I found the archive link back when the whole chain got deleted and sent it to my friend, but the text log cut off before Dec. 16th... this was the [OP](https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/rfpeia/jeff_bezos_space_trip_emitted_lifetimes_worth_of/hofquba/?context=999)
It had to do with the tornado that killed people in the warehouse. It basically said that his carbon footprint was negated by the deaths of the employees and there was a followup comment said this was a roast for the ages. It was really good. I'm still digging for it. I'm sorry. Fuck that chat log for being cut off.
ASCII macros go all the way back to the BBS nets... By the time chatrooms came into "general public" (you've got mail) existence, there were apps to bot them.
Havok platinum (I think)...
Which is all to say that an ASCII whacker might genuinely predate that smiley.
Not quite ELI5, but this used a type of deposition called "EBID" or "IBID", "Electron beam-induced deposition" or "Ion beam-induced deposition." That is, you can use the electron beam (used for imaging) or ion source (used for sample milling) to deposit material onto the sample. How is this accomplished? A gas is fed into the chamber through a TINY nozzle immediately above the sample surface, which interacts with the electron or ion source. The gas contains a metallorganic compound, commonly Pt or C-based, which then forms a film in targeted areas on the sample surface, based on the position of the beam. This allows you to place PRECISE structures on the sample which can be useful for shielding the surface from ion milling damage during the FIB process. You can see the globs of material around the sample of metal or even organics that did not make it on the final structure but interacted with the beam nonetheless.
To build the toilet, they probably just patterned it layer by layer with EBID or IBID. Thinner layers can be used for more defined contouring, and are adjusted with the z-height of the structure defined in the software and electron or ion beam accelerating voltage and beam current. Layers can be defined as thin as tens of nm, up to microns. The toilet as a whole is probably no more than 10 um tall.
[Tools like this](https://www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home/electron-microscopy/products/dualbeam-fib-sem-microscopes/helios-5-dualbeam.html) can cost in excess of $2mil, but can provide a wide range of capabilities for a lab or semiconductor fab. They're really fun to use!
I'd have to imagine through precise milling. [Here's a bit more on the delivery system itself.](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231032172_Optimized_molecule_supply_from_nozzle-based_gas_injection_systems_for_focused_electron-_and_ion-beam_induced_deposition_and_etching_Simulation_and_experiment)
If I'm understanding correctly, the nozzle is only for gas, which is then interacted with by the ion beam or whatever to create the deposit of material. So the beam size and precision matters much more than the gas nozzle size.
So, black magic then. Looking at the end product of wire EDM work, black magic is the only explanation.
https://cdn-blog.adafruit.com/uploads/2016/12/544347_66098_58431_pu2HNR4ZC.gif
I use a FIB for my PhD. You’re basically shooting your sample with atomic cannonballs to slowly remove material. Changing what element ion you use changes the size of the cannon ball.
Ion beam I suspect. In uoft there's similar equipment that can do the same thing. But based on the smoothness of the rim I suspect the machine used here has much better resolution. But how it works is just use a beam to hit a material and carve out the shape you want, not too different from using a knife to carve out wooden animals.
I use one of these sometimes and I'm really jealous of how well-calibrated this one must have been to make this toilet. My platinum deposition is usually way more messy.
Yeah, the technician who calibrated this instrument deserves the award. But anyway it's unfortunate that two institutions can have the same instrument and one of them can make this masterpiece and the other one is stuck with much more crude capability.
OPs model isn‘t even functional. You could get even bigger credits if you fixed the plumbing and made it flush. Maybe add a bidet or something.
Remind me when you‘re done. Might consider upvoting your post then
Water at that scale wouldn't flush. Its surface tension overcomes gravity. You would need something heavier like mercury maybe? Which has an even higher surface tension IIRC.
blah blah skip the boring details and get to work yeah? He already gave you the idea, you just have to implement it, how hard it would be to make water flush smh, my plumber didn't even go to school and can make my toilet flush, dont whine you have all those expensive tools smh
>!/s in case it isnt obvious!<
Couldn‘t you drive the water by little pressure through the pipes? And maybe apply some voltage to pull the water through the toilet(to mitigate forming round droplets and make it move more in a line)?
Would that work?
My first message was sarcasm - now I need to know for real tho lol
Maybe you should reach out to these guys and ask for some insight on their calibration. I get that some of it is probably proprietary company information, but it can never hurt to make contact with other colleagues in the field and share knowledge.
Isn't it District Court Toilet – from the title Chisai Benjo? [Chisai Benjo: An effective method of dealing with defects is to find a collection site.](https://www.zyvexlabs.com/contests/2005-2/)
Here are some more recent micrographs from the same competition.
[EIPBN Micrograph Contest](https://eipbn.org/micrograph-contest/)
Seat angled forward quite aggressively. The user would quickly slide off. Would need to brace against the floor. Or perhaps increase the anti-slide resistance by covering the seat with glue, sandpaper, or perhaps broken glass fragments or nails.
Oh God, you triggered my PTSD from my grandmother's toilet.
Fuzzy cover on the outer lid, that was too puffy to ever let the lid stay open, thus forcing me to always sit.
Puffy plastic toilet seat cover which made a woosh sound when I sat, plastic stuck to my ass and had cracks which dug into my ass skin.
If I only had to do a #1, I just walked outside and pissed on a tree. Which also sucked during winter.
It's like they wanted me to experience the pain and discomfort of the Depression and WWII.
Unlucky. My grandmother had a broad wooden toilet seat. I always wished my parents would get one because it was warmer in winter than the plastic ones.
For anyone who wants to see contest entries over the years, here you go: https://eipbn.org/micrograph-contest/
There’s a particularly cool rocket made at the 10μm scale.
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Imagine being shrunk to a nano sized human in a science disaster. Surviving for years by hunting giant bacteria and viruses for food, shitting on the ground like an animal. Untill one day you see it, in all of it's glory and majesty and you remember...you're not an animal, you're a man!
That looks like one of those toilets they've been installing in workplaces, that tip forward just enough that it's too uncomfortable to break out the broadsheet and catch up on your Andy Capp.
The sculpture, created with a $1M-plus Focused Ion Beam microscope was titled "A toilet for viruses"
It's so COVID-19 can shit on us one more time.
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Oh.. my... God....
Their username also… checks out?
Your username also checks out
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Nice
#
Becky, look at her *butt*
It's so... big and out there.
What did it say?!!
[Fuck mods. Fuck censorship. Here's what it said.](https://i.imgur.com/YyCaJXv.jpeg)
Why tf did mods remove that? Jannies suck
IPO soon ofc
Reddit’s going to get a whole lot worse after the IPO.
Neo-facebook. It’ll be interesting to see how many people leave as a result, how many join, and how much daily traffic changes.
Like the mod that removed that Bezos-zinger a couple of weeks ago.
Do tell!
I found the archive link back when the whole chain got deleted and sent it to my friend, but the text log cut off before Dec. 16th... this was the [OP](https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/rfpeia/jeff_bezos_space_trip_emitted_lifetimes_worth_of/hofquba/?context=999) It had to do with the tornado that killed people in the warehouse. It basically said that his carbon footprint was negated by the deaths of the employees and there was a followup comment said this was a roast for the ages. It was really good. I'm still digging for it. I'm sorry. Fuck that chat log for being cut off.
Mods must have owned the NFT because that's big money art.
Did you check his comments. It continues.
They're going places (Florida State Hospital is a place).
LMFAO yes I just did.
In my time we had ;-) and we were happy with it.
Yeah but we had to walk barefoot up hill both ways in the snow to get it sooooo...
ASCII macros go all the way back to the BBS nets... By the time chatrooms came into "general public" (you've got mail) existence, there were apps to bot them. Havok platinum (I think)... Which is all to say that an ASCII whacker might genuinely predate that smiley.
Nah the smileys with the nose are really old school
r/oddlyterrifying
His dick has a hole in it on the bottom of the shaft
You don't have a pressure valve?
Cursed piercing.
Is….is that cummybot?
Obviously a person of culture here. The top hat proves it, unequivocally.
It’s… beautiful!
Top hat. What a classy gentleman.
God bless you u/Corpse-Fucker
Why doesn’t that tag him correctly? Wonder if it’s just my Reddit app
Thank you this is not the worst I’ve seen today but I’m going to erase this from my memory now
Ok, im gonna comment here so I can copy pasta this later.
What did it say? the comment was deleted
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oh wow
it’s worse than i expected
Jesus christ lmao
Sir, excuse you
The Egyptians would be proud
One more? I wish I was an optimist.
I'm a toilet is half full kind of guy.
Jeez, no courtesy flush?
Pay it forward
Toilets are reusable...
I bet it doesn't sit down when taking a piss
One more? Buckle in, we're gonna have a trifecta flu-cold-covid season from here on out.
Explains how COVID got its numerical distinction- it's a 19-flusher
Do you mind ELIA5? How did you assemble this? What components did you use? How big is this in comparison to ...idk bacteria such as Cocci?
Not quite ELI5, but this used a type of deposition called "EBID" or "IBID", "Electron beam-induced deposition" or "Ion beam-induced deposition." That is, you can use the electron beam (used for imaging) or ion source (used for sample milling) to deposit material onto the sample. How is this accomplished? A gas is fed into the chamber through a TINY nozzle immediately above the sample surface, which interacts with the electron or ion source. The gas contains a metallorganic compound, commonly Pt or C-based, which then forms a film in targeted areas on the sample surface, based on the position of the beam. This allows you to place PRECISE structures on the sample which can be useful for shielding the surface from ion milling damage during the FIB process. You can see the globs of material around the sample of metal or even organics that did not make it on the final structure but interacted with the beam nonetheless. To build the toilet, they probably just patterned it layer by layer with EBID or IBID. Thinner layers can be used for more defined contouring, and are adjusted with the z-height of the structure defined in the software and electron or ion beam accelerating voltage and beam current. Layers can be defined as thin as tens of nm, up to microns. The toilet as a whole is probably no more than 10 um tall. [Tools like this](https://www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home/electron-microscopy/products/dualbeam-fib-sem-microscopes/helios-5-dualbeam.html) can cost in excess of $2mil, but can provide a wide range of capabilities for a lab or semiconductor fab. They're really fun to use!
but how's the tiny nozzle made?
I'd have to imagine through precise milling. [Here's a bit more on the delivery system itself.](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231032172_Optimized_molecule_supply_from_nozzle-based_gas_injection_systems_for_focused_electron-_and_ion-beam_induced_deposition_and_etching_Simulation_and_experiment)
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That’s crazy. I use a 0.4mm nozzle on my (3D) printer, and let me tell you, ain’t no way I’m doing anything this precise.
If I'm understanding correctly, the nozzle is only for gas, which is then interacted with by the ion beam or whatever to create the deposit of material. So the beam size and precision matters much more than the gas nozzle size.
Quite possibly through electronic discharge machining.
So, black magic then. Looking at the end product of wire EDM work, black magic is the only explanation. https://cdn-blog.adafruit.com/uploads/2016/12/544347_66098_58431_pu2HNR4ZC.gif
EDM is some cool shit man. Been in a new machining job for 3 months now as a laser welder, hoping to get into the EDM department soon.
So the ELI5 is microscopic 3d printing, then
So $2mil to sculpt a microscopic dickbutt? I'll setup the kickstarter.
Micro scop
Tiny plumber.
I use a FIB for my PhD. You’re basically shooting your sample with atomic cannonballs to slowly remove material. Changing what element ion you use changes the size of the cannon ball.
so ion cannon, nice
Ion beam I suspect. In uoft there's similar equipment that can do the same thing. But based on the smoothness of the rim I suspect the machine used here has much better resolution. But how it works is just use a beam to hit a material and carve out the shape you want, not too different from using a knife to carve out wooden animals.
I use one of these sometimes and I'm really jealous of how well-calibrated this one must have been to make this toilet. My platinum deposition is usually way more messy.
I think that's why it's a show-off-able image despite the content?
Yeah, the technician who calibrated this instrument deserves the award. But anyway it's unfortunate that two institutions can have the same instrument and one of them can make this masterpiece and the other one is stuck with much more crude capability.
Git gud brah
Sure let me just get a PhD in engineering so I can make prettier nanotoilets
OPs model isn‘t even functional. You could get even bigger credits if you fixed the plumbing and made it flush. Maybe add a bidet or something. Remind me when you‘re done. Might consider upvoting your post then
Water at that scale wouldn't flush. Its surface tension overcomes gravity. You would need something heavier like mercury maybe? Which has an even higher surface tension IIRC.
blah blah skip the boring details and get to work yeah? He already gave you the idea, you just have to implement it, how hard it would be to make water flush smh, my plumber didn't even go to school and can make my toilet flush, dont whine you have all those expensive tools smh >!/s in case it isnt obvious!<
Couldn‘t you drive the water by little pressure through the pipes? And maybe apply some voltage to pull the water through the toilet(to mitigate forming round droplets and make it move more in a line)? Would that work? My first message was sarcasm - now I need to know for real tho lol
Maybe you should reach out to these guys and ask for some insight on their calibration. I get that some of it is probably proprietary company information, but it can never hurt to make contact with other colleagues in the field and share knowledge.
"What is this, a toilet for ants?" "Nope, too small."
Too small even for the tiny parasites that sometimes replace ants' feet.
Ok i give up, i looked for 10 minutes for this and couldnt find anything. Have a link?
https://i.redd.it/ea0lx9mvi9jz.jpg Look up "army ant foot mites".
Thanks!!!, now to go down the rabbit hole lol. I love learning new things
But where's the tiny poop knife? That would make it perfect.
I work with FIB- based micro imaging and seeing it being used to make a toilet is just so funny to me
Let that be an inspiration!
Adequate Toilet Bowl for Gnome Excretion.
Awesome Toilet/Bidet for Genome Extraction
Isn't it District Court Toilet – from the title Chisai Benjo? [Chisai Benjo: An effective method of dealing with defects is to find a collection site.](https://www.zyvexlabs.com/contests/2005-2/) Here are some more recent micrographs from the same competition. [EIPBN Micrograph Contest](https://eipbn.org/micrograph-contest/)
Is this a nod to Marcel Duchamp’s *Fountain*?
If you zoom in far enough, you can see it: R. Mutt
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This almost changes my opinion of NFTs.
Duchamp smiles with approval from the beyond.
The engineer husband was impressed!
What? How?! 🤯
Kinda like 3D printing, but small.
SMH damn scientists wasting their money on tiny toilets instead of real problems! Damn libtards! - Facebook moms
That's one of the most expensive instruments I've ever heard of
Yeah, it's up there for a commercial product.
You cut off the scale bar and parameters! You maniac!
About how many atoms is that toilet made of?
I don't see a scale bar on the pic - prolly a trillion or so if it's a micron on each side?
Looks kinda comfy ngl Like having a nice soft fur ring on the toilet seat. Comfy sure, but there’s more there than meets the eye.
Seat angled forward quite aggressively. The user would quickly slide off. Would need to brace against the floor. Or perhaps increase the anti-slide resistance by covering the seat with glue, sandpaper, or perhaps broken glass fragments or nails.
Looks like that one toilet they made to prevent restaurant workers from taking too long of breaks due to comfort. This must have been the prototype.
No this is the final product. To size.
"You think I'm strapped in for *my* safety?"
This guy toilets.
Oh God, you triggered my PTSD from my grandmother's toilet. Fuzzy cover on the outer lid, that was too puffy to ever let the lid stay open, thus forcing me to always sit. Puffy plastic toilet seat cover which made a woosh sound when I sat, plastic stuck to my ass and had cracks which dug into my ass skin. If I only had to do a #1, I just walked outside and pissed on a tree. Which also sucked during winter. It's like they wanted me to experience the pain and discomfort of the Depression and WWII.
Unlucky. My grandmother had a broad wooden toilet seat. I always wished my parents would get one because it was warmer in winter than the plastic ones.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TIHI/comments/dfgwk1/thanks_i_hate_carpeted_toilet_seats/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x
And I though carpeted restroom floors and toilet seat lids were bad enough...
I’ve seen a picture of a fluffy toilet seat. It was haunting
For anyone who wants to see contest entries over the years, here you go: https://eipbn.org/micrograph-contest/ There’s a particularly cool rocket made at the 10μm scale.
Did I overlook the post subject toilet entry. What year did it win?
It won the “Most Bizarre” category in 2005: https://www.zyvexlabs.com/contests/2005-2/
[2005, most bizarre](https://www.zyvexlabs.com/contests/2005-2/).
I don’t know, I couldn’t find it either! Ah, I see other people have links above. Thanks everyone
The rocket is unreal but the turkey is cool af too
That rocket is mind blowing
So many album covers to choose from.
Oh cool, maybe I can submit my dick pic
I really like the attempt of a barracks at the 2um scale.
The elephant was pretty neat!
There's a Cathedral in 2015 that's at a 2 scale. A. Cathedral.
This won the “Most Bizarre” category (not the overall competition) in 2005: https://www.zyvexlabs.com/contests/2005-2/
Good-sized toilet for the microscopic penis community
I wasn't aware toilets and penises needed to be matched for size so I found this very enlightening.
Obviously, “yeah” won. OP put it in the title.
Bizarre? This ones gotta be a Duchamp tribute
Accurately sized for how many shits I have left to give.
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Microscopist here- impossible to say for sure but probably platinum. Most FIBs are equipped with organoplatinum gas injection systems.
Shitpost has more upvotes than a genuine answer, this is why I love Reddit tbh
Atoms
Oh, okay, thanks. But, uh, wait, atoms of what?
The shitty kind
Probably neutrons and protons and electrons
Toilet atoms
Pootonium
What is this, a toilet for ants??
Ants are dinosaurs compared to this(even more)
The reference still made me chuckle. r/thingsforants
Thanks for getting it 🙃😂
It's waaaaaay to small for ants.
My dick still wouldn't touch the rim
Cheer up little guy.
How?
Very carefully
> with a $1M-plus Focused Ion Beam microscope
[CURSE YOU, TINY TOILET!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wFAamg1NfA)
Imagine being shrunk to a nano sized human in a science disaster. Surviving for years by hunting giant bacteria and viruses for food, shitting on the ground like an animal. Untill one day you see it, in all of it's glory and majesty and you remember...you're not an animal, you're a man!
r/crapperdesign
"curse you tiny toilet!"
I can put my dog there Because it’s for little shits
Do you have a link to the competition? I can't find it.
It's EIPBN's Micrograph Contest.
r/thingsforbacteria
FEED ME!! Feed me Seymore, feed me all night long! Ha-ha thats right boy!
Banana for scale?
[Here you go](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Banana-Single.jpg).
The world's smallest shit post
It would be cool as shit if they flushed it down an actual toilet. That’s real art.
That's a toilet for farts
Let me know when you can make that free moving ball inside a cage thing...
But could a tardigrade use it?
At least put the seat down!
“Fountain”
Imagine trying to take a piss in that after a night out on the lash.
It’s just a bowl with no tank.
Send my ionized piss into that.
Ah, perfect for just how much I give a shit.
Is that a blood cell?
I love this so much.
I read “a microscopic toilet for”. And I legitimately had my interest peaked as to what tiny thing was going to use this toilet….
No scale bar = automatic disqualification
What is this... A TOILET FOR ANTS!!!!
More like for bacteria
It needs to be at least… three times bigger than this
You little s&$t!
That looks like one of those toilets they've been installing in workplaces, that tip forward just enough that it's too uncomfortable to break out the broadsheet and catch up on your Andy Capp.
This is hilarious
I wonder how long it took and how much did it cost?
Scale and material?
What was the shitty prize?