Dumb things you've doneWhat's the stupidest thing you've ever done to yourself?
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chthonic, Thu 20 Dec 2007, 12:36)
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PhD: No guarantee of intelligenceWas doing some research over the summer with a PhD student to do with boiling of propane.
We were doing a preliminary experiment, boiling a column of water and staring at bubbles. (this story is getting exciting already...)
We decided that the quickest way to demonstrate a certain type of boiling was to heat a pocket of water using a hot wire. But how to heat the wire?
Bare, uninsulated wire, straight into the mains, then into a column of water.
Bye bye health & safety. Fortunately, glad to see my eyebrows are still around.
(, Thu 20 Dec 2007, 16:00, Reply)
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