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Scrounging for Fun and Profit

Posted by michael on from the five-finger-discount dept.

Guinnessy writes: "According to Toni Feder on Physics Today, scrounging used equipment is worthwhile if you can avoid the pitfalls of wasting time and compromising scientific goals. Feder interviews experimenters who have dug up everything from dewars to nuclear reactors."

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  1. Heh.... by EFGearman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Think about it for a second. A whole new season of junkyard wars... With nukes...

    Eric Gearman

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    Atomic batteries to power! Turbines to speed!
  2. Re:Warning about scrounging by Johnny5000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Before my computer programming days I worked in a biology lab.

    Not only did we find a bunch of mystery chemicals with no labels, but we found herring sperm.

    Unfortunately it was expired. Oh, the things I could have done with the herring sperm.

    That's got to be quite a job, working in the herring sperm factory.

    *wakes up in the morning*
    "Dammit, If I have to whack off one more herring, I'm going to die. I'll just die."

    "oh lord, when will you dry up this river of herring sperm I see before me?"

    -J5K

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    The libertarian solution to the failures of capitalism is to apply more capitalism til the failures are fixed.