• Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Presumably they actually just filmed a centrifuge, instead of faking it somehow.

    Why buy a real one? It doesn’t need to work. They spent $20 attaching a disk with holes to a motor.

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      3 days ago

      Maybe. It was a lot more than that though. It had the shell and everything else. I suspect it’d be cheaper and easier to just buy or borrow a real one, even if it’s not usable as lab equipment anymore. It’s not like they’re super uncommon.

      Also, that still needs to be balanced to some degree if it’s spinning reasonably quickly. It doesn’t just suddenly not impart a lot of force because it’s a “fake” centrifuge.