Do you ever wish you had a centrifuge?

[DS1]

I'd be separating all kinds of stuff. Hot sauce, soups, gatorade, blood, mayo, hamsters.

[Random_Australian]

1. When I was young I built one out of an old bike, does that count?

[DS1]

2. I guess

and good idea.

[geardaddy]

3. Absolutley.

[SOteric]

4. Nah, I've already got a salad spinner. But, -

I've often wished I had a cyclotron.

[underpants]

5. You don't?

:shrug:

[trof]

6. All the time.

[harmonicon]

7. all the time

[madinmaryland]

8. I'd use it in GD:P to separate all of the Hillary and Obama posts!

[RushIsRot]

9. Hamsters? You could presidential material! Can you smirk? Can you

speak in incomplete sentences? Can you slouch over the podium? Can you say, "Peeance, freeance"?

[TZ]

10. hmm, I could get you one on the cheap I suppose

Slightly used though. Might want to clean out that icky human blood in it though....:)

And the answer is no for me..I get to play enough with them at work. Don't need them at home (have you ever heard a centrifuge that doesn't work right...ear splitting noises)

[lizerdbits]

14. Ever used an ultra centrifuge?

We just had to have the oil changed in ours because every time the vacuum was turned on the entire room smelled like shit. Fortunately I didn't work in that room, I just put my virus in, turned it on, and went back to my lab. I didn't notice until I came back an hour later and wondered which person forgot to wipe their ass.

[TZ]

17. They have one at work, but I don't use it.

But I have a microcentrifuge that sits right next to me..that makes horrible shrieks when you use it.
Thank god we get pre-treated serum in and not whole blood.

[pinniped]

11. Blood's cool to centrifuge.

I saw a jar of mayo in the store that was a milky white blob floating around in oily goo.

Somehow it got separated or someone forgot to shake it.

[northzax]

12. why yea

I find it increasingly tiresome to separate my U-237 from my U-235 with tweezers.

[Canuckistanian]

13. Then what do you do with the "separated liquids"?

Do they make good explosives?

[DS1]

19. shake it back together

I could spend hours in the salad dressing aisle of the supermarket

[lizerdbits]

15. Condiments in a density gradient

That could be interesting.

[IndianaJones]

16. I wish I had one of those magnetic mixers. nt.

[Rabrrrrrr]

18. YES! Since I was in junior high I've wanted one,

I also want a cyclotron, but that's unrealistic.

[SOteric]

21. I've always said,

"If you're going to dream, dream big."

[Rabrrrrrr]

22. And that's why I dream of you and me owning Chateau Petrus

:7

[SOteric]

23. Absolutely!

When you rule the world, it will be so!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

20. Go over to GD-P. There's enough spinning there to take care of all of your centrifuge needs.

[Catshrink]

24. I have a centifuge

so eat your heart out. It's just a little one but hey, I think it counts.

I used to have all kinds -- microfuges to ultrafuges -- but I don't work in the lab anymore. Of course, there's always the washing machine.

[triguy46]

25. When I was a kid the local playgrounds all had kid powered, push, merry go rounds...

and we would lay down and spin, and spin, and spin. Kind of a centrifuge. Got the blood to the brain which is probably dangerous in 8 year olds.

[racaulk]

26. I want one so I can figure out who the mother of my child is.

(Anyone get the joke?)

[DS1]

27. Does this have anything to do with a 4-assed monkey?

[racaulk]

29. No, Dr. Mephisto, it doesn't!

:rofl:

But it does have something to do with a certain one-eyed woman.

[TZ]

28. Does it have anything to do with this ?

The PCR song...when you want to know who's your daddy...
http://science.easternblot.net/?p=594

Warning funny scientist humor!!

[racaulk]

30. LOL

Not exactly... ;)

See post #29 upthread.