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Not Alan Partridge tells us: "I was once offered the chance to co-present a programme on national radio. Audience of millions, but blew up spectacularly, my entire contribution being the rustling of paper in the background. I was that bad, I have since burned my copy of the pilot show." Tell us about your big break, and how you messed it up.

(, Thu 3 Apr 2014, 14:22)
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Blast
When I graduated I was all lined up to do a doctorate in fluid dynamics. My potential supervisor had a crazy idea about blasting DNA and drugs into cells on the surface of tiny particles and wanted someone to do the fluid modelling. At the last moment - my name was already on an office door - I decided to do something else quite different, which turned out disastrously.

And the first project? Google "Powderject" and see where that went. My potential supervisor, and the chap who took over my project, buy new Lamborghinis every time the petrol tank gets empty to save the bother of filling up ...
(, Thu 3 Apr 2014, 17:12, 2 replies)
I always thought they stole this idea from Star Trek

(, Thu 3 Apr 2014, 17:26, closed)
I modelled my own fluid once
Pissed in my mouth.
(, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 1:18, closed)

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