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?
My worst memory of Uni is a Biology lab. It was a Friday afternoon, and I had to dissect a cat that had been taken out of the freezer on Monday. On the outside it was all stinky but inside it was frozen. I needed a massive pair of scissors to cut the skin open, and then had to hold its guts under warm water for about 10 minutes to defrost them a little. The cat muscles looked like cooked chicken.
On my left was an echidna that had been dissected on Monday morning, and had everything pulled open so that you could see as much as possible. It had been sitting on the bench all week.
On my right was a kangaroo. Aside from dissecting it, the person who was assigned to it had to peel all the skin, muscle, and other soft tissue off so that its skull could be preserved.
The smell was the worst I've ever experienced. I said "Fuck it" and left about halfway through, and even now just thinking of it makes me want to throw up.
In Physics, on the other hand, I got to play with radioactive stuff, measure the intensity of cosmic radiation, and create plasmas.
Man if I wasn't a film major I'd totally be some type of science major. AP Biology may have beaten my interest in that area away, but AP Physics was great, and my Geology class in college was fantastic.
I'm sad I haven't taken a science class in years.
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
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.
How did the fish die?
All it takes is one fish to die for whatever reason
That dead fish starts to decay and creates an ammonia spike, increased ammonia levels cause the weaker fish to die and then a domino effect occurs
I was an Astrophysics major until I realized that A) I hate math, and there's virtually no job prospects in that field. I became an English major for a while, then I just shut up and went back to studying networks and network security. I kinda wish I had better luck with biology, but all throughout my life my biology courses taught me that my fascination with marine life is better left to admiring what I see in marine documentaries, and becoming ever more depressed with ocean acidification.
The only thing I remember from my college biology lab was the day the teacher brought in a box in which was suspended a pair of lungs. One belonged to a smoker, one a non-smoker.
It was nifty to look at, and the teacher pumped in some air to make them "breathe" and everything.
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BroloBroseidonLord of the BroceanRegistered Userregular
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let's just recycle that
Perhaps it will serve a useful purpose in a second incarnation.
pfft
clearly the coolest discipline is physics, which lets me use a cryostat to investigate quantum dots at 3.4 Kelvin
also nothing gets all sticky
Whaaaaaaaat
you and your phallotry just stay away from my dilz
heeeey
i'm not so much against dicks as pro-boobs
alright this is an acceptable platform
Honestly, the most acceptable platform
cryostat, eh.
yessir
but also you missed the terrible joke
How did the fish die?
this is the one we use
yes, it kind of looks like a coffee machine
you ever seen reanimator?
There is no part of biology that physics cannot utterly annihilate with the application of a simple law or two.
This sentence has no meaning.
there's a lot of cool stuff we don't know about life yet
well for one we know that it ahh, uh, ehhheh, finds a way
as much as I agree with you, this sounds like something a super-villain would say
My worst memory of Uni is a Biology lab. It was a Friday afternoon, and I had to dissect a cat that had been taken out of the freezer on Monday. On the outside it was all stinky but inside it was frozen. I needed a massive pair of scissors to cut the skin open, and then had to hold its guts under warm water for about 10 minutes to defrost them a little. The cat muscles looked like cooked chicken.
On my left was an echidna that had been dissected on Monday morning, and had everything pulled open so that you could see as much as possible. It had been sitting on the bench all week.
On my right was a kangaroo. Aside from dissecting it, the person who was assigned to it had to peel all the skin, muscle, and other soft tissue off so that its skull could be preserved.
The smell was the worst I've ever experienced. I said "Fuck it" and left about halfway through, and even now just thinking of it makes me want to throw up.
In Physics, on the other hand, I got to play with radioactive stuff, measure the intensity of cosmic radiation, and create plasmas.
I'm so sorry. That sounds awful.
nooo
secret
I once killed a mantis so I could bring it in to science class and I will never stop being sorry I did it
now you will never get into bug heaven
I'm sad I haven't taken a science class in years.
It means KABOOM ha ha!
Yes?
Satans..... hints.....
All it takes is one fish to die for whatever reason
That dead fish starts to decay and creates an ammonia spike, increased ammonia levels cause the weaker fish to die and then a domino effect occurs
what, you can't take a compliment?
some years later a mantis actually attacked me
I like to think he was going for a just revenge
although he wasn't very effective
Consider yourself, and the 2 mile radius around your current location lucky that I did.
his name
was Kai Leng
go join the political scientists and scientologists you weaksaucientists
go ahead tough guy
tell me that biology is just memorization and that it's not one of the hard sciences
go ahead and tell me that
It was nifty to look at, and the teacher pumped in some air to make them "breathe" and everything.
not even real memortization you mighht as well nbe takng FRENCH