#43

I mean I hope it’s life, but as someone pointed out elsewhere, it’s more likely to be a novel synthesis because we haven’t invested a lot of time or effort into producing syntheses of a molecule we can already make, but using a factory the size of a planet, in tiny quantities, at 500C in the absence of water and oxygen.

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#44

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Benedict Cumberbatch knew then.

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#45

No, his science lab’s just out of date.

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#46

:D!

He’s got suspicious eyes and mannerisms, he’s a parody of an English man. Wouldn’t be surprised if you opened him up and there was a tiny alien controlling him, like inside a Dalek.

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#47

Blatantly made-up name gives him away too

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#48

that orange rubber tubing that connected the bunsen burners to the gas pipes that you’re certain are close to perishing through age.

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#49

burning shit loads of splints because you are bored and not paying attention

#sciencelabstories

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#50

enjoyed the contrast between epimer and kermits posts right after one another

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#51

what were splints for apart from mindlessly burning?

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#52

My mate Chris was mucking around when we were doing something with hydrochloric acid and was blowing bubbles into the conical flask with a straw, but he held his breath too long and breathed it in instinctively then got rushed off out of the room. That was a wild lesson

#53

can’t believe we were allowed mostly unsupervised access to acid and fire, fucking ridiculous

#54

:musical_note:
Baby don’t hurt me
Don’t hurt me
No more
:musical_note:

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#55

Safer to light a bunsen with them

#56

And gas taps

#57

I remember one of my friends getting a little bonfire going made out of splints.

I also built a kind of fuel tablet out of bits of old paper, wood and glue. Burned like crazy and had to be thrown in a sink to put it out. Think it was one of the only times I got a detention actually

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