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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)

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

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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.

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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.

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One time, I was on a date and I was telling a story about a bossy graduate student. I said "And he didn't even have his PhD!" which didn't impress my date, who didn't even have her PhD.

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I went on a rant about how dumb project managers are shortly before finding out my date was a project manager lol. It happens

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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.

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

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