• Question: have u ever had something go realy bad due 2 any experiment u have done!?

    Asked by sophie7 to Robert, Susanne on 23 Nov 2012.
    • Photo: Robert Insall

      Robert Insall answered on 23 Nov 2012:

      No, fortunately.

      A pal of mine burned down a building by putting ether in a freezer. It exploded and set the lab on fire…

    • Photo: Susanne Muekusch

      Susanne Muekusch answered on 23 Nov 2012:

      Hi Sophie,

      No. But I usually don’t work with really dangerous stuff like explosives. Although I have heard a lot of scary lab stories, too: centrifuges going through the walls, fellow scientists collapsing because someone was stupid enough to leave dry ice in the cold room…

      You better be careful while experimenting. And wear things like goggles. I didn’t once and the result really hurt…

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    Robert commented on :

    Actually – I also once dug up a really, really dangerous amoeba from the soil. It was called Naegleria (look it up in wikipedia if you want to know…). Nobody has ever survived being infected with Naegleria, that we know about anyway.

    Once I realised what I was growing I killed it pretty quick, and nobody got infected. Phew.