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May 14, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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STUNNING VISUAL DETAILS revealed with new high-tech digital microscope...
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Alright, welcome folks.
I'm Mike Adams of Brighttown.com and we have our new microscope up and running and I wanted to give you a demonstration of it today.
And as you can see, we have the full microscope right there.
Alright, so there's the microscope.
Looks a little bit like an alien, but it's very, very capable.
And it's got so many incredible features.
I want to kind of show you this.
The advantages of what it's going to allow us to do.
I'm going to show you some natural samples.
I've got some pine needles.
I've got some rocks.
I've got some Himalayan salt crystals.
I want to familiarize you with what this microscope is capable of because, as you know, in the past, we've had difficulty with focusing.
We've had difficulty tracking moving objects, whatever little life forms are cruising across the microscope.
I couldn't track them very easily because I was doing that manually.
But now we have digital control over the stage.
And then also, this microscope has greatly improved depth of focus, even at high magnification.
And this magnification goes up to 2500x.
So, go ahead and jump to the screen.
And I'm going to show you, just give you a little demo of this.
Alright, so this is a one-ounce silver coin, the Republic of Texas.
And the first thing I want to show you is that I can digitally now move around like this.
I'm panning.
And this is only a 5x.
Magnification right now.
And what I'm going to show you is how we can zoom in and get a lot more detail than we could previously.
Now watch, as I zoom in, this is going to automatically change lenses.
Watch the scope.
It rotates and then it brings in the new lens.
Now you can see...
That we are looking at, what do we have?
We have a magnification of 20 right now, and I can pan around here digitally, and we can decide that we want to look at some things in more detail.
So being that we're in Texas, let's go look at the corner of the T here.
And we're going to zoom in on the corner of the T, and it's going to change lenses again.
It's going to go right to where we want it.
It also has autofocus, which I'll demonstrate in a minute.
We're at 50x.
I'm going to go into, I think, 200x, or I think this is 150.
Okay.
Now we're at 150x, and we're looking at the corner of this T of Texas.
And you notice that there are some height variations here.
There's a focus issue with the top of the T. So I can now digitally control that with my hand, and there we have the top of the T in focus.
And I can easily pan around and track things.
Or, if I wanted to focus on this silver splotch here, I can just click an autofocus key, and it's going to bring that into automatic focus where my cursor is.
So that's another really cool thing.
I can also double-click, and it's going to do an autofocus there.
I can click and drag with the mouse, so I can follow things as they move across the screen.
And let's say that I find something really interesting, like, hey, what is this little splotch here?
And I really want to zoom in some more.
So we're going to go to 500x now.
And again, it's going to change the lenses.
It's going to zoom in.
And then I can easily focus on that, or I can autofocus if I wish.
Let me bring that kind of splotch area into more focus here.
You see how much control we have over focus now?
It's really extraordinary.
And again, we're not even close to the limit of the magnification here.
So I'm going to go in even more.
We're going to go all the way up to 2500x.
It's going to bring that into focus in just a second here.
And now here we are.
I have z-axis control over this.
We're actually looking at something that's pretty tall.
But I have z-axis control of 0.1 microns per step.
And I know a lot of that's out of focus right now.
So let me hit autofocus.
And let's see if it can bring it in.
With a little bit better focus.
Well, that's difficult, this magnification.
But I can manually now move through.
And you see that splotch there?
Look at that.
I can actually get that.
So I'm looking at this kind of orange splotch.
Okay?
So I'm going to do what's called a depth-up analysis to get everything in focus here together.
So here we go.
Let me show you this.
It's going to step through the entire depth of field here, and it's going to then assemble a final image, which is right here.
So this is our final image showing almost everything in focus at the same time.
And what's really cool about this is I can also go to a 3D display version of this, and it's going to compose this in 3D space.
And then I can take this 3D image and I can look at it in 3D space.
And I can rotate around.
Are you all seeing that?
I can rotate around and I can get the actual topology of that structure.
And this is a 2500 magnification.
So, you know, this is...
Well, I'm not using the cursor very well.
But this is really an extraordinary level of detail and depth that is the 3D depth compositing.
And there's all kinds of things I can do to this, like I can also turn on the scale.
So we know that the height of this is 27 micrometers, as we're showing here.
I can also just have it spin around, and we can see, you know, this width is 89 micrometers, etc.
And we can actually get accurate measurements of everything under the microscope now.
And we're just looking at a silver coin here, you know, so imagine all the other fun stuff that we can do.
So now we go back to the live microscope image, and I'm going to zoom out, and I'm going to change some of the objects here.
So instead of looking at a silver coin, well, let me go all the way back out to 5x, and I'll change the sample.
Let's look at some pine needles from the loblolly pine trees.
All right, there we go.
With this microscope, I don't have to be manually controlling it.
Everything's remote controlled.
So, of course, I can pan around, you know, and I can kind of go wherever I want on this.
But the stage does only have a certain amount of movement.
All right, so suppose I want to get more detail about, I don't know, this connection of the needles here, like right here in the center.
Let's look in.
We can look at this connective structure here, and as always, we can autofocus as well.
So, here we go.
So, look at that.
Did you know that there are white polka dots on the structure of the pine needles?
Now, remember, these pine needles are very rich in shikimic acid, so this is a really potent anti-pandemic, you know, anti-plague type of natural medicine.
Well, suppose we want to zoom in more.
Oh, and these are rich in vitamin C as well.
Suppose we want to zoom in more right here on these white polka dots.
Let's crank it up to, let's say, 1000x.
We now have the ability to do that very easily.
It just takes a few seconds to swap out the lens.
And let me roll up here to the polka dots.
And I can do a little bit of a manual focus here.
So now we're actually seeing the cell structure.
Of the pine needle, the needle itself there, you see those structures?
And then...
Wow, there's actually a vibration that's getting picked up.
That's interesting.
And then if I raise the lens just a little bit, then we get the focus of the polka dots.
You see that?
So let me back off of that to a 500 times magnification.
I think we'll have better results there.
There we go.
So the other thing that I can do is I can use side lighting.
So I can do interesting light shifts here to give us different types of contrast.
So here's one.
Here's another type of light shift.
And then there's the original full lighting from above.
Alright, so we haven't even gone in all the way.
I'm going to actually take one pine needle off of this.
And we'll go back out to 5x so I can show you one pine needle.
Alright, so there we go.
There's a pine needle, just one.
And we have the ability to get in pretty close on this, so let's go ahead and move in.
I didn't have that quite centered, so...
We'll autofocus and bring it in.
And there we go.
So, again, this has a lot of depth to it.
And look at the structure.
So we can pick the spot that we like.
I'm going to say, I really like this kind of double line of white dots here.
So I'm going to zoom in on that.
Let's go to 1000x.
Alright, there we are.
So now, look at what you're seeing.
You're seeing these white dots, which are like...
Little crystals.
You see that?
How cool is that?
They actually look like little salt grains.
They have a crystalline structure.
And this is actually moving a little bit as it heats up from the light.
But you see the detail that I can get.
I can also use this depth function.
Watch this.
I'll get a depth up picture of the whole thing in focus.
And there it is, composited.
So that kind of clarity, what you're seeing right now, We've never been able to get that before.
So that's all the different layers in focus at the same time, even though they are at different Z heights.
So that's what's, you know, with a microscope, that kind of thing is actually really difficult to achieve.
Now, we're not even at the limit of the magnification yet.
Where did I go?
Okay.
We are only at 1000x, so suppose I want to zoom in on one of these white crystals, and I really want to know...
Let's check out this one right here.
What is this one?
Let's go ahead and zoom in to about 1000x on that crystal structure right there.
You see that one?
You see the kind of detail that we're getting?
Isn't nature amazing?
And if we wish, of course, we can go in.
Oh, we're at 2500x, excuse me.
So that's 2500x, that's the limit of our magnification.
But now we can slowly track and we can move around and we can examine all of this at 2500X, which we could not do before.
And now to zoom all the way out.
Oh, and let me show you some of the different light features here.
We can actually get different kinds of contrasts, different palettes, and of course we can do the 3D topography as well.
Let me actually show you the 3D topography at, let's say, 100X.
I can show you how amazing this actually is.
So let's go all the way down to the base.
So you see the base beneath it right there.
That's just like a gray pad that I chose for this.
And then we're going to actually image this all the way through the top of the structure.
And then I'm going to give you a 3D display.
And we'll be able to show you the structure and the measurements.
Of this entire structure.
So remember, we're only seeing the top of it, but now you get a sense of the height.
And we can label that, of course, right here.
So now we know, here we are at, what is that height?
Is that 400?
Yeah, 400 micrometers right there.
So we can actually then measure the distances between the dots, or we can measure anything we want.
Now, it can't see underneath the surface, right?
So that's why you're not seeing, if you look underneath it, you know, the microscope doesn't have x-ray vision.
So it's only interpolating based on what it sees on the surface.
But it does know the depth.
It knows the topography of the image.
So that's going to be incredibly useful.
Now, let me change the sample yet again, because what we're going to do next is we're going to go to some salt grains.
And then...
A couple rocks.
Alright, so here's a really interesting rock, and we're just looking at it at 5x here.
And, you know, it's got some interesting structures, but let's go in and let's take a closer look and see where we are.
So there we go.
And let's suppose that...
I find a really interesting feature here that I really want to look at a lot more, like maybe this clump right here.
Alright, so we'll go into, let's say, 500x.
Okay, now we're at 500x, and we can start to see very small, fine features of this.
And what's interesting is, you know, we can use our mass spec instruments, we can do an elemental analysis of this via mass spec, but this visual analysis can be quite useful all by itself.
Let's look at it at 1000x.
Alright, here's 1000x.
Look at that.
Look, this is what looks like a black splotch.
Let me actually, let me jump to...
1,500.
There's 1,500.
And then there's 2,000.
Okay?
Look at that.
Those are very small mineral deposits that have, you know, very interesting...
I mean, I don't know what they are.
We could take a guess.
But you can look at them through several different lighting filters and polarization filters, and you can get a good idea of...
What it resembles here.
So that's pretty cool.
So now, let me take this rock out of there.
There we go.
We're going to zoom back out again.
And we're going to look at some salt grains.
Alright, so here's our sample of Himalayan pink salt.
And of course, we want to start zooming in and taking a closer look.
Turn down the lights.
We're going to autofocus.
Alright, here we are.
So, that's a pretty interesting structure, you know, collection of structures right there.
Now, what would happen if we wanted to see the texture of this?
Actually, let me zoom in just a little bit more.
Let's go to 50x, or I think that's 50. Here we go, 50. And we'll focus that in at 50, and now what we'll do is we will get the topology of this at 50x.
Alright, oops, where's the mouse?
Here we go.
And now we'll go with our 3D display.
So now, here we go.
We can actually start to see the depth of the salt crystals, and of course we can add scale to it.
And here we go.
So we're seeing...
What is that?
About 800 microns of total depth there, but not all the crystals are that tall.
But you can get a pretty good sense of what these crystals look like here.
And, of course, lots of different interesting colors.
So let's go out and let's find something that we really like here.
Oops.
Let's find...
An interesting feature that we want to really look at more closely.
So what's cool again is we can track across this without manually having to adjust anything.
So let's see.
What is interesting in this?
I think some of these red crystal colors are kind of interesting, like that one right there.
Let's zoom in on this little nugget.
Now the nice thing about Himalayan salt, of course, is that it's got trace minerals which have different colors.
Wow, this is really interesting.
So let me center that one.
Now you notice it's really hard to get all of it in focus at the same time.
But again, using that depth up structure or that feature that I talked about, we can actually image the whole thing.
There we go.
Now it's going to composite there.
So we have this full depth of field in focus, and we can really get a sense of what's behind it and what we have in the foreground, so to speak.
And then, of course, we can go to our 3D display and we can start to look at Superman's ice caves, the Cave of Solace or whatever that was called.
Now you really start to get a sense of the topology of this.
Very cool stuff, right?
Imagine...
What we're going to be able to do with this with all kinds of different samples.
And again, we're not even...
I mean, this is only 200x, so we can go in a lot more.
Like, we can go 1,000x on this sample.
And we can...
Here we go.
We can begin to really see some incredible details here.
So this is pink Himalayan salt.
Now, if you want me to image the whole thing at once, Give me a second.
Here we go.
It's now working on the depth of field.
And then it's going to composite.
So there we go.
That still image right there is multiple z-axis frames that are composited together to give us full depth of field.
Very cool.
So now we're looking at a $10 trillion banknote.
For the Federal Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe.
Okay, can you show the straight camera on that one?
All right.
So, here we go.
$10 trillion.
You didn't know I was a multi-trillionaire.
Yeah.
I promised to pay the bearer on demand, it even says up here.
Well, how could that not be true?
It's a promise from the government.
Okay.
But they have security features here.
And let's say we want to look at these security features, and you'll notice that there are these weird kind of deposits of some kind of metal.
So let's zoom in and take a look at that.
What is that?
Well, here we go.
Now we're getting a very clear look at it.
You can see these letters, ZRB Zimbabwe, maybe Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, RBZ.
And then we have these security deposits of these minerals here.
And, you know, clearly that's an anti-counterfeiting measure.
So let's...
Let's take a closer look at some of those, actually.
I think we should get 1,000 times magnification on those.
And then let's get autofocus on that.
Oh, here we go.
What's going on here?
Wow.
Well, that thing's jumping around a little bit because of the heat from the light.
I think the $10 trillion is going through a phase change.
Look at those crystals, man.
That's crazy.
They're all jumping around.
No, that's just the bill moving because of the heat from the light.
Let me clamp down on that with the silver coin.
Hold on.
Oh, much better.
Yeah, so see, precious metals actually do stabilize currency, it turns out.
I just put a piece of silver beside it, and it worked.
It's more stable now.
So here's a good look, and you can see these are like crystalline structures.
And if you want to get some different light views of them, we have the ability to do that.
Look at that.
It looks like modern art.
From Zimbabwe.
So using this, you know, we could try to figure out what this is.
We could scrape some off.
We could do elemental analysis.
But I just want to show you the detail of all of this.
We're going to zoom in just a little bit more on this.
We'll go to 1000x.
Here we go.
Wow, they are still jumping around.
We're going to see if we can get a depth image of this, although...
It might be tricky because they're jumping around so much, but we'll see.
Here we go.
There.
There's a depth composition, and then we can attempt a 3D display.
And it looks like we can see that those fragments are very flat.
They're not spiking out very much.
And we can also get, of course, the size of them.
Each of those fragments might be only, what would that be?
I don't know.
A few tens of microns in width each.
So these are just some of the things that we can do with this.
And as you might have guessed, we're going to, of course, be able to apply this microscope technology to many other things, including food safety and food contaminants.
And, you know, topics that are of interest to public health.
So if you have interesting samples that you want us to look at, even like, you could send us $10 trillion of failed currencies.
That would be lots of fun to look at.
We're happy to do that.
Oh, there's a silver coin.
We're happy to look at that.
Or other samples that you might find really fun and interesting.
We are going to be looking at a lot of things using this new microscope technology.
And I want to thank you for your support.
We couldn't do this without you.
And of course, this is just part of the extension of our science-based effort to ensure really clean food.
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So we're using this not just for public education, but also for food safety.
So thank you for your support.
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And what we do on the profits that we do earn from your purchases, we invest in technology like this, like this microscope, which is rather expensive, as you might guess.
But in order to give back to you in terms of public education and food safety and awareness and also appreciation of nature.
I'm going to be bringing a lot of samples from nature in here, different kinds of seeds, different kinds of flowers and pollen and so on.
And maybe some, you know, insects or whatever.
And we're going to look at things.
I know I have some lichen that I want to look at under the microscope.
And we'll show you that, of course, and just kind of share with you some of the beauty of nature.
And then we'll also use it for other projects as well.
So thank you for your support and thank you for watching today.
I'm Mike Adams of brighttown.com and naturalnews.com and we have a lot.
Ahead here using this incredible microscope technology.
Take care.
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