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The longest-running scientific experiment, the Pitch Drop at the University of Queensland, Brisbane @brisbane

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Oh boy I've always wanted to see a livestream of a seemingly solid object!

Jokes aside, this experiment is really interesting

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I was watching it the other day and someone came and waved at the camera. Craziest thing I've ever seen on there, but I didn't think about it for too long, if I did - I would miss the drop.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It would be weird if university students weren't protesting something.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

There were no interesting big protests when I was in uni. Huge protests the year before I started against some corruption in the student union rep elections, and obviously plenty of times people were angry at one thing or another, but nothing like the full on camping-out protests we've got going on right now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

MSU's 142-year-old Beal Seed Experiment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

@Spitzspot yeah I dunno why exactly the Pitch Drop experiment gets the label "longest continually-running experiment". Probably some kind of technicality about what exactly counts as "experiment" and "continually-running". There are some even older than Beal's listed on Wikipedia, depending on how you define it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_experiment