• Thrashy@lemmy.world
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      I do lab planning for a living and sometimes I like to play “How Many Houses Could This Instrument Buy?” with my coworkers. Usually it’s something along the lines of 0.1 to 1 houses, but every once in a while we do a process development lab for some biotech firm, and they want to spring for one of those Satorious automated bioreactors. Those things cost “a whole block’s worth of nice houses in a mid-major metro” money.

  • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]@hexbear.net
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    I love labs were they are like “we use three tools. A toothpick you can get at any restaurant, a device invented in the middle ages that hasn’t changed and is still made by like 30 people tops, and the million dollar magic machine that we don’t really understand”

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      1 year ago

      Does win XP and x-ray/uv/florescence count? That’s already on there.

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    I’ve done time in biotech and in applied physics, and damn the gear over in the APh labs is cool as fuck.

    I want an optics table for mini gaming.

    I want a device that cools itself to -76F, evacuates itself to intergalactic pressures, then heats up a coil hot enough to vaporize gold for…

    Well, I’ll find a use for it anyway.

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      I want an optics table for mini gaming.

      A highschool lens-and-prism set is like 30-40 bucks on aliexpress, including a triple laserpointer. Not quite an optics table, but I’m assuming you don’t do your tabletop gaming with orange goggles and/or actual half-molten minis?

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        I plan on counting fringes to evaluate distances for my 40K sessions.

        And yes, we use a welding laser to stimulate radiation damage.