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bunsen_h ([personal profile] bunsen_h) wrote2009-10-31 05:49 pm
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Scary stuff

This year's jack o'lantern.

Sick pumpkin, semi-profile

[identity profile] radargrrl.livejournal.com 2009-10-31 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Is it even possible to dress up like an H1N1 virus?

No idea about Hallowe'en costuming...

[identity profile] dewline.livejournal.com 2009-11-01 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
...but I've seen plush toys for any number of other virii and bacteriae profiled in Wired or somesuch magazine. Wish I could remember exactly who made those toys and if they're still in business.

Re: No idea about Hallowe'en costuming...

[identity profile] dewline.livejournal.com 2009-11-01 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Oui! C'est exacte! Merci beaucoup!!!

*triumphal jumping in glee over having the memory successfully kickstarted*

Re: No idea about Hallowe'en costuming...

[identity profile] foms.livejournal.com 2009-11-02 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Y'a rien là.

[identity profile] bunsen-h.livejournal.com 2009-11-01 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sure it's possible. But I don't know what an H1N1 virus particle looks like, and I don't think most other people do either, so some kind of symbolic representation would probably be better than a realistic depiction.

[identity profile] dewline.livejournal.com 2009-11-01 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
Those plush toys I mentioned above were designed for both "cute" and "scientifically/visually accurate" factors, I believe. Although some of the virii that they chose to give this treatment to left me shaking my head in surprise.

[identity profile] i-and-t.livejournal.com 2009-11-01 12:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I've seen a few depictions of EM shots of it being a very unexciting round with little hair like projections off the side. i have just seen them as back ground visuals on the news, but i have seen them on a couple of different news channels for whatever that is worth.
i.

[identity profile] i-and-t.livejournal.com 2009-11-01 12:35 pm (UTC)(link)
That is a wonderfully SCARRRRRY pumpkin, and very apropos!

( i was barred from any hallowe'en festivities, for fear of spreading my plague...)

i.