I was gonna say washing line. The fraying of nylon at the left edge give it away I think

The object in question is not any form of cable or line, it has two distinct ends.

Given the difficulty and range of guesses on this object points will be distributed accordingly

Basted! You beat me to it! Been staring at it for ages, and the Mrs guessed it!

 

Thats the "We have a winnah" banana



Current scores:

Bear +15
XEnity +15
Ceathreamhnan: +6
Eagle: +6
Pete +6
Serious +2
Sam: -1
Dogbert -1
Eggtastico -1
Sweenster -1
Knighty: -2
Clocked: -2
White Giant: -2
Adrock: -2
Deviance -2
Mark: -2.5
Bigsoy: -3
Alien8: -4

Interestingly I do the + scores first and Bear was winning by a mile, but after I took away the negative guesses it brought him equal to xenity. Fact is that even at -4 if Alien8 can guess one correctly first hell be up there in the big league, so its still worth guessing, and making lots of guesses, though it might cost you some of your "win" denies others the points boost too.

And on that note, I am currently out of photos/objects, and so we will have a commercial break. In the meantime can I get some feedback on whether anything in this little game should be changed, and if so, how?

Nope, thatd require a different kind of microscope, a compound high-power scope to be exact, with magnifications in the order of 100-2000, as opposed to a stereo zoom microscope which does between 10-40 normally. Theyre for different applications

The magnification is so puny most people here have difficulty recognising the objects in question

My scope is meant for doing practical things under, dissections, inspections, electronics etc. Its got 2 seperate objectives which gives you a 3D view through the eyepieces, rather than a flat view coming from 1 eyepiece. At anything more than x50 magnification youd start to struggle in terms of using tweezers and scalpels for moving things around without mechanical assistance. The 100+ magnification compound scopes tend to be pretty much for looking at things at a cellular level on a slide, for identification work only. Theres not much use for me when trying to ID an Ant or something to be able to see only the tip of its mandible...