A Microscopic View of Frost

Our summer is bad enough without you starting on the winter topics...

brrrrrrrrrrrr.

(Isn't is Jack wot does it?)

I thought it was an interesting picture showing the apparently random arrangement of crystals forming an artistically constructed appearance that....all right, I'll shut up....

Actually it is Very nice...like a piece of sculpture....

Interestingly..or probably not...zzz. I missread the original as GLASS...not grass.

'Cos of course you get those weird patterns on class...probably not nowadays that we're all cossetted in our namby pamby central heated houses but whan i was a kid it was lino in the bedroom and when we woke up on a winter's morning there was frost on the inside of the windows...oooh no these youngsters today are spoiled with their two foreign holidays a year and the trips to bl**dy Euro Disney and Alton Bl***dy towers..lock 'em all up I say...driving on the pavements on their mini motos bought by their simpering parents who should know better out at all hours day and night with their bootles of vodka and their bl**dy pet Rotweillers...Ooo deary me a good dose of a frosty bedroom...that'd sort 'em out better than yer Asbos and yer comunity service and yer two holidays... etc

(Joke folks... don't shoot)

What! Real Lino? You were lucky.....blah...blah...blah...

You had windows?!!!

You will be saying next you actually had glass in them as well!!

Now back when I was knee high to a grasshopper we had a hole in the wall and straw on the floor plus there were 10 of us to a room, did we complain? naww, it were luxury compared to our neighbours...

John.

A hole in the wall! God, what luxury! We had an empty shoe box that made do for my family and we ate nowt but the scrapings from beneath our toenails! Did we complain, only when some posh town house kid stole our straw!

Well when I wer a kid we 'ad t' get up t' go down't pit b'fore we'd even gone t'bed

Very interesting.

Is it really a random structure? The crystals are perpendicular to the grass blade, at least the longest and the external ones. I wonder how the begining of this structure will be (bottom to top? will the crystals plates formed adyacent to the grass blade, paralel or perpendicular?).

I like it, looks like supermans fortress.

I got all you guys beat. When I was a kid, we were so poor that my dad would give me a dime for my supper. Then in the middle of the night, he would reach under my trousers (I wadded them up for a pillow) and steal the dime back. Then in the morning, he would beat me for loosing the dime. You guys had it made with your shoeboxes and all that fancy crap.

In fact, the best Christmas present I ever got was a hole in my pocket so I would have something to play with. (I was seven, I think, we were so poor, we got birth hours, we couldn't afford a whole day)