# Has anyone else seen these gorgeous snowflake photos? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 15, 2006, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-seen-these-gorgeous-snowflake-photos/340076 "2006-01-15T09:00:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2006, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-seen-these-gorgeous-snowflake-photos/340076/1 "2006-01-15T09:00:33Z")
I just got done reading a [news article](http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060113/sc_space/photosshowitstruenotwosnowflakesalike) about a new postage stamp design, and was so taken by the photos on them that I followed the link trail to the [physics Professor’s site](http://www.snowcrystals.com/). There are some fascinating, beautiful photos there. [Here](http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/igviewer.php?imgid=505&gid=35) is a gallery of some images from LiveScience as well. Just thought I’d share the photos here. Hope you enjoy them. [SUB]If this is more suited to MPSIMS, then so be it. I felt it could fit here due to the focus on the artform though.[/SUB] ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2006, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-seen-these-gorgeous-snowflake-photos/340076/2 "2006-01-15T09:41:32Z")
Oddly enough, I’ve apparently been to the site before, since the link was grey instead of blue, but I don’t remember having seen it. Very cool stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2006, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-seen-these-gorgeous-snowflake-photos/340076/3 "2006-01-15T14:39:19Z")
The link was grey for me too, though I have never been to it as far as I can remember. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2006, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-seen-these-gorgeous-snowflake-photos/340076/4 "2006-01-15T14:53:17Z")
Which link, the one from LiveScience, the news story, or the Professor’s site? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2006, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-seen-these-gorgeous-snowflake-photos/340076/5 "2006-01-15T14:54:54Z")
The professor’s site. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2006, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-seen-these-gorgeous-snowflake-photos/340076/6 "2006-01-15T15:04:27Z")
What a coincidence! [I started another thread about snow crystals last week. It has backgroundinfo on them as well.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=353827) ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2006, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-seen-these-gorgeous-snowflake-photos/340076/7 "2006-01-15T15:07:23Z")
To be fair, I did a search and it came up with nothing recent. Problem is, I searched for snow **flake** , not snow **crystal**. Pardon me. Were the postage stamps unveiled at that point too, **Maastricht**? ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2006, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-seen-these-gorgeous-snowflake-photos/340076/8 "2006-01-16T00:23:36Z")
> [@Zabali\_Clawbane](#): > > Which link, the one from LiveScience, the news story, or the Professor’s site? 😕 For me it was the news story.