I don’t get it. Can someone explain?
First frame is a centrifuge that spins samples at high speed to separate the components in them (I think that’s the purpose, not a scientist). But, the samples are on one side making it unbalanced.
Second frame is turning the centrifuge on.
Third frame is a funeral.
I hear that if it’s unbalanced, bad things happen, because you’re spinning an unbalanced rotor at high speeds.
I honestly was coming to check the comments to see if anyone had experience with it so I could ask how bad it is.
The comic is insinuating that if you do this, you die.
EDIT: an unbalanced weight on a motor is how the vibration function in your phone works… Along with other things that need to vibrate (yes, those things). At least, that’s how they used to work.
The centrifuge would not run like that, it noticed the vibrations and turns off. They had that “feature” for decades now.
That’s awesome… And also funny that it had to be added. Thanks for the info!
I still want to know what happens on an old one without vibration detection or if it was “broken”. I assume something like an unbalanced washing machine but on a smaller scale? It just going out for a stroll :)
Science is a whole lot of adjusting after someone died. Like, it’s mostly been that.
e: want nightmares? Here’s the Karen Wetterhahn Memorial Award. All the precautions and yet… not enough.
Oh that can absolutely end in a desaster. Like not breaking when driving a car when you absolutely should.
The funeral depicted is a viral video where the pallbearers are dancing/swaying so it’s like you’ll die and even your casket will be moving afterwards.
to separate the conponents
Scientist here. That’s what it’s for. A centrifuge makes the tubes experience very high accelerations, like 100 times the force of gravity, to separate liquids and solids by density. For example you could put blood in there and get a layer of red blood cells and a layer of plasma stacked on top of each other.
More like 16,000 x g for a normal desktop centrifuge and 80,000 x g+ for an ultracentrifuge
- Remove the counterweight from your washing machine.
- Throw said counterweight inside the washing machine.
- Activate the spin cycle of your washing machine.
- Find out.
:)
Folks reading way too much into this lol.
The meme is from a music video with a strong percussive beat; not unlike an off balance centrifuge.
The music video: https://youtu.be/j9V78UbdzWI
Nor in the pic: the lab technician going to jail for murder. Or the broken centrifuge.
My thought at the first panel was ‘welp, time for the Motrin’. Then ‘ohhh’.
I saw birth control -> baby scale -> death. I was like wtf. Lol.
That’ll happen when you set the baby scale to 13,200 rpm.
I thought it was the same thing in the first frame : D
Panel 3 makes sense both ways. (x_x)
That’s exactly what I thought too. I had to stare at this one for a while to get it.
