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This is absolutely hilarious.
I see the link has now just been posted on "I f-ing Love Science"'s page as well 🙂
 
sinombre said:
"Blood samples were spun at 1500rpm because the centrifuge made a scary noise at higher speeds."

Haha... I totally have a centrifuge phobia.
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I just exit the room after I start it at high speeds, especially when it starts shaking or walking for some reason...🙄
 
Neuronette said:
hahahaa indeed! But I always thought it was fascinating how a machine could be rotating tens of thousands of times per minute. :O
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Seriously. The desktop ones alone can go at 13k rpm, which is like 200 rotations a second. That's pretty darn fast.

PS: Bad this happen when you don't balance the large ones...

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There goes several thousand $$$$ along with your reputation in the lab. yikes.
Some idiots in my gen chem lab almost did that once when they forgot to balance the machine... It sounded like gunshots firing from inside the machine
 
Neuronette said:
There goes several thousand $$$$ along with your reputation in the lab. yikes.
Some idiots in my gen chem lab almost did that once when they forgot to balance the machine... It sounded like gunshots firing from inside the machine
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We have an extremely high precision balance in our lab and one time someone accidentally took it off one hinge and let it hang there for a few days before someone noticed 🙁 Lots of money went back into fixing it.
 
What happened to the person that did it? In the lab I used to intern at, someone broke this extremely expensive cryosection machine and I dont think the person got fired or anything but no students (or ppl without direct permission from the lab PI) were ever allowed to go near it again. ever.
 
I remembered my professor said that a couple of years ago, someone forgot to balance a high powered centrifugation machine and they left it over night....the next day, there was a huge hole on the side of the building. The machine blew up and landed in the nearby glass green house... not sure if it was true but its possible
 
My lab instructor (who was chinese surprise surprise) was telling us back in China how they had a giant centrifuge like a meter wide shot through the ceiling and everyone in the class laughed. Then he told us someone died from that and we all felt like dicks
 
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