669
Relationships (mander.xyz)
all 21 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] RacoonVegetable@reddthat.com 58 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Me OMW (on my way) to cut open the cancer treatment machine and put a pellet of cobalt 60 in my mouth:

(The professor did not specify the kind of lab and the kind of equipment)

[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 23 points 9 months ago

You like eating radioactive rocks, don't you?

[-] RacoonVegetable@reddthat.com 38 points 9 months ago
[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 26 points 9 months ago

"Crystal healing is fake" mfs when they hold 125 grams of polonium

[-] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 20 points 9 months ago

Crystal healing is fake.

Crystal killing on the other hand...

I mean, you don't even need radioactive elements to do it. Just one pointy enough.

Any crystal is lethal if you throw it hard enough.

[-] CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago
[-] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 19 points 9 months ago
[-] BreadOven@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago
[-] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 15 points 9 months ago

With my third arm.

I don't feel so good...

[-] BreadOven@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Hahah. I was surprised with the lack of grainy-ness. Maybe you should get that checked out.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 52 points 9 months ago

In an undergrad electronics lab class, the TA suggested I put the function generator leads on my tongue, and play with the parameters. Obviously I know what an applied DC voltage "tastes" like, but he suggested AC, sweeping the frequency. Sure enough, above a certain frequency (want to say 10s to 100s of Hz?), I couldn't feel it at all.

Fun stuff.

[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 39 points 9 months ago

I know enough about academia, electrical safety, people and hygiene to find this plausible, reckless, funny and revolting respectively, but not enough about any to know which should win.

[-] BakerBagel@midwest.social 16 points 9 months ago

I chose the dirty pipettes from the organic chemistry lab!

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 21 points 9 months ago
[-] BakerBagel@midwest.social 15 points 9 months ago

Every year you get warned "dont pipette by mouth" because you will sometimes find some 120 year old lab guide that says "pipette by mouth 13ml of 3M NaOh". Those og chemists went hard.

[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 9 months ago

Maybe not the ethidium bromide equipment though.

[-] BreadOven@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Only for special occasions and when company is over. Bust out the good glassware (just not literally).

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

Yo prof! Do I get to pick the equipment?

this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2024
669 points (100.0% liked)

Science Memes

14099 readers
2265 users here now

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.



Rules

  1. Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
  2. Keep it rooted (on topic).
  3. No spam.
  4. Infographics welcome, get schooled.

This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.



Research Committee

Other Mander Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Practical and Applied Sciences

Memes

Miscellaneous

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS