Let's go back to my place and I can put my bar magnet into your solenoid [For Science!]
ceresWhen the last moon is cast over the last star of morningAnd the future has past without even a last desperate warningRegistered User, Moderatormod
Are you a science major or scientist-by-trade (mad or otherwise)? I know there are a number floating around.
Today was my day to go down to the fish room maintained by my lab advisor and feed them. I get down there and discover that apparently overnight there was some sort of fishpocalypse, and three tanks of fish are dead or dying.
I hate going down there to find that sort of thing, and in my two and a half years there it's not even the first time it's happened.
Tell me about your day, or a typical day for you. What sort of joys and pitfalls do you face daily doing what you do?
GIVE TO ME YOUR SCIENCE-RELATED ANECDOTES.
And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
ugh i hate that sort of thing. I once accidentally painted over a bees eyes while trying to mark it (it wouldn't stop fidgeting) and i felt so awful.
Today I spent an hour outside filming the sky with some specially designed cameras, which was rather pleasant, unlike last month when it was bloody freezing and I caught a cold because I hadn't worn enough clothes. But generally I like it when I get to do outdoor work rather than sitting in an office bludgeoning my head on intractable programming problems. Hopefully in the next couple of weeks I'll manage one or two trips traipsing around in ponds looking for dragonflies.
i was soldering stuff in my office all november/december and it was too cold to open a window so i probably half poisoned myself. Especially since I was using my shitty iron (I have two) to mold and cut plastic.
... if OH&S ever bothered checking out my floor they'd probably have a heart attack.
ceresWhen the last moon is cast over the last star of morningAnd the future has past without even a last desperate warningRegistered User, Moderatormod
ugh i hate that sort of thing. I once accidentally painted over a bees eyes while trying to mark it (it wouldn't stop fidgeting) and i felt so awful.
Today I spent an hour outside filming the sky with some specially designed cameras, which was rather pleasant, unlike last month when it was bloody freezing and I caught a cold because I hadn't worn enough clothes. But generally I like it when I get to do outdoor work rather than sitting in an office bludgeoning my head on intractable programming problems. Hopefully in the next couple of weeks I'll manage one or two trips traipsing around in ponds looking for dragonflies.
There is a retired professor who shares my prof's lab, and he works with Drosophela and Oncopeltus ova and raises both. I have seen him and his students dissect soooo many of both species, and I can always tell when there's a new undergrad floating around because I have to keep my coffee cup covered. Fruit flies love coffee.
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ceresWhen the last moon is cast over the last star of morningAnd the future has past without even a last desperate warningRegistered User, Moderatormod
Raise your hand if you're probably getting cancer eventually from exposures in your lab (everyone should be raising their hands)
Oh my goodness am I ever. On top of all the DAPI, ethidium bromide, and and trizole I've handled, I have spend most of my undergraduate degree to date elbow-deep in colon cancer.
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BugBoyboy.EXE has stopped functioning.only bugs remainRegistered Userregular
diptera is not the most pleasant order
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ceresWhen the last moon is cast over the last star of morningAnd the future has past without even a last desperate warningRegistered User, Moderatormod
Oh yeah, and the UV. Can't forget the UV.
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ceresWhen the last moon is cast over the last star of morningAnd the future has past without even a last desperate warningRegistered User, Moderatormod
Look, it's not all cancer and poison
well, I guess these days most of it is
But hey, there's always the ecology guys
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PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
can science explain time-traveling posts?
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ceresWhen the last moon is cast over the last star of morningAnd the future has past without even a last desperate warningRegistered User, Moderatormod
I'm taking physics now and I have to say it really is pretty cool.. especially circuit-building.
Too bad I'd never make it as a physicist; I will never get the right-hand rule right. Or math. Mostly that second thing.
And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
Ubikoh pete, that's later. maybe we'll be dead by thenRegistered Userregular
man eff the laws of science, it's all about the science of law
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ceresWhen the last moon is cast over the last star of morningAnd the future has past without even a last desperate warningRegistered User, Moderatormod
As far as I can tell the forums are more of an art than a science.
And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
When i have my biologist hat on I'm just doing ethology, which is a very un-cancerous discipline. Well except for when i'm in australia in summer I guess.
the fumes i expose myself to are purely voluntary, mostly come from dicking around with my hobbies rather than real work, and are almost certainly against university regulations.
ceresWhen the last moon is cast over the last star of morningAnd the future has past without even a last desperate warningRegistered User, Moderatormod
When i have my biologist hat on I'm just doing ethology, which is a very un-cancerous discipline. Well except for when i'm in australia in summer I guess.
the fumes i expose myself to are purely voluntary, mostly come from dicking around with my hobbies rather than real work, and are almost certainly against university regulations.
That's interesting because in my studies I've learned that being in or associated with Australia causes cancer.
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BeastehTHAT WOULD NOTKILL DRACULARegistered Userregular
PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
my junk is my penis btw
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ceresWhen the last moon is cast over the last star of morningAnd the future has past without even a last desperate warningRegistered User, Moderatormod
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Never had to clean up a mousey corpse that I didn't make myself though so there's that
Today I spent an hour outside filming the sky with some specially designed cameras, which was rather pleasant, unlike last month when it was bloody freezing and I caught a cold because I hadn't worn enough clothes. But generally I like it when I get to do outdoor work rather than sitting in an office bludgeoning my head on intractable programming problems. Hopefully in the next couple of weeks I'll manage one or two trips traipsing around in ponds looking for dragonflies.
oh oh today a bug fell in my blouse and i only cried a little!!
I like those
too bad i'm not a neuroscientist
also I probably inhaled way too much soldering smoke
... if OH&S ever bothered checking out my floor they'd probably have a heart attack.
Excitement usually means something is on fire.
I asked him what was on his shirt. He told me "It's a dinosaur. A BRONTOSAURUS!"
I asked him what he was doing. He told me "He's stepping on buildings and killing all the people!"
I asked him why he was doing that, he must be a mean dinosaur.
He said "No, Unkie D, it's just a shirt, there were no cities when dinosaurs were alive."
I said "ha ha yeah I guess you're right. You sure know a lot about dinosaurs!"
He said "YEAH! I'm a Scientist!"
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Mostly because they are so impressed when I use dry ice to turn water from deep purple to orange.
Science
There is a retired professor who shares my prof's lab, and he works with Drosophela and Oncopeltus ova and raises both. I have seen him and his students dissect soooo many of both species, and I can always tell when there's a new undergrad floating around because I have to keep my coffee cup covered. Fruit flies love coffee.
Oh my goodness am I ever. On top of all the DAPI, ethidium bromide, and and trizole I've handled, I have spend most of my undergraduate degree to date elbow-deep in colon cancer.
Personally, I avoid them.
well, I guess these days most of it is
But hey, there's always the ecology guys
man everyone's probably getting cancer eventually anyway.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
you're missing out on the coolest discipline
preferably a lady
preferably sexy science
talkin about astronomy?
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Too bad I'd never make it as a physicist; I will never get the right-hand rule right. Or math. Mostly that second thing.
neutrinos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fI8834iCgo
When i have my biologist hat on I'm just doing ethology, which is a very un-cancerous discipline. Well except for when i'm in australia in summer I guess.
the fumes i expose myself to are purely voluntary, mostly come from dicking around with my hobbies rather than real work, and are almost certainly against university regulations.
That's interesting because in my studies I've learned that being in or associated with Australia causes cancer.
surprising noone
His top men really probably are top men, though.