Connected on 2010-04-05 10:30:00
from San Antonio, TX, US
- 9:23 am
- Bugscope Teamsamples are pumping down
- Bugscope Teamjust about there...
- TeacherHey there! So excited!
- Bugscope Teamgood morning!
- Bugscope Teamwelcome to bugscope!
- Bugscope Teamwelcome back i should say
- 9:29 am
- TeacherSo...did my samples work?
- Bugscope Teamwe're figuring that out now -- this is from suspect C, who seems to have three different kinds of pollen on her/his laces
- Teachercorrect...
- Bugscope Teamthat should make this more fun
- Teacherthe other suspects should have one fewer...
- Bugscope Teamthe big pollen looks like Stargazer Lily
- TeacherYes...I got it from a local florist...the others are from flowers on campus that were growing wild.
- 9:35 am
- Teachertrying to get all the computers set...
- Bugscope Teamok
- 9:40 am
- 9:46 am
- Bugscope Teamthe pollen samples liquefied in the plastic bags, so this is kind of cool -- we have to search pretty hard to find pollen that is close to intact
- Teacherhmmm...as long as we can get 3 samples and one is different then we are good...did you get my note...you guys are a crime lab today...lol
- Bugscope Teamthese, from the crime scene, look much better, of course
- 9:51 am
- Bugscope Teamthis is more like real life...
- Teacherlol...they are looking at hair under a regular microscope here and then doing a handwriting analysis...
- Teacherwe will be rotating in 20 min sessions...
- Bugscope Teamokay
- Bugscope Teamgoing back to the shoelace tips to look for more evidence
- 9:59 am
- 10:08 am
- TeacherAwesome!
- 10:18 am
- Bugscope TeamWe are ready to roll.
- Bugscope Teamsession is unlocked now
- Bugscope Teama few pollen grains from the shoelace tip from the crime scene
- 10:29 am
- Teacherwe are loggin in! here we come
- Bugscope Teamhi riley, welcome to bugscope
- Bugscope Teamwelcome welcome
- Studenthi Alex!
- Studenthi
- Studenthi what r we loking at
- Bugscope Teamhi vanessa
- StudentHey Venessa
- Studentlogged on!
- Studenthi peoples
- StudentHello every body
- Studentlol
- StudentReady
- Studentno kyle
- StudentH A H A
- Bugscope TeamWelcome to Bugscope! these are kind of smooth pollen grains we found on the shoelace from the crime scene
- Studentum
- Studentso where is the sciencetist guy
- Studenthai
- Studenthi alex
- Studentits my twin
- Studentyay
- Guestim here
- Studenthi jenah
- GuestHai Kate
- Student:D
- Guesthi kate and alyssa
- Studenthiya
- StudentHello evrybody!!
- Studentwhat is this picture of
- GuestWuz up
- Studentwat is that really really gross thing
- StudentHi matt
- Bugscope Teamheh, alex e, welcome
- Studentits an orange
- StudentI like pie and cheeze
- Studentyay
- Bugscope TeamAlex and I are the scientists, so far. I'm Scott but I am on the microscope itself and logged on as ESEM
- Studentalex
- Guestit is?
- GuestUm...what is this a picture of?
Bugscope Teamthis is pollen
- Studentthats nice kyle
- Studentyou are in illinois?
Bugscope TeamYes, we're in central Illinois, at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign
- StudentIDK
- Studenthave you seen my uncle?
- Studenti know i am
- Studentalex hes not really there
- StudentWhat is this?????
- StudentWhat is this?
- Studentso what are these pictures for?why are they helpful?
- Studentoh
- StudentThis is pollen from the shoelace.
- Studentmy uncle is aboveground
- StudentWhy is there a picture of pollen? It wasn't a piece of evidence
- Guestit's pollen
- Bugscope Teamthese are pollen grains, evidence in your crime scene
- Studentcool
- Studentfrom the shoelace?
- Studentcool pollen looks wierd how much is it magnified
- StudentThe top picture is the shoe lace?
- Studentis this the shoelace we found?
- StudentIs the top pictuer from the shoela ve?
- Studentfrom what type of plant?
- Studentoops
- Studentis this a shoelace
- Studentwhy would this be evidence ?
- Studento i mean shoe lace
- Studentokey and what should we look at? what is important?
- Studentwhy would a shoelace look like that?
Bugscope TeamKasey this is a high mag image, so it is not easy to see the fibers from the shoelace
- Bugscope Teamand the top image in the presets is also from the crime scene
- Studentso you do this for a living
- Studentthis is from the shoelace
- Studentcool
- Studenthow is pollen important??
- Studentcould you discribe it for us please
- Studentha
- Studentits the part you can't see
- StudentDoes it look like that because it is dirty?
- Studentis this a real person
- Studentbecause its so small
- StudentThis means the guy hit a tree or scrubbed some pollen on him
- GuestAnswer?
- Guestwhat kind of plant did this pollen fall off of?
Bugscope Teamwe don't know what kind of plant it came off of, but if you look around you may be able to compare this and the other samples and see if there are common features, for example
- StudentIs this evedance?
Bugscope Teamyep, this is crime scene evidence
- 10:34 am
- GuestThat looks cool!
- StudentThat looks awesomely cool dude!
- StudentIs this pollen
- Student thats cool
- Studentwhy do we need to see this?
- Studentso is the top image a shoe lace if not what is it
- GuestWhy is this pollen important?
Bugscope TeamThe surface structure of pollen is very distinctive to the plant it came from, so you can look for a match between pollen at the scene of the crime and on the clothes of a suspect
- Studentalyssa wats up
- Studentso do you work this web site all the time
Bugscope TeamWe all work in a microscopy lab which assists researchers from the whole University. We get to do Bugscope about three times a week.
- Studentso what are the things that dont belong
- Studentmore evidence
- Student?
- Teachercan you allow me to log in again...the computer I'm on won't let me scroll to the right so I can get to the presets
Bugscope Teamtry F11 to get full screen
- StudentO.k. so I hypothesize this guy hit a tree
- Guestyeah what how does this help us?
- Studentwhat is important in the picture?i mean like why are we looking at it?
- Studentcool but what does this picture give that has evidence ?
Bugscope TeamDude say you were looking at a bunch of samples and some of them had pollen on them and some didn't seem to or had a different type of pollen or there was other evidence...
- Guestdid someone have to have a pollen tree that the pollen fell from?
- StudentHow is this important?
- Studenthow did the pollen get on the shoe?
- Bugscope Teamor it might be F10
- Studentwhat is this from
- Studenti did f11
- Studentit worked
- StudentHe must have scrubbed of a plant people
- GuestHow did the person get the pollen on him?
- Guesthow does this help us?
- StudentNo one is anwsering my question...hmmm...Oh yeah i remembered what i was gonna ask. How willl you find out what flower its from?
- Studenthow do you view diffrent pictures?
Bugscope Teamgarcie has control of the scope now
- Studentso alex
- StudentWhat is the pollen for
- Studentis all this from the shoelace?
- Studentso its part of a plant right
- StudentIs the pollen on the shoelace
Bugscope Teamyes it is!
- Studentor is some other evidence mixed in?
- StudentYes, including all the pollen
- Teacherhavin touble moving microscope...can we pull up the presets
Bugscope Teami just switched control to you now, try it
- Guesthow does this help us?
- GuestWait, so the big picture is of pollen, and so are all the other pictures on the side, right?
- Guestthere seems to be pollen on all the shoes so we're looking for abnormal amouts?
- Studentso your name is alex guy from illinois
Bugscope Teamyep, my name is alex, i'm from illinois
- Studentwhy does everyone keep asking about the polen !
- GuestWhere's the presets?
- Studenthai. how will you find out what flower the pollen is from?
- Bugscope TeamGarcie you should be able to click on a preset and the 'scope will drive to that place
- StudentNo more evidence is shown except the pollen and the shoelace but I see something in the backgrond and I don't know what iyt is.
- Studentcool
- Guestthe piece of jean, the other sample, did it have pollen on it?
- Teachergot an error message. "Valid session ID not recieved in data request'
Bugscope Teamis it working now?
- Studentit*
- Studentalex did u train on this?
- Studenthey alex can you move the diffrent pics?
- Guesthow does this help?
- Studentor is some edited with other fibers?
- Studentwhy do you work underground
Bugscope Teambecause there is less vibration down here
- Studentwhoa
- Studentare all the pictures on the side of pollen on the shoelace
- GuestWhat happened to the picture?
Bugscope Teamyour teacher is controlling the image, there are live images from an electron microscope
- Studentr yall in college
Bugscope TeamNo, all of us are out of school, but our job here is to assist the students who are doing their research
- Studentwhat is that
- 10:39 am
- Guestdid the piece of jean have pollen/
- StudentWhat is this?
- Studentthat looks like grass
- Bugscope Teamlooks like you've got it working garcie?
- Studentplants!
- Studenti think it is
- Studentthe pollen
- StudentChas, what grade r u in, orare u in collage?
- Studentdiffrent pollen though right
- Studentso he went into the bush
- Studentso there is pollen all over the shoe lace
- StudentThis must be when the plant got him
- Guesthow does this help us?
- Studentr u showing the different pictures on the side of our screen?
Bugscope Teamthose are the presets, your teacher can click on a preset to move the scope to that location
- Bugscope Teamthis is evidence from the crime scene as well, and now we see fibers from the shoelace as well as the kind of pollen we saw earlier plus another kind of pollen
- StudentYep
- GuestDid the piece of jean have pollen on it???
Bugscope TeamPlease ask Garcie to navigate to the "fabric" presets to see what the pollen looks like on the jeans
- Guestwhat type of pollen is this?
Bugscope Teamthe big pollen grains look like Stargazer Lily pollen we have seen before
- Guestso this is a shoelace, right?
- Studentis that the fibers?
- Studentso ...why is it important if it has pollen or not?
- Studentso is this the pollen from the shoelace?
Bugscope Teamyes this is from the shoelace from the perp
- Studentor what
- Studentgosh vanessa its evidence
- Guestyeah whatsso important about it?
Bugscope TeamThe goal is to compare features found on the evidence with features found at the scene of the crime
- Guesto.k.
- StudentThat must have got him right!
- Bugscope Teamthis is from suspect A's shoelace
- StudentIs this the pollen cause it looks like eggs?
Bugscope Teamnot all pollen looks like this
- Studentin real life would you be able to do this?
- Studentso
- Bugscope Teampollen sometimes looks like eggs, like this, and sometimes it is round
- Guestso the picture that's up right now is from suspect a?
Bugscope Teamyes!
- Studentis this all diffrnt pics of diffrent pollen
Bugscope Teamthese are not really pics -- they are live images from a scanning electron microscope
- Studentthen
- Studenti think this is like
- Studento.k.
- Studentarethe circles pollen
Bugscope Teamyep
- Bugscope TeamNOTE: If you click on the scale bar in the lower-left corner of the image it will display more information, including the nearest preset -- that will help you keep up with where we are
- Studenton the crime scene evidence pic there are no other like it. are you sure it's not the victums shoelace
- Bugscope Teamwell, they are ovals
- 10:44 am
- Studentwhat is so important about this
- Studentshoelace?*
Bugscope TeamPaul you are right it could be the victim's shoelace. Here we don't know the whole story.
- Studentoh cool
- Studentso the images we are looking at are live not just pictures that yall took with a camera
- Teacherdo we have a preset for suspect C shoelace/pollen?
Bugscope Teampresets 1 and 2
- Studentthose are some pretty wierd looking ovals
- Studentdid the suspect run through flowers?
- Guestwhoa are those things that look like peanuts pieces of pollen?
Bugscope Teamtotally, you got it
- Guestremeber,kate he trampled on it
- Studentso are the round things more pollen?
Bugscope Teamthe oval things are pollen, yes
- Bugscope Teamwhat is important is that you know what we are looking at each time -- this is from suspect B
- Students
- Studentso we are looking at live images not pictures yall took with a camera
Bugscope Teamthat's right! these are live images from an electron microscope
- Studentwhy are all the scans different if it is the same item?
- Studentoh yeah thanks jenah. at least you answered my question :) lol just kidding
- Studentthere in diffrent spots
- Guestwhat are the not oval things?
- Studentcool
- StudentSo this guy must have benn in the flowers at the time right? Or is it still something?
- Studentthe fibers
- Studentcould the pollen move over time?
- Bugscope TeamTHIS IS SUSPECT C SHOELACE POLLEN
- Studentwe are looking ar the pollen, right?
- Studentis this suspect c?
Bugscope Teamyes
- GuestThat looks weird!!!
- Studentwill you be my best friend chas?
- Studentok
- Guestthank you
- Bugscope TeamAnd this is also Suspect C Shoelace
- Studentcould the pollen move or will it not
Bugscope Teamwell, wind can blow it around yes, but this pollen haven't moved like that
- Studenti drew the first one
- Studentis this suspect c?
- Guestso this picture is the crime scene pic?
- Studentthis has lots of pollen
- Studentso the more pollent it has ...the guiltier?
- Studentthanks alot
- Studentthank you
- GuestThanks
- StudentIs this the stargazer lily?
- StudentThank You!
- Studentthank you lots!
- Guestthank you for all the help and answering my questions
- Teacherswitching groups
- 10:49 am
- StudentThanks .
- Guestthanks. but i have to go
- Studentthanks for giving me ansersssss
- Studentbye
- GuestThanks for the help peace out!! :D
- Studentthank you for answering our questions
- Bugscope Teamthanks kids, you did GREAT!
- Studentthanks so much u help alot :)
- StudentThanks! thanks you for everything i kno it must have been hard to answers all these questions at one time! thanks!vanessa!1!
- Studentyour welcome
- StudentThank You Guys
- Studentbye people
- Studentthxxx your awesome
- StudentThank you for answering everything i asked
- StudentLater dudes !
- Studentlater dudes its been kool
- Bugscope Teamyou are rule. have a good one!
- Teacherwe are back
- Bugscope Teamhello, welcome to bugscope
- Bugscope Teamyay!
- Studentwhat am I looking at here?
Bugscope TeamYou're seeing live images from a scanning electron microscope. We have several pieces of evidence on the sample stage, which you can jump to using the presets in the lower-right corner of the screen
- 10:54 am
- Studenthello
- Studentwat type of flower is this
- Studentwhat are we looking at?
- StudentHey guys (and gals)!
- Studentnot a flower
- StudentWhat kind of pollen is it?
- Studentwhat type of pollen is this?
- Studenti can tell
- StudentWhat kind of flower does this pollen come from?
- Studentwhat is this//
- Bugscope Teamthis is the crime scene pollen
- Studentwhat type of pollen are we looking at
- StudentWhat type of plant is this pollen from?
- Bugscope TeamTHIS IS CRIME SCENE POLLEN, take a good look at the way the pollen looks
- StudentWhat kind of pollen is that?
Bugscope Teamwe aren't sure, but to figure out the crime, you need to notice the details of what the pollen looks like
- Studenthi
- Bugscope TeamThe large grains that look kind of like peanuts resemble Stargazer Lily pollen.
- Student...
- Studentdo we draw this??\
Bugscope TeamYou don't need to draw it right now because the images are all saved for you and will be available on our website for you to look at later
- Bugscope TeamIt's hard to know exactly what kind of plant it comes from, but you can still note the shape of the pollen for comparison to the pollen found on other pieces of evidence
- StudentOooooooookaaaaaay
- Studentstop matt. He answered you already.
- Studenthi
- Studentis pollen the only thing that is atatched to this shoelace?
Bugscope Teamlooks like it is, for this one
- Studentdo you know what kind of plant the pollen came from??
- Studentdont thinknso
- Studenthow is illonois
Bugscope Teamit's warming up
- Studentok
- StudentWell no duh.
Bugscope Teamheh
- Studentwhat are the peanuts
Bugscope Teamthose are pollen grains from a different kind of plant -- pollen comes in many shapes
- StudentWhat is this?
- Studenthow many pieces of hair is there in this picture?
- StudentMegaman has gone Maverick... I am not he real Zero... BLUE LIGHT... MUST KILL!!!
- Studentis that hair??
- Studentis this the same kind of pollen from the crime scene
Bugscope Teamlooks like it but we do not see those bigboy grains -- the ones that look like peanuts
- Bugscope TeamWe can see some pollen grains on the shoelace too. Do they look the same or different from the Crime Scene Evidence?
- 10:59 am
- StudentIs this still the shoelace?
Bugscope Teamthis is one of the shoelaces
- StudentWhat is this?
- StudentThanks!
- Bugscope Teamthe long strands are the fibers from the shoelace from suspect A
- Studentwhat shoelace?
Bugscope Teamthere are four shoelace tips in the 'scope, and four pieces of fabric
- Studentwhat kind of flower is that from
- Studentthis is cool it looks alot different than the last
Bugscope Teamgood eye, mr. detective!
- StudentEmily, what do you mean?
- StudentWhat are thoes flaws on one of the strands of the shoelace?
Bugscope Teamyeah, small imperfections only seen under an electron microscope
- StudentMegaman has gone Maverick... I Am Not The Real Zero... BLUE LIGHT... MUST KILL!!!
- Bugscope Teamthere is also a set of samples from all suspects -- pollen -- and a sample of pollen from the crime scene
- StudentThis looks more like hair than a shoelace.
Bugscope Teamhair has ridges in it that occur when it grows, and we do not see those
- Studentwhy are there seeds in a shoelace?
Bugscope Teamthose are pollen grains, and the person wearing the shoes must have walked through a flowerbed
- Studentahaha thanks
- Bugscope TeamThere are a lot of other pieces of evidence to examine if you'd like to move on
- Studentwhat did you say about megaman
- Studenton some of the pieces of pollen, on side has opened up. What is that?
Bugscope Teamthat is how we often find pollen, with a slot on one side
- StudentThe imperfections resemble a strand of hair.
Bugscope Teamyes they do
- Studentis there also poolen seeds in this picture
- StudentThis shoelace looks worn out.
Bugscope TeamWe're actually only seeing a few of the many hundreds or thousands of fibers that make up the whole shoe-lace
- StudentStop putting random comments
- Studentthe pollen looks like it has little cracks in it is that true? or is it natural?
Bugscope Teamyes it is natural
- StudentYaeh emily
- Studentby tony
- Studentdo you know what kind of flower the pollen came from?
Bugscope Teamwe don't
- StudentThis shoelace has little tears. Is this piece of evidence worn out?
- StudentI spell yeah that way for fun
- Bugscope TeamTHIS IS SUSPECT B
- 11:05 am
- Studentokay
- StudentBy god, what is This?
- Bugscope Teamask your teacher to look at the fabric samples
- Studentthis looks raggedy what is that shredded looking stuff?
Bugscope Teamthat is some juju on the shoelaces
- Studentis This the same pollen as in suspect A?
Bugscope Teamlooks very much like it
- StudentIs this still the shoelace?
- Studentis the pollen the same in a and b
- StudentIs the pollen similar to suspect A's
- Studentyo whats up ilinois dude
- Studentwhat is juju?
Bugscope Teamit
Bugscope Teamit is our word for dirt, grime, junk....
- StudentThe pollen looks like seeds.
- Bugscope Teambut do we see the big pollen grains we'd seen on the crime scene evidence?
- Studenthuh?
- Studentohhokayy
- StudentWhat is the stuf that is surounding the shoelace and the pollen?
Bugscope Teamlooks like some random goo we often call juju
- Studentokay thanks
- Student@arturo more like pistachioes
- StudentStop putting dumb comments, John.
- Studentwait i wasent ready
- Studentoh wow alot different
- StudentWhat suspect is this?
- Bugscope Teamthis is evidence
- Bugscope TeamTHIS IS SUSPECT C
- Studentwhy does the pollen look like a beehive?
Bugscope Teamthat is the way it forms
- Bugscope Teamyeah this is from suspect C
- StudentDo we know what plant this odd shaped pollen is from?
Bugscope Teamit is very much like pollen we had seen a few years ago from Stargazer Lilies
- StudentThank you Alex.
- StudentWhy are the pollen things bigger?
Bugscope Teamwell, pollen can be in many shapes and sizes, the important thing here is to notice the difference and solve the crime!
- Studenthow come some pollen is big and some are small
Bugscope Teamthe point is that pollen is not all the same
- Studentthe pollen looks like a brain
- StudentThis is from a lilly?
Bugscope Teamit looks like pollen we have seen in the past that came from a lily
- Studentwhats up
- StudentIs this pollen bigger than the other types or is it just the micro scope?
Bugscope TeamNo, they are actually different sizes and shapes. Pollen has a lot of variation in structure just like different plants can look very different
- Studentare the small and big pollen from diffrent flowers?
- Teacherswitching groups
- 11:10 am
- Studentbye thanks for the info illionois!
- Studentbye!! thanx 4 letting us use ur microoscope
- StudentThank you and goodbye people.
- Studentbye illinois
- Studentahffliueufdsnvfdsbafrgyfhvnbdsajkf.nhewiufahvrd,abgehrgfhcqjbd,nmgcakhaerhbdcab
- Studentbyee thanks
- Studentthanks
- Studentsee you guyz later thanx for the info. (its cool chatting with scientists in illinois
- Studentthatk u so much but we have to go bye
- StudentAwwwww, I don't wanna go.
- Studentthanks for your time. Bye,(:
- Studentthank you for letting us use your micrscope! byeeeeeee!!!:):)
- Studentbye
- Bugscope Teamyou all did great!
- Studentkasey stooppppp!
- Bugscope Teamhave a good one
- StudentThanks a lot. You were a big help. The rest of this mystory will be a breeze! Thanks!
- StudentYou're weird, Kasey
- Bugscope Teamhi students, welcome to bugscope [CSI edition]
- Bugscope TeamWelcome to Bugscope!
- Studentthank you
- Studenthi alex
- Bugscope TeamTHIS IS THE CRIME SCENE EVIDENCE
- Studenthow far zoomed up are we
Bugscope Team658x, click on the scale bar in the lower left to find out
- Bugscope TeamNOTICE THE SHAPE AND TEXTURE OF THE POLLEN
- Studentokay
- Studentwhat it the stuff that is on the shoelace
- Student85
- Bugscope Teamthis is 658X
- StudentUm, what are we looking at?
- StudentThis is pollen?
Bugscope TeamYes, the sort of pill-shaped things are pollen grains
- StudentWhat are these things?
- Studentwat?
- StudentWhat is the long line in the middle?
- Studentwhat are the oval things
- Studentis this pollen
- Bugscope Teamthe oval shaped things are pollen, yes
- Studentis this really gray?
Bugscope Teamthese are images from an electron microscope, it uses electrons to gather the image, not light, so there is no color
- Bugscope Teamwe can see fibers from the shoelace, and we can see two types/sizes of pollen grains
- StudentYeah what is that stuff
Bugscope Teamthe big dudes are one kind of pollen and the small dudes are another kind
- 11:15 am
- Studentcool
- Studentwhat is the pollen from?
- StudentOh. I get it know
- Studentpollen is a grain
Bugscope Teamyes!
- Student??
- StudentI meant now
- Studentwow this is really cool
Bugscope Teamthis is a closeup of a portion of a shoelace
- Studentthat is so cool
- Studentis it the germs on it
Bugscope TeamWe're not seeing any bacteria right now, but you can see bacteria molds and fungus with an electron microscope
- StudentIs their dirt on it?
Bugscope Teamsure, there can be dirt, grime, junk, we call it juju
- Studentjuju
- Studentthis is really cool
- Studentjuj?
- Studenthaha juju
- Studenti meant juju
- Studentwhat?
- Studentwow this is really interesting
- StudentIs this the shoelace?
Bugscope Teamthis is a piece of the shoelace
- Studentwhy is there holes in the big pollen?
- StudentIs this a close up portion of the shoelace?
- Bugscope TeamTHIS IS A PIECE OF THE SHOELACE, FROM THE CRIME SCENE
- Studentso this is what a shoe lace really looks like?
- StudentThey look weird
- Studentwere did this pollen come from
- StudentPlease stop using caps lock.
- Studentwhat plant is the pollen from?
- Studentwhere did this pollon come from?
- Studentwhere did this polen come from
- Studentis this really black and white and gray
Bugscope Teambecause we are using an electron microscope we see these images in greyscale rather than color
- Student were did the pollen come from?
- Bugscope Teamthe pollen must have come from some kind of plant
- StudentAre the pollen the big sponge like-things or the small things
Bugscope Teamyou got it!
- Bugscope Teamboth
- Studentboth
- Studenti this hair
- StudentWhere did they come from?
- Studentwhat are we looking at now
- Studentwhat is this?
- Studentwhat are we looking at?
- Studentyeh
- StudentIs that hair
Bugscope Teamno it looks like hair but it is the fibers of probably nylon or another polymer that the shoelace is made of
- Studentmore pollen?
- Studentwhat is this??????
- Studentno
- Studentwhat is this picture
- Bugscope TeamTHIS IS SUSPECT A SHOELACE WITH SOME POLLEN GRAINS
- Studentok
- Studentwhat are the circular things on the hair
Bugscope Teamthe oval things we saw earlier were pollen grains, but we do not see any here
- StudentWhere are the pollen grains?
- Studentwhere r the pollon grains?
- Studentwhere r the grains
- Studentok my teacher is moving it
- Studentokay thank you
- Studentis their more dirt
- Bugscope Teamtry zooming out, then finding a pollen grain, then zoom in on it
- Bugscope Teamwhat we see is that pollen is not everywhere
- 11:20 am
- Studentthen that must meen this suspect did not go through the flower patch
- StudentIs this hair
- StudentHow come they are spread out when the shoelace looks like the strings are squeezed together
Bugscope Teamthis is high mag, so things do not look as compressed as they do at low mag
- Studenthow small are those pollyn grains
- StudentBy how much are they seperated from eachother?
- StudentThere is pollen, right
- Studentare other types of pollen bigger or smaller difrent shapes?
- Teacherlol just moving back to the preset...i'm a bad driver...
Bugscope Teamyou are doing great! hang in there
- Studentpolle
- Studentpollen
- Bugscope Teamah, there's some pollen!
- Studentwhy do some parts looked cracked?
- Studenty r the shoelaces coarse
Bugscope Teamthings look different when you zoom in this close
- Bugscope TeamWe can see some pollen grains now, one is near the bottom of the image
- Studentis this curlly hair
- Studentits hair
- Studentis this hair now?
- Studentso these are the particles of the shoe lace?
- StudentAre the seed like things pollen?
Bugscope Teamyep, you got it
- Bugscope TeamTHIS IS A SHOELACE, NOT HAIR
- Studentno yellin'
- StudentIs this one shoelace?
- Studento
- Studentare these the threads of the shoelace
Bugscope Teamyou are right!
- Bugscope Teamit looks like hair, but if you saw hair in the SEM you would see that it has regular ridges on it that get there as it grows
- Studenthow did the pollen get here
Bugscope TeamPollen is everywhere -- in the air, in soil, on objects. It's hard not to pick up pollen just by bumping into it or having it blow onto you
- Bugscope TeamWe're zoomed in so much you're seeing the individual fibers that make up the shoe-lace. That's why it looks like hair
- Studentok thank you
- Studentwho is bob
Bugscope TeamI think Bob might be the perp.
- Studentthe pollon grains look so cool
- Studentthats awesome!
- Studentrobert is bob
- StudentRobert is bob
- Studentwat!??
Bugscope Teamjust kidding
- Studentis that dirt?
- Studentwow thats cool 2 kno
- Studentthanks
- Studentwhy does it loook fuzzy is that mold
- Bugscope TeamTHIS IS SUSPECT B
- StudentWhy is the pollen so close?
Bugscope Teamit sticks to itself sometimes
Bugscope Teamgood question, sometimes it seems to bunch up. i'm not sure why?
- Studentits pollen i think
- Studentdoes that have lots of dirt?
- StudentAre the grainy stuff dirt?
- Studentwhat is that binding it together
- Studentis that mold?
Bugscope TeamIt doesn't look exactly like mold. It might just be dirt and such
- StudentRobert doesn't sound anything like Bob.
- Studenthow big is this
Bugscope Teamthis is about 1300 times magnified
- Studentis that lots of dirt under the pollen?
- Studentr those more pollen?
- StudentWhere are these pollens coming from?
- Bugscope Teamsure, there's some dirt, maybe some mold around this sample
- Studentwhat is that coarse stuff?
Bugscope Teamjuju
- Studentok thanks
- 11:25 am
- Studentwhat r those little grain looking things?
Bugscope Teamthe oval shaped things are the pollen
- Student stop using that word
Bugscope Teamsorry megan, i thought you liked it. we'll stop
- Bugscope Teammold spores actually look like pollen but often with smaller spikes
- Studentcoarse
- Studentthank you alex
- StudentWhere are these pollens coming from?
Bugscope TeamPollen is how plants reproduce. They get spread by insects and wind
- Studentwhat r the strip things
- StudentIs there bacteria in it?
Bugscope Teamwe could see bacteria if there were any but we do not
- Studentnot the pollon but it looks like its dirty
Bugscope Teamyes it is dirty
- Studenthehe juju
- Studentwhat word
- StudentMay I ask what word?
- Studentaww i liked that other picture
- Studentnnjjdhklajdsflasdj ol iioolo ; kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkl;
- Studentwat is that¿
- StudentIs that bacteria?
- Studentwhat r the pockets in the pollen?
- Bugscope TeamTHIS IS SUSPECT C, those ovals are pollen
- StudentCorbin.... I excuse you.
- Bugscope Teamsuspect C has those small ovoid pollen grains as well as the larger peanut like grains of pollen
- Studentsorry didnt mean to do that
- StudentIm back guys
- Studentwhat kind of pollen is that? do you know?
- Studentthank you
- Studentok
- Studentwhat kind of pollen was that
- StudentIs there Bacteria?
- StudentHow did the shoalace collect so much pollen?
Bugscope TeamPollen is released from plants like a dust. You can come into contact with it just walking through grass or bushes
- Studentwath is the pollen on
- Studenthey my screen went blank
Bugscope Teamtry F5, to refresh your screen
- Studentwhat kinda pollen
- StudentHow about toward the bottom? That's pollen, right? The non-spongey one?
Bugscope Teamyes it is another kind of pollen
- Studentits all pollen
- Studentwhat is that stuff in the right hand corner?
- Studentwhat r the little pockets?
- Bugscope Teamwhat is cool is that we have had Stargazer Lily pollen in the lab before, and it looks like the big cool-looking grains we see now.
- Studentwhat are those string things? haha
Bugscope Teamparts of the shoelaces
- Studentbottom sorry
- Studentis the pollen like a sponge
- Student♥yeh, wat
- Studentis there any mold here
Bugscope Teamwe have not see mold. mold spores often look like gum drops, or small pollen grains
- Studentthank you
- StudentIs there Bactria?
Bugscope Teamsometimes we can see bacteria, but i don't see any here now
- Studentcan we zoom out a little?
Bugscope Teamyour teacher can zoom out
- StudentOh thanks alex
- Studentyes please
- Studenti
- Studentno
- Teacherthey are finishing their final sketches...You guys are amazing! They were able to come up with a thief!
Bugscope TeamExcellent, great work!
- Studentojdgohkjpodghjkh[jklphkjpohkjohgkjohgkjoghkjopghkjotkjoltkyu[oiytuptoyijtyojk
- Studentwow this is sooooo cool
- Studentyay!
- StudentPlease, just please stop.
- Studentpollen
- Studentthanks for the help you guys
- Studentwhat is thestuff in the bottom right hand corner
Bugscope Teamthat is mushed up pollen
- Bugscope TeamIvy!
- StudentYes!
- StudentBye
- Bugscope TeamGOOD WORK, I'LL MAKE SURE NOT TO COMMIT ANY CRIMES OR ELSE YOU GENIUSES WILL CATCH ME!!!
- Studentthank you!
- Studentthanks
- Studentthanx sooo much for ur help i appreciate it
- Studentthank you you guys are awesome!!!!!
- StudentThank you so much.
- 11:30 am
- StudentThanks!
Bugscope TeamThank you!
- StudentIm have to leave thx
- Studentthank you! bye
- StudentThank You.
- Studentthnx guys have a wonderful day
- Studentno yellin`¿♣
Bugscope Teamheh sorry Bob, glad you are not the perp
- Studentthank you guys in illinois
- Bugscope Teamgarcie, remember that all the chat and images from today's session are saved to your member page: http://bugscope.beckman.illinois.edu/members/2009-139
- Bugscope Teamyou all did great, good work
- Bugscope TeamCari I think I figured it out!
- Bugscope TeamLet us know if you have other questions. Did you get everything you needed?
