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A person is firing tennis balls at high speed and frequency form a serving machine. After a few seconds, sounds of impact and cries of pain can be heard out of frame. The person's colleague says, "OK, there's definitely a person over there. Let's do one more pass to try to measure their height." The caption reads, "Electrons are small and hard to work with, so some scientists have developed a scanning tennis ball microscope instead."

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A person is firing tennis balls at high speed and frequency form a serving machine. After a few seconds, sounds of impact and cries of pain can be heard out of frame. The person's colleague says, "OK, there's definitely a person over there. Let's do one more pass to try to measure their height." The caption reads, "Electrons are small and hard to work with, so some scientists have developed a scanning tennis ball microscope instead."
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Khurram Wadee ✅ (mkwadee@mastodon.org.uk)'s status on Thursday, 24-Apr-2025 18:32:43 JST Khurram Wadee ✅

#xkcd: #TennisBalls
https://xkcd.com/3080/
#Humour #Cartoon

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