2 ms·
My PhD is funded by a research council and my stipend is £12k. After rent, food and bills there is some room. But it's laughable to think I could repair and ru
by was_a_dev 5y ago
My PhD is funded by a research council and my stipend is £12k. After rent, food and bills there is some room.
But it's laughable to think I could repair and run an electron microscope. Already mentioned, finding a broken microscope for £1k wouldn't happen here. And you're seriously underestimating the resource requirements to operate such a machine
- kkjjkgjjgg 5y agoSo find some professor at a university with an electron microscope and convince them to let you borrow it some times.
- rdtwo 5y agoI think those days are over. Universitys are super corporate now they want to own everything you touch
- kkjjkgjjgg 5y agoOk then think of another cool project that doesn't require an electron microscope.
- was_a_dev 5y agoThat kinda defeats the whole point at that stage?
- rdtwo 5y agoIf my public middle school could do that in some back room closet it can’t be that bad. For reference in us costs and spend your public stipend is less than my city spends per person on homeless folks and half of minimum wage. I think we’re taking different scales of money. These kinds of projects are open to the top 5-10% of earners in the us so 15million or so folks could fund this but only 1-2 actually do it.
- was_a_dev 5y agoThe whole point of my comments were the price scales are out of touch of most people. Not to detract from the achivement. But there's some respect to how the challenges were overcome by the large budget A 22 year old in the top 5% of earns is a very lucky man