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Re: What was the last thing you took photo of?
« Reply #135 on: April 20, 2017, 11:07:10 AM »
I shall pretend I didn't hear that question odeon.

And you may pretend you got an answer.

Why?

It's an honest but also a rather uncomfortable question. Why should your chemistry experiments be subsidised if Gormley's art isn't?



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Re: What was the last thing you took photo of?
« Reply #136 on: April 20, 2017, 11:44:52 AM »
I shall pretend I didn't hear that question odeon.

And you may pretend you got an answer.

Why?

It's an honest but also a rather uncomfortable question. Why should your chemistry experiments be subsidised if Gormley's art isn't?

Cos he has the ability to blow people up!
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Re: What was the last thing you took photo of?
« Reply #137 on: April 20, 2017, 12:28:18 PM »
Because the answer could put me at risk, is why, not because of any personal misgivings about people's opinions. And this is posted where anybody could read it.
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Re: What was the last thing you took photo of?
« Reply #138 on: April 20, 2017, 12:37:57 PM »
Because the answer could put me at risk, is why, not because of any personal misgivings about people's opinions. And this is posted where anybody could read it.

Everything you post is posted somewhere that anybody could read.  Don't confuse the Elders Forum for some secure location.

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Re: What was the last thing you took photo of?
« Reply #139 on: April 20, 2017, 01:20:41 PM »
I had no such misapprehensions.

Last thing I took a photo of:
Vacuum-assisted ultra-microfiltration (the round wheel-looking thing is a super-fine pad of filter membranes, which are fine enough to filter out even many viruses. Nothing alive being filtered in this case, just some extremely fine colloidal suspension that would be impossible to filter with conventional filter media, twice pre-filtered, first using a large capacity syringe (20ml or so at a time) and cigarette filters for making rollups, then through a filter membrane with pores a couple of microns wide, before finally going through first a surgical mask (the pore size is much finer than conventional filter paper) to stop it clogging up the ultrafilter, then the thing to be filtered sucked through that under reduced pressure at the vacuum pump (the blue hose leads down to the actual pump, not shown)



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Re: What was the last thing you took photo of?
« Reply #140 on: April 20, 2017, 09:29:56 PM »
I have a longing to clean up your workspaces. I'm a minimalist.
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Re: What was the last thing you took photo of?
« Reply #141 on: April 20, 2017, 11:16:19 PM »
I shall pretend I didn't hear that question odeon.

And you may pretend you got an answer.

Why?

It's an honest but also a rather uncomfortable question. Why should your chemistry experiments be subsidised if Gormley's art isn't?

Cos he has the ability to blow people up!

I have to say, I'd prefer art if it was my tax money.
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Re: What was the last thing you took photo of?
« Reply #142 on: April 21, 2017, 03:54:35 AM »
I have a longing to clean up your workspaces. I'm a minimalist.

  You should see my apartment.  I try to keep up with the clutter, but I fail.  :autism:
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Re: What was the last thing you took photo of?
« Reply #143 on: April 21, 2017, 04:19:16 AM »
Actually ren, I have been decluttering, getting rid of anything no longer useful.

And who said I was blowing anything up? that kind of thing is (for the most part) fairly simple chemistry.  Doesn't take a genius to knock up something that goes 'boom' and makes a mess. If it did, then there wouldn't be quite such a large jihadi problem now would there? They aren't exactly known for their intellect.

It takes a lot more to create something than to tear something that already exists to pieces.
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Re: What was the last thing you took photo of?
« Reply #144 on: April 21, 2017, 04:34:19 AM »
Actually ren, I have been decluttering, getting rid of anything no longer useful.

And who said I was blowing anything up? that kind of thing is (for the most part) fairly simple chemistry.  Doesn't take a genius to knock up something that goes 'boom' and makes a mess. If it did, then there wouldn't be quite such a large jihadi problem now would there? They aren't exactly known for their intellect.

It takes a lot more to create something than to tear something that already exists to pieces.

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Re: What was the last thing you took photo of?
« Reply #145 on: April 29, 2017, 08:35:10 AM »
New soxhlet extractor (allihn condenser attached)

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Re: What was the last thing you took photo of?
« Reply #146 on: April 29, 2017, 05:30:40 PM »
New soxhlet extractor (allihn condenser attached)

I like the way you're holding it between your legs like a big phallic symbol.  :orly: That's hawt.  :zoinks:
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Re: What was the last thing you took photo of?
« Reply #147 on: April 29, 2017, 07:01:10 PM »
Wasn't quite what was intended. It had to go somewhere, and that was the only way I could keep it in one place keep it at a position where it couldn't fall, had to keep the camera at a distance sufficient to keep the entire thing in focus, although I couldn't actually see it and take the photo at the same time, had to hold the camera behind my shoulder, together, condenser and soxhlet are a bit short of 3 feet long. And not like I could have used my dick as a mount, the condenser joint isn't wide enough.

Anyway, of people here, ren and the PR are more my type:P
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Re: What was the last thing you took photo of?
« Reply #148 on: April 29, 2017, 09:46:45 PM »
Wasn't quite what was intended.

Phallic symbolism is often subconscious.  :zoinks:
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Re: What was the last thing you took photo of?
« Reply #149 on: April 29, 2017, 11:23:27 PM »
New soxhlet extractor (allihn condenser attached)
I like the way you're holding it between your legs like a big phallic symbol.  :orly: That's hawt.  :zoinks:
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But seriously, that's a nice piece of glassware.
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