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333: Nathan Myhrvold

Cool Tools

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The Snowflake Photographer Machine

Bentley Bentley took thousands of snowflake photos in the nineteenth century. He lived near lake champlain, which has a creates what's called lake effect snow. His camera was enormous, and the lens was outside, and the rest of him was built inside in a room. So now my version of that, as i take i've a snowflake microscope, or the whole snowflake mikes. It lives inside a big opelicon case. You might see something racing aroundi be like this point of light racing around a here. Even though those are flashing one at a time, it'll seem like they're all flashing within half a second.

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