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HubertManne, in help
@HubertManne@kbin.social avatar

PhD stipends have never allowed for house buying in my time period at least. All the same people compete for it.

somethingp,

Yeah but there used to be hope for affording a house after you finished and got into a tenure track position. But now there are barely any tenure track positions and even those don’t always pay enough for a house

Maoo, in mentally unbalanced behaviour
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There is no way those tubes are balanced step away from the centrifuge

emergencyfood,

They are, actually. Assuming opposite pairs / triples have the same amount of liquid.

plenipotentprotogod, in BIG GEOLOGY
don,

Are there handguns small enough to fit inside a Petri dish? Or do you just aim the handgun at the Petri dish? Does the handgun need to be loaded? If it must be loaded, will blanks suffice? Does a larger caliber reduce the time needed to aim the handgun at the Petri dish? Is there a specific distance to the dish from which one must aim the handgun? Are rifles, shotguns, and machine guns specifically excluded? Will a sword work? It’s generally made of the same kind of material as a handgun. Is it necessary to stand on a chair while wearing a lab coat while aiming the handgun? Can two hands be used to aim the handgun? Does engaging the handgun’s safety have any effect on the contents of the Petri dish?

XKCD’s not being very helpful.

Icalasari,

Blank probably would work. Those can still kill at point blank

misterundercoat,

If we just go around shooting cancer cells, we’ll end up with bullet-resistant super-cancers.

Iron_Lynx,

If we can harvest those to make ballistic vests, then I see opportunities.

rockerface,

So, like Venom?

1024_Kibibytes,

I don’t know of any handguns small enough to fit into a petri dish. The handgun must be loaded and fired at the petri dish. A large caliber will be easier to aim since it would decrease the need for accuracy. Close range is a better distance. Shotguns and machine guns would do an even better job, rifles are fine. A sword decreases the likelihood of destroying a virus because of its low energy. Standing on a chair while wearing a lab coat makes you look cooler. Two hands can be used to aim the gun if it helps you. The handgun will not fire with the safety on, thus decreasing the probability of destroying the virus.

skillissuer, in mentally unbalanced behaviour
@skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

i think that centrifuge might be actually balanced

skillissuer,
@skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de avatar
FreshLight, (edited ) in mentally unbalanced behaviour

I disagree. A real mad scientist is still a human and not a centrifuge

nailbar,

He turned himself into a centrifuge in a mad science experiment!

don, in BIG GEOLOGY

Technically a close-range gamma ray burst can kill coronavirus, but there’s a good reason no one is using it for that purpose: it’s a goddamned close-range gamma ray burst.

Coasting0942,

I am confused? Suffer not the non-human to live

PunnyName,

Oh, look at Big Astronomy trying to tell me how I should practice Extinction Level Events.

Fuck you B.A., I’ll go extinct however I wanna!

nxdefiant,

You can have a little extinction, as a treat.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot,

You want Hulks? 'Cause that’s how you get Hulks.

gibmiser, in BIG GEOLOGY

They don’t want you to know it works, but I’ve been microdosing lava for years now. Now everything tastes the same and I can fly.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA,
@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world avatar

How are your shits?

gibmiser,

Well… turns out tiny shards of volcanic rock are sharp enough to make surgical scalpels. So, colorful.

fossilesque,
@fossilesque@mander.xyz avatar

Well, I’m convinced.

SatanicNotMessianic, in mentally unbalanced behaviour

Having dealt with this kind of thing before, it gives a new and more literal definition to the phrase “bloody idiot.”

blandfordforever,

That’s a properly balanced centrifuge. Perhaps we should be calling you the silly names.

Malgas, in mentally unbalanced behaviour

Why did you build a death ray?

To take over the world.

No, I mean, what mad hypothesis are you testing? Are you just making mad observations?

Look, I’m just trying to take over the world. That’s all.

You’re at least going to leave some of the world as a mad control group, right?

Sad fact: most “mad scientists” are actually mad engineers.

(Borrowed from a Cowbirds in Love strip which at the time of this writing is inaccessible.)

AlgeriaWorblebot,

I miss Cowbirds in Love.

BrundleFly2077,
mkhopper, in BIG GEOLOGY
@mkhopper@lemmy.world avatar

You can’t drink lava from plastic glasses.

Kase,

You can’t stop me from trying

Imgonnatrythis,

Plastic is bad for the environment and our bodies anyway.

NobodyElse, in mentally unbalanced behaviour

I’ve heard an unbalanced ultracentrifuge explode and have seen the aftermath. Now that’s mad science!

Contramuffin,

Don’t worry, that’s actually perfectly balanced. That’s the mad part

Tar_alcaran,

Could still be different amounts in there though

Nobody, in BIG GEOLOGY

My sister’s baby’s daddy’s cousin’s roommate drank lava, and it cured his cancer. Then, he quit taking drugs. Why does Big Geology support cancer and drug addiction?

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA,
@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world avatar

Every time you tell this story you leave out the fact his testicle (yeah he only got one) swole up to the size of a basketball and I think that’s pretty important

Ranvier, (edited ) in BIG GEOLOGY

Appoint this internet commenter as surgeon general of Florida! We must get the truth out about medicinal lava!

frezik,

That commenter already is the surgeon general of Florida.

sooper_dooper_roofer, (edited ) in BIG GEOLOGY

technically lava can kill coronavirus

is this really a forbes article? actually it’s probably more truthful than usual

1024_Kibibytes,

It is really a Forbes article:

forbes.com/…/can-lava-kill-the-coronavirus-an-inv…

Apparently it came about after Trump suggested drinking bleach.

sooper_dooper_roofer,

the floor is lava, and coronavirus can’t touch it

metaStatic, in BIG GEOLOGY

They've played us for absolute fools

Wogi,

This is such bullshit. You can’t drink lava.

It’s really more like a soft taffy. You eat it. I eat lava all the time and I’m FINE. eat the lava kids

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