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[–] chemicalprophet@lemm.ee 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ChlorineAddict@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Sad pipet noises

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Explanation? Are these guys huffing ether or something?

[–] Quereller@lemmy.one 85 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They pipette by mouth, which is not very safe.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 82 points 1 year ago (1 children)

but how are we supposed to accidentally discover artificial sweeteners?

[–] new_guy@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By distilling piss from diabetic people? Idk I'm not a scientist i just like the memes

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

unless you drink from the pipet

[–] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 year ago

Basically it took many years before someone developed something that could be run with a trigger or button. Before that you used a vacuum (your mouth) to pull liquid into a pipette. Heard an older chemistry professor talk about a colleague who years before swallowed a salmonella sample by accident. A lot of people surely got hurt this way.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

not a scientist but I'm guessing they are siphoning some chemical by sucking up a small amount in the tube to transfer it to another container

[–] HonkTonkWoman@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Aww, I thought they were blowing bubbles. Looked like fun.

[–] atocci@kbin.social 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look how long their fancy straws are! I bet they keep chemicals a safe distance away from possible ingestion!

[–] CouncilOfFriends 3 points 1 year ago

I'm wondering if a crazy straw was tested...for safety

[–] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago

lol lol let me suck up this salmonella sample real fast

[–] quiterather@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought they were sipping pee to test for diabetes 😋😌

Uh, yeah, suck it, pipet boy.

[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The silliest of straws.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Pipettecore ftw!?