Scrounging for Fun and Profit 145
Guinnessy writes: "According to Toni Feder on Physics Today, scrounging used equipment is worthwhile if you can avoid the pitfalls of wasting time and compromising scientific goals. Feder interviews experimenters who have dug up everything from dewars to nuclear reactors."
Inheritance... (Score:3, Funny)
Man, I wish my rich uncle would die and leave me a 2-trillion-watt pulsed-power machine!
Free Dewars? (Score:2, Funny)
Although...you suppose they didn't mean Scotch?
dumpster diving (Score:1, Funny)
(some people just don't appreciate legitimate scientific inquiry!)
Heh.... (Score:4, Funny)
Eric Gearman
who woulda thunk (Score:3, Funny)
research scientists scrounge around for stuff?
It makes perfect sense, i know a few researchers who go out every weekend to scrounge for some Dewars [dewars.com].
Television (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Heh.... (Score:3, Funny)
(Anyone else excited about the new season airing in the US on September 12?)
Re:Go check out your physics dept's unused rooms (Score:3, Funny)
Think what *I* could do with that thing... (Score:3, Funny)
--and nobody's yet proposed taking charge of it for the sole purpose of world domination? What's wrong with these geeks??
The things I would do with a petawatt laser combined with, say, a small collection of orbiting satellites simply boggle the mind....
Re:Warning about scrounging (Score:4, Funny)
Not only did we find a bunch of mystery chemicals with no labels, but we found herring sperm.
Unfortunately it was expired. Oh, the things I could have done with the herring sperm.
That's got to be quite a job, working in the herring sperm factory.
*wakes up in the morning*
"Dammit, If I have to whack off one more herring, I'm going to die. I'll just die."
"oh lord, when will you dry up this river of herring sperm I see before me?"
-J5K