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Lazyhound: Mar 1, 2004; A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous—got me?

tak posted:

Phlebotomy lab techs used to mouth pipette blood not that long ago (80s)

I wonder why they stopped in the 80s. :thunk:

# ? Aug 22, 2019 02:28

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# ? May 15, 2024 14:02

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tak posted:

Phlebotomy lab techs used to mouth pipette blood not that long ago (80s)

Oh good, that really happened. I was in the hospital a lot as a kid in the 70s and I clearly remember the vampire nurses, but wasn't completely sure it wasn't just something I dreamed.

# ? Aug 22, 2019 02:37

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# ? Aug 22, 2019 02:40

shovelbum: Oct 21, 2010; Fun Shoe

whats the benefit of mouth pipetting?

# ? Aug 22, 2019 03:33

Jabor: Jul 16, 2010; #1 Loser at SpaceChem

shovelbum posted:

whats the benefit of mouth pipetting?

Convenience.

# ? Aug 22, 2019 03:34

Deteriorata: Feb 6, 2005

shovelbum posted:

whats the benefit of mouth pipetting?

Pipettes existed long before rubber bulbs. For several centuries, sucking up liquids with your mouth was the only way to do it.

Traditions die hard.

# ? Aug 22, 2019 03:42

Beer_Suitcase: May 3, 2005; Verily, the whip is ghost riding.

shovelbum posted:

whats the benefit of mouth pipetting?

Less birthdays?

# ? Aug 22, 2019 03:42

zedprime: Jun 9, 2007; yospos

Most of the time they straight up admit it's the convenience of not needing to attach the bulb or find the tip refills for the autopipette but they'll occasionally trip over themselves to say bulbs are harder to use accurately and the autopipette keeps getting out of calibration.

# ? Aug 22, 2019 04:16

ponzicar: Mar 17, 2008

I believe that the lip and tongue are more sensitive than the rubber, but it's still not worth the risk.

# ? Aug 22, 2019 04:42

Cojawfee: May 31, 2006; I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

I remember watching a video in science class about a guy mouth pipetting some water and he knew it was acidic because he felt his teeth fizzing.

# ? Aug 22, 2019 05:27

PittTheElder: Feb 13, 2012; Yes, it's like a lava lamp.

shovelbum posted:

whats the benefit of mouth pipetting?

Do you want it done right, or do you want it done fast?

# ? Aug 22, 2019 07:40

SelenicMartian: Sep 14, 2013; Sometimes it's not the bomb that's retarded.

Re: whaling, remember this good old unit of measurement.

quote:

The term candlepower was originally defined in the UK, by the Metropolitan Gas Act 1860, as the light produced by a pure spermaceti candle that weighs 1⁄6 pound (76 grams) and burns at a rate of 120 grains per hour (7.8 grams per hour). Spermaceti is a material from the heads of sperm whales, and was once used to make high-quality candles.

# ? Aug 22, 2019 07:40

PurpleXVI: Oct 30, 2011; Spewing insults, pissing off all your neighbors, betraying your allies, backing out of treaties and accords, and generally screwing over the global environment?
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Cojawfee posted:

I remember watching a video in science class about a guy mouth pipetting some water and he knew it was acidic because he felt his teeth fizzing.

Reminds me of my high school phys/chem teacher who, I'll note, had a license to make his own fireworks and gunpowder. One day someone asked him why one of his thumbs was all weird and withered with a perpetually damaged nail. Apparently at one point he had two containers, one of water, one of high-concentration sulphuric acid, and forgot to label them. Not wanting to bother to get the colour-changing paper to test them, he just jammed a thumb in each tub and waited to see which one started hurting first.

It may have been a bullshit story, but knowing the guy I could believe it 100%.

# ? Aug 22, 2019 07:45

Bees on Wheat: Jul 18, 2007; I've never been happy

QUAIL DIVISION; Buglord

Cojawfee posted:

I remember watching a video in science class about a guy mouth pipetting some water and he knew it was acidic because he felt his teeth fizzing.

I vaguely remember watching a video like that, for some reason the scenario took place near a pond and the only thing he had to wash his mouth out was a big heapin' helpin' of pond water, served up in some random styrofoam container.

I've also very nearly put acid in my eye while using an ancient autopipette machine to fill a couple hundred tubes for a college lab course, because the hose kinked and the tip flew out of my hand and I was a dumbass that didn't think to put safety glasses on. Thankfully I didn't become an OSHA story, but watching the stream of acid arching in front of me was certainly a thing.

# ? Aug 22, 2019 07:45

MightyJoe36: Dec 29, 2013; Cat Army

Piggy Smalls posted:

I�m sorry to say that this story somehow reminded me of that Star Trek actor who got squished by his Jeep.

I know this probably makes me a horrible person, but every time I think of that it reminds me of the "How have you not run yourself over with a car!" line from Due Date.

# ? Aug 22, 2019 12:32

Groda: Mar 17, 2005; Hair Elf

MightyJoe36 posted:

I know this probably makes me a horrible person, but every time I think of that it reminds me of the "How have you not run yourself over with a car!" line from Due Date.

Not the "Upper class twit of the year" sketch?

And Oliver has run himself over...

# ? Aug 22, 2019 12:53

duz: Jul 11, 2005; Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost

ponzicar posted:

I believe that the lip and tongue are more sensitive than the rubber, but it's still not worth the risk.

- Overheard at the VD clinic

# ? Aug 22, 2019 13:52

Nth Doctor: Sep 7, 2010; Darkrai used Dream Eater!
It's super effective!

Groda posted:

Not the "Upper class twit of the year" sketch?

And Oliver has run himself over...

Thinking this is a sign of truly good education, taste, and culture.

# ? Aug 22, 2019 16:20

Dark Off: Aug 14, 2015

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/08/22/there-s-no-danger-get-to-work So much osha in that nuclear incident.

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When conducting any work like this [with the missile], the soldiers should have deployed decontamination checkpoints at the testing site � there should have been at least three. The first decontamination point should be at the border between the clean and contaminated zones. Even in the absence of a major accident, individuals leaving the danger zone must pass through this checkpoint with any equipment they touched, and they have to be processed and decontaminated of any radiation. At the next checkpoint, these people have to remove all their clothing (which needs to be destroyed), before they�re cleaned and decontaminated again. After this, they�re checked again for radiation levels. People who come up �clean� are released, but anyone with abnormal readings has to be taken to a military hospital. Before they�re loaded into an ambulance, they need to be washed again and then yet again, when they arrive at the hospital. Before any surgeries, patients should be decontaminated once again at the hospital. Only after all this should doctors treat the patients.

And what happened with the accident at the test site in the Arkhangelsk region? I wasn�t on duty that day, but I know about what took place from my colleagues. Six victims were taken to Vaskovo Airport, not on military helicopters, but on two civilian helicopters operated by air-medical service. These workers weren�t warned that they were carrying radiation-contaminated patients, and they certainly didn�t sign any consent-to-assist documents. Because they weren�t told whom they were transporting, the air-medical responders didn�t even take basic safety measures. They flew into a hotbed of isotope radiation without respirators or protective gear, and took away the victims.

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And the most absurd thing in all this (though I struggle to single out what I think is �the most�) is that they didn�t leave our vehicle (a mobile radiation-chemistry laboratory) at Vaskovo Airport, where they brought the victims. Instead, they sent it to Severodvinsk to measure its radiation levels. At that time, there were reports that sensors there were showing heightened radiation levels. So our car went there, and an additional team drove to the airport with a gamma-ray sensor and nothing else. This was on orders from senior officials (not the managers at our rescue service).

Just so you understand: I�m saying that the rescue workers were in protective gear, but they had absolutely nothing to help the radiation victims. To make matters worse, our vehicle, which had everything needed to decontaminate radioactive people, had just left for Severodvinsk, on orders from management. I�ll note separately that the �Zvezdochka� and �Sevmash� factories in Severodvinsk also have their own equipment that could have been used to measure the radiation levels there.

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On August 8, at 4:35 p.m., three people injured at a military testing site were brought to our hospital. We doctors directly asked if any of the patients had been exposed to radiation. The patients� escorts told us that they�d all been decontaminated. They said, �They�re no danger to you. Get to work.�

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Some time later, when we were already in surgery with the patients, the dosimetrists showed up and started measuring beta-radiation levels. They ran out of the operating room in terror. Doctors caught them in the hallway, and they confessed that the beta radiation was off the scale.

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And another important thing: we risked the lives of the other patients who were in the emergency room at that time. We closed the area only after we realized that we�d admitted three patients who�d been exposed to radiation. The whole time up until this, literally steps from our victims, there were teenagers, pregnant women, and people who needed medical attention, all just walking by.

The next day, on Monday, staff from the Health Ministry arrived. After spending several hours with the patients (about whom the doctors themselves knew only that they�d been exposed to radiation, and not the type of radiation or doses), the physicians started asking the Health Ministry officials: �We�ve likely been irradiated. Who�s responsible for this? Whose decision was it? And how will we be compensated for this?� The acting minister said the doctors would get overtime pay, which is roughly 100 rubles ($1.50) an hour. In other words, the Health Ministry officials didn�t deny that the staff had been irradiated. So these people spent five to six hours with the infected, performed operations on them, and got 500 rubles ($7.60) for it.

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The medics from the military came to our hospital only later. When we started telling them about the victims� exposure, their diagnoses, and invited them into the patients� rooms, the medics said, �No. We have children,� and �I�ve got so many kids and I�m not going in there.� Well that�s just great. Meanwhile, without any warning, the doctors at our hospital spent a bunch of time with these patients, the anesthesiologists each spent six hours with them, and these military medics don�t want to go inside for a single minute.

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At Burnazyan, they found cesium in one of my colleagues. He�s a young man, and his wife is currently pregnant. At the medical center, they asked him where he�s gone on vacation in the past few years. He started listing all the places, and said he�d been to Thailand at some point. When they heard this, they said where there�s Thailand, there�s Japan: �You must have eaten some Fukushima crabs!� The man had been in contact with cesium for several hours, he�d participated in surgeries [with irradiated patients], and he�d stood over the patients without a respirator mask. Then he goes in for an examination, and they tell him: �Oops, well, it�s your own fault. You brought it home from Thailand.�

# ? Aug 22, 2019 20:12

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK: Sep 11, 2001

https://i.imgur.com/NEcY2yc.mp4

# ? Aug 22, 2019 20:32

ATP_Power: Jun 12, 2010; This is what fascinates me most in existence: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in fact, real.

shovelbum posted:

whats the benefit of mouth pipetting?

My old professor swears that it's faster and more accurate than a pipet actuator, but I'll be damned if I ever put that to the test.

# ? Aug 22, 2019 20:52

terrenblade: Oct 29, 2012

https://i.imgur.com/NEcY2yc.mp4

# ? Aug 22, 2019 21:18

Sagebrush: Feb 26, 2012

Imagined posted:

When you look up any crazy element or chemical discovered more than about 50 years ago you'll always see notes about what it tastes like. Apparently combining random poo poo and seeing how it tasted was just how chemists rolled back in the day.

back before real analytical chemistry, and well before technologies like spectrometers, the directly observable characteristics of a compound were the only way to identify it. i read a really old chemistry book once (1850s) that categorized chemicals by everything you could possibly detect with your senses -- basic stuff like color, solubility and crystal shape of course, but also the smell, the taste, the feel when rolled in your fingers, even the sound the crystals made when crushed.

# ? Aug 22, 2019 21:30

Fabulousity: Dec 29, 2008; Number One I order you to take a number two.

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:

https://i.imgur.com/NEcY2yc.mp4

Fun fact: Palm trees can also serve as human flesh zesters if the proper amount of kinetic force and aforementioned flesh are added to the tree trunk.

# ? Aug 22, 2019 22:02

Schadenboner: Aug 15, 2011; by Shine

Fabulousity posted:

Fun fact: Palm trees can also serve as human flesh zesters if the proper amount of kinetic force and aforementioned flesh are added to the tree trunk.

It really looks more like a tenderizer thing is going on here, though?

# ? Aug 22, 2019 22:03

hambeet: Sep 13, 2002

He looked like he was hanged at the end.

# ? Aug 22, 2019 22:18

Xaintrailles: Aug 14, 2015

ponzicar posted:

I believe that the lip and tongue are more sensitive than the rubber, but it's still not worth the risk.

It is pretty hard to pipette through one of these.

# ? Aug 23, 2019 01:01

Watermelon Daiquiri: Jul 10, 2010; I TRIED TO BAIT THE TXPOL THREAD WITH THE WORLD'S WORST POSSIBLE TAKE AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS STUPID AVATAR.

dental dam?

# ? Aug 23, 2019 01:08

Cowcaster: Aug 7, 2002

lisa needs braces!

# ? Aug 23, 2019 01:12

Jet Jaguar: Feb 12, 2006; Don't touch my bags if you please, Mr Customs Man.

A Demon Core simulator makes for a great conversation piece!

https://twitter.com/DJSnM/status/1164701916728680448

# ? Aug 23, 2019 02:24

Vincent Van Goatse: Nov 8, 2006; Enjoy every sandwich.; Smellrose

Dark Off posted:

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2019/08/22/there-s-no-danger-get-to-work So much osha in that nuclear incident.

Russia's going all-out in their Chernobyl remake, aren't they.

# ? Aug 23, 2019 02:32

Dagen H: Mar 19, 2009; Hogertrafikomlaggningen

Redczar posted:

https://twitter.com/CazadorDeTrolls/status/1164271443473031170?s=20

# ? Aug 23, 2019 02:48

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

ATP_Power posted:

Reminds me of This event from 2001 where some Georgian (former USSR republic, not the US state) found some discarded RTG cores and used them as heaters while camping.

There was those guys in Brazil that stole some radioisotope sources from a cancer treatment machine that was scrapped.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident?wprov=sfla1

# ? Aug 23, 2019 03:15

sincx: Jul 13, 2012; furiously masturbating to anime titties

https://twitter.com/SCMPNews/status/1164538966231539714

# ? Aug 23, 2019 04:25

Captain Hygiene: Sep 17, 2007; You mess with the crabbo...

Still, love the van

# ? Aug 23, 2019 04:27

Cojawfee: May 31, 2006; I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

sincx posted:

https://twitter.com/SCMPNews/status/1164538966231539714

Yeah, but how cool would it be if that van were electric and everything in it, including the door handles themselves, were controlled by electricity. So when the battery inevitably catches fire, it locks you in the burning car?

# ? Aug 23, 2019 04:36

d3lness: Feb 19, 2011; Unicorns are metal. Gundanium alloy to be exact...

Cojawfee posted:

Yeah, but how cool would it be if that van were electric and everything in it, including the door handles themselves, were controlled by electricity. So when the battery inevitably catches fire, it locks you in the burning car?

Musk thread is that way, fellow brother/sister.

# ? Aug 23, 2019 04:48