Each one of these costs more than the building itself
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.
So like $10 million dollars?
Nowadays this exercise does more to show how absurd housing prices are than it shows about instrument prices.
Except thermocyclers, literally available on aliexpress these days
You can get almost every piece of lab equipment on Ali. Wether or not you'll actually get one, or if it does what you want is another matter though.
Look, if we don’t make the boxes beige, people will want to play with them, and that could lead to fun and/or death.
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"
Ah, but this one goes BEEP.
The whole skit is brilliant, really ahead of its time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQPIdZvoV4g
Ugh, I wish. Almost none of them have any cool sound effects.
Don't forget beige box that shakes the thing.
Have you thought about maybe adding windows and RGB lighting to them?
Does win XP and x-ray/uv/florescence count? That's already on there.
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.
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?
I plan on counting fringes to evaluate distances for my 40K sessions.
And yes, we use a welding laser to stimulate radiation damage.
That's how we in IT treat those. Now please budget to replace them when its software only uses an EOL operating system. We don't like windows xp running something 'critical' to the business.
If they are networked I can definitely agree.
If not, the only functional difference you get for upgrading is exchanging the floppy drive for a usb port.
It's really hard to convince people to replace a 6+ digit piece of machinery all because its control system has an EOL OS. Especially considering upgrading it to the newest model most likely means upgrading the OS from Windows 95 to Windows XP (embedded).
Anyone know what all of these are?
I'm guessing PCR, ???, laminar air flow / fume hood and spectrometer.
Humidifier, Colecovision, Toaster Oven, and Stapler
The experience of walking through the wafer fab at my work
Your mom's beige box is where the magic happens!
Pretty much
Oh my god they made Industrialcraft real!
White, Blue and Black Machine soon for people that do Coagulation
Getting real close to turning science in rituals.
When I first started in the gc area of my previous lab I was in charge of training the interns in the other areas of the lab, but I'd give an impromptu tour of the gc/gcms/gcmsms area of the lab, I'd explain the gc as "the magical science gnomes work in this box, we bring a technician in here once a year to make sure they're fed and given fresh water", and had no idea how to explain an ms let alone an msms/triplequadrapole. By the end I could hand wave away the gc (along with do the yearly maintenance), I do a pretty good job at explaining the ms without relying too much on the term "magic" (but it totally is) and the msms? That shit is so close to magical that I think it always will be explained with some use of "magic". I understand the theory behind it, but how the hell does it do what it does??
