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Occasionally, while wasting lots and lots of time on the internet I inadvertently learn something. Today I learned that microchip engineers have been doodling on microchips since the 70's. Dilbert Snoopy, and even the USS Enterprise are all etched microscopically on computer chips, photoresistors and pretty much all things silicon. The Egyptian God Annubis Guards the mask alignments on a MIPS R12000 microprocessor and Thor is artfully reproduced on a Hewlett-Packard graphics support chip. If aliens ever get around to reverse engineering the mars rovers they will find pictures of Marvin the Martian etched on the image sensors.

The whole gallery is here.