing else
- Guest i really dont no
- Guest what is a stub?
- Guest dont know
- Bugscope Team we have a 1 3/4 inch stub that we stick the insects on
- Guest what is a stub crash?
- Bugscope Team aluminum stub
- Guest or cate
- Guest what is this?
- Student oh i get it
- Student what are we looking at?
Bugscope Team a parasitic wasp stinger, that lays eggs in beetle larvae like scarab beetles
- Guest don't know
- Guest is that an antenna?
- Guest stinger
- Student is this still the wasp
- Guest oh...ok
- Guest is's a stinger
- Guest we have to sign out
- Student we have to sign off now
- 10:54am
- Guest ohhh cooooool
- Guest its a lobster claw!
- Guest we have to log off BYE l8r!!!
- Guest bye guys\
- Student thank you for the info.
- Guest l8r gotta go. MCLOVIN!
- Guest we have to sing out know
- Guest sign off
- Bugscope Team good bye
- Bugscope Team bye all . hope you had fun
- Guest see u in science peace
- Student we did
- Guest :)
- Guest :):):):)
- Bugscope Team thats great
- Bugscope Team Thank you!
- Bugscope Team okay, session done. disabling now
- Bugscope Team bye alex-o
- Bugscope Team :)
