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scigirl · 04-09-2003, 08:27 PM

Ha ha - too funny.

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"Nyah, nyah, nyah, Mars is too inhospitable for life," said Columbus, OH, resident Bryan Olin. "We're scientists and we make everything boring. We want proof of everything and don't want space exploration to be fun."

These scientists should depend less on cold, hard data and more on their imaginations. They'd probably be a lot less cranky."

scigirl

Quetzal · 04-09-2003, 11:52 PM

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Originally posted by WWSD
Feh, ecologists! You know what the ecologists are doing right now? They are out riding thier bikes and playing frisbee. Meanwhile we molecular people are in the lab, where it is hot becasue the chilled water is off, patiently waiting for our columns to elute. Patiently and diligently waiting until our gels run. Patiently realizing that we just forgot to stop that particular gel, and not-so-patiently getting very angry because we know that we just ran all of our godddamned DNA off the end of said gel.

And the poor ecologists?
I do not pity them with thier frisbees and their bikes and thier outdoorsyness.

At least molecular biologists get research grants and shiny new lab equipment. Ecologists have to make their own livetraps, use crayola crayons and borrowed felt tips for marking releases, and stand on street corners begging for spare change to buy the latest field guides and new hiking boots.

Morpho the Tropical Ecologist "Will Research for Food"

Wounded King · 04-10-2003, 01:05 AM

Well when I was a grad student I used to have to get to the lab at 4 AM every Day. I then had to perform 2 radioactive protocols in 3 hours at the same time as running 123 gels. For lunch all we got was old acrylamide gels and every afternoon my PI would brutally murder me with a vibratome.

Tell that to a PhD student nowadays, and they wont believe you.:boohoo:

Ab_Normal · 04-10-2003, 08:44 AM

Wounded King: :notworthy :notworthy :notworthy

BioBeing · 04-10-2003, 09:04 AM

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Originally posted by Wounded King
Well when I was a grad student I used to have to get to the lab at 4 AM every Day. I then had to perform 2 radioactive protocols in 3 hours at the same time as running 123 gels. For lunch all we got was old acrylamide gels and every afternoon my PI would brutally murder me with a vibratome.

Tell that to a PhD student nowadays, and they wont believe you.:boohoo:

Luxury!

When I was a PhD student, I had to get to the lab an hour before I left, purify 6,734 proteins a day, standing in the cold room without a lab coat. [And I had to clone the genes myself.] Then, I had to lick out the 30 L fermentor clean, perform 3 metabolic labeling experiments using P32 and C14, and spin the cells in a hand crank centrifuge. Then, if I was lucky, my mentor would murder me by forcing me to drink myself to death.

Actually, that last bit is almost true...

lisarea · 04-10-2003, 09:22 AM

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Originally posted by BioBeing
No we are not mean. Oh wait, the article, hmmmm - OK - those are cosmotologists or something.

DUH. Those are not cosmetologists! Cosmetologists are scientists of beauty! Get down on your knees and thank them every day! If it were not for them, we would not have the bounty of mysterious and sciencey beauty sauces that have created the soft-focused and glamorous Pierre et Gilles style world we live in today! Haven't you ever looked at old-timey pictures in science books that show those ugly-assed old-timey people who looked like monkeys with those long, saggy hooters, and hair all over their backs? If not for the science of cosmetology, IT WOULD STILL BE LIKE THAT NOW.

The guys in that article are ASTROLOGERS. And of this there can be no doubt: Astrologers are assholes. I am going to start calling them "Ass-trologers," in fact, to add a sort of folk etymology twist to my damning indictment of them.

Wyz_sub10 · 04-10-2003, 09:37 AM

As charming as this discussion is (and believe you me, it is charming) it's more of a "Humour" topic.

Buddrow_Wilson · 04-10-2003, 11:34 AM

Mycologists are nice n friendly. They will paint a rosy outlook for you.

Elbereth · 04-10-2003, 11:36 AM

Ahem.... calling Astrologers scientists is like calling Psychics scientists.... they are not.

Perhaps you mean Astronomers? Cosmologers? Astrophysicists?

Astronomers aren't mean, but what do you expect, walking around with a sense of how incredibly unimportant we are in an incredibly humongous universe could make it seem that way sometimes...

Calzaer · 04-10-2003, 12:49 PM

For a second there, I thought you said "calling astrologers scientists is like calling physicists scientists".

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04-10-2003, 01:05 AM	#13
Wounded King Veteran Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Edinburgh Posts: 1,211	Well when I was a grad student I used to have to get to the lab at 4 AM every Day. I then had to perform 2 radioactive protocols in 3 hours at the same time as running 123 gels. For lunch all we got was old acrylamide gels and every afternoon my PI would brutally murder me with a vibratome. Tell that to a PhD student nowadays, and they wont believe you.:boohoo:

04-10-2003, 08:44 AM	#14
Ab_Normal Veteran Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,842	Wounded King: :notworthy :notworthy :notworthy

04-10-2003, 09:37 AM	#17
Wyz_sub10 Veteran Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: In the land of two boys and no sleep. Posts: 9,890	As charming as this discussion is (and believe you me, it is charming) it's more of a "Humour" topic.

04-10-2003, 11:34 AM	#18
Buddrow_Wilson Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Arkansas Posts: 1,589	Mycologists are nice n friendly. They will paint a rosy outlook for you.

04-10-2003, 11:36 AM	#19
Elbereth Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Germantown, MD / U. Pittsburgh Posts: 74	Ahem.... calling Astrologers scientists is like calling Psychics scientists.... they are not. Perhaps you mean Astronomers? Cosmologers? Astrophysicists? Astronomers aren't mean, but what do you expect, walking around with a sense of how incredibly unimportant we are in an incredibly humongous universe could make it seem that way sometimes...

04-10-2003, 12:49 PM	#20
Calzaer Veteran Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Ohio Posts: 2,762	For a second there, I thought you said "calling astrologers scientists is like calling physicists scientists".

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