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# I has big cryomagnet at work
Wheeeee!

Drinks liquid helium like it's going out of fashion and can go to five Tesla. It also has a SQUID. I love my work.

AND

I just got evry episode of Monkey Dust sent to me! Woooooo!
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 21 Mar 2009, 18:32, archived)
# What do you do with this big cryomagnet?
I would pray to it.
(I helped save b3ta! Shlvng, Sat 21 Mar 2009, 18:43, archived)
# I measure the magnetic properties of new compounds.
We've got the only one in Switzerland that regularly is used for chemistry (apart from the one at the EPFL). It means I collaborate like a Frenchman.
It's basically a generator. You have a coil and you move a sample in it, thus it generates an electric current. Except it uses superconductors everywhere and (in some models) can detect as few as ten atoms changing their state at a time.
But, for all of this, it's just two large boxes in my lab with a computer on it...
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 21 Mar 2009, 18:48, archived)
# YAY! You win today's award for
The Most Interesting But Totally Unfathomable Job.
(I helped save b3ta! Shlvng, Sat 21 Mar 2009, 18:56, archived)
# I don't understand it either.
But I don't tell them that...
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 21 Mar 2009, 19:10, archived)
# Thusly?
Photobucket
(Guizmeaux, Sat 21 Mar 2009, 18:49, archived)
# Ha!
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 21 Mar 2009, 18:51, archived)
# HAHA! YES.
I would be doing exactly this, all day long.
(I helped save b3ta! Shlvng, Sat 21 Mar 2009, 18:57, archived)
# HAIL LORD OF MAGNET.
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Sat 21 Mar 2009, 18:45, archived)
# Ha!
Everyone at work thinks it's a magic box and that just by handing me the sample, the entire mysery of science has been solved.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 21 Mar 2009, 18:50, archived)
# FUCKING SQUIDDY MAGNET
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Sat 21 Mar 2009, 18:48, archived)
# Half the groups I collaborate with are Chinese...
This made me lol...
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sat 21 Mar 2009, 18:52, archived)
# yay!
:D
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Sat 21 Mar 2009, 19:02, archived)