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Where can one purchase a microscope in Melbourne?
« on: April 08, 2012, 08:47:17 pm »
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Just curious. Is it possible to get one?

I heard all the top 50 achievers in bio have a microscope.
Is this true?

If so, where can I get one?

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Re: Where can one purchase a microscope in Melbourne?
« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2012, 09:16:32 pm »
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Just curious. Is it possible to get one?

I heard all the top 50 achievers in bio have a microscope.
Is this true?

If so, where can I get one?
Well I've got a crappy microscope, sometimes I've used it to observe mites attacking my garden plants. Nah I don't think it's true that all 50 top achievers have microscopes.

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Re: Where can one purchase a microscope in Melbourne?
« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2012, 11:39:48 pm »
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Just curious. Is it possible to get one?

I heard all the top 50 achievers in bio have a microscope.
Is this true?

If so, where can I get one?
Well I've got a crappy microscope, sometimes I've used it to observe mites attacking my garden plants. Nah I don't think it's true that all 50 top achievers have microscopes.

Where did you get it?

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Re: Where can one purchase a microscope in Melbourne?
« Reply #3 on: April 09, 2012, 07:51:36 am »
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Just curious. Is it possible to get one?

I heard all the top 50 achievers in bio have a microscope.
Is this true?

If so, where can I get one?
Well I've got a crappy microscope, sometimes I've used it to observe mites attacking my garden plants. Nah I don't think it's true that all 50 top achievers have microscopes.

Where did you get it?
It came from a junk pile, but you can try to look for one from a hobby shop. There a are few in the city.

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Re: Where can one purchase a microscope in Melbourne?
« Reply #4 on: April 09, 2012, 08:32:20 am »
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a) you don't need one
b) good microscopes are really expensive so see a)

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Re: Where can one purchase a microscope in Melbourne?
« Reply #5 on: April 09, 2012, 10:13:26 am »
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If you really want one, try Australian
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Re: Where can one purchase a microscope in Melbourne?
« Reply #6 on: April 09, 2012, 02:27:42 pm »
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a) you don't need one
b) good microscopes are really expensive so see a)

Yeah I figured but how expensive are we talking about here Russ.

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Re: Where can one purchase a microscope in Melbourne?
« Reply #7 on: April 09, 2012, 03:57:02 pm »
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$100+?

For something you don't need, I'd quantify that as pretty pricey

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Re: Where can one purchase a microscope in Melbourne?
« Reply #8 on: April 09, 2012, 07:01:03 pm »
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Are you joking? What you've heard doesn't make any logical sense....

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Re: Where can one purchase a microscope in Melbourne?
« Reply #9 on: April 09, 2012, 07:08:06 pm »
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I had a microscope once, it worked well with my tweezers biol knowldge. Let's just say that the 'experiments' conducted with this microscope made me a very happy man.

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Re: Where can one purchase a microscope in Melbourne?
« Reply #10 on: April 09, 2012, 07:57:01 pm »
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I've done VCE bio+3 years of biology related subjects at uni and am now doing medicine and i don't have a microscope. I hardly see the justification to get one. Admittedly i didnt get 50 in bio but a few of my friends did and they didn't get microscopes. Just study hard and you will do well, and if you are very keen then I'm sure your biology teacher would be happy to arrange a time for you to use the schools microscopes.
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Re: Where can one purchase a microscope in Melbourne?
« Reply #11 on: April 10, 2012, 04:12:38 pm »
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Yeah you really dont microscopes...especially for the level of VCE bio. All you'll be able to see is whole cells and VCE bio doesn't even deal with that all that much. That and you lack the necessary chemicals to histiologically stain the cells to properly see things...so theres that.

Maybe in uni, i know i could use a microscope. I have like 4 or 5 slices of different cells (including a slice of a pancreas) we've stained at uni and took them home. Now, that is useful, for VCE bio, not at all to be honest. If you are interested, maybe but you'll get bored quickly.

Something like this (http://cloud.med.nyu.edu/virtualmicroscope/) is probably more educational, you'll need a good histology book to be able to understand what you're looking at. Once again, way beyond VCE, in no way shape or form do you actually need a microscope.
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Re: Where can one purchase a microscope in Melbourne?
« Reply #12 on: April 10, 2012, 07:18:29 pm »
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Maybe watching tiny mites crawling around might be entertaining

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Re: Where can one purchase a microscope in Melbourne?
« Reply #13 on: April 11, 2012, 08:12:38 pm »
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I heard all the top 50 achievers in bio have a microscope.
Is this true?

No.