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squeakadeeks · 9 months ago

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yesterday when i was in bed falling asleep i got a call that the lab was about to literally explode. i didnt have time to get dressed, i could barely put on shoes and a coat before sprinting like a bat out of hell to the lab and open a valve to prevent the entire system from over pressurising and failing. girly pops i had so much adrenaline in my system on that drive and subsequent literal sprint into the lab i felt like i inhaled a kilo of high purity cocaine and i could hear my heartbeat for hours afterwards

#its hard to explain what actually happened in layman's terms but #the gist is i was running experiments at near 0K #and then i had to warm the system back up #and in that process the helium gas thermally expands over 1000 times #and we have two chambers with no safety relief valves #one of them was open but the other was not and that was the valve i had to drive over and open manually #good times i havent been that scared in a HAUGHT minute

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