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In undergrad, I spent countless hours with a mortar and pestle, sintering, and annealing to research a particular superconductor, never getting much sleep becau
by scarmig 3y ago
In undergrad, I spent countless hours with a mortar and pestle, sintering, and annealing to research a particular superconductor, never getting much sleep because I had to wake up every couple hours to make sure nothing had gone awry... It tickles me that they were doing the same thing. Hoping that they get the big win here, for all of our sakes.
- fizx 3y agoYup. Also tickles me that I might have had better equipment than this team, though we still had to source sample carriers from McDonalds. The multi-million-dollar measurement apparatus required us to put samples in disposable tubes that cost about a dollar each. They turned out to have the exact same physical properties as a McDonalds straw, so once a week someone made a food run and grabbed a handful on the way out.
- scarmig 3y agoFor the SQUID? Now that brings back even more memories. We got ours from the dining halls.