What do you do when you're waiting for a game to release? Go back and visit some old classics? Distract yourself by picking up a new hobby? Or do you draw the world's teeniest-tiniest Hornet that can only be observed under a microscope? Because that's what this one hopeful did.
In ritualistic preparation for a Nintendo Direct that did not produce fruit, weaponised state-of-the-art technology to draw an itsy-bisty hornet on a piece of "positive tone resist" called ZEP520A.
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They achieved this via a process called "Electron Beam Lithography, which allows extremely high resolution by firing a narrow beam of electrons at a resist material, causing it to harden." Given r/Silksong's charming propensity to meme itself [[link]] into the occult, I looked it up and—yep, turns out you can absolutely .
This is all a few thousand nanometers above my scientific knowledge, but best I can tell, if you fire electrons at a specific material, you can change how soluble (dissolvable) it is. Dunk it in some solvent, removing either the stuff you fired electrons at (or the stuff you didn't) and [[link]] boom, you've got a drawing.
The documentation for . I'm sure these are the proper scientific terms, but I find it very amusing that an instruction manual for a state-of-the-art material has the step "bake for 3 minutes at 180C" in it. All it's missing is salt and pepper to taste.
The result? "Hornet here is about 1/5 the width of a strand of silk, or about 2 bacteria long." The drawing is, rous6 claims, about four [[link]] microns wide (a micron is 1,000 nanometers). Or, as they put it, "about 8000 times smaller than a true scale hornet".
It's a genuinely impressive use of some genuinely impressive technology, and a sure sign of further madness from the r/Silksong subreddit, which is currently doing, uh, via an admittedly very cool , and hounding after further . Hey, at least they haven't .
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