Scientist fun

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This is a page where a collection of "fun things scientists get to do" will accumulate.

[edit] Fun things

• Buy a fancy piece of equipment just because it is cool, even if the plain one at half the price works just as well.
• Get experimental subjects to willingly do really boring and/or weird things. They'll do them because it's for science!

[edit] "Fun" Things

• Spend a vast amount of time purifying a molecule just to show you can do it....even if you could have bought it cheap from a standard supplier.

[edit] External Links

• Fun at Wikipedia (deleted, content below)

Scientist fun is a list of fun, but offbeat things you might get to do if you are a scientist. Feel free to add to the list. Besides the usual Wikipedia niceties, we ask that the list contain only "certain kinds" of scientist fun. Kind of "offbeat fun". So these are the "rules" (bendy though they may be)

1. No "serious" fun should be on the list. E.g.: No "exploring new aspects of nature never before encountered by a human being blah blah blah" sort of stuff. That sort of thing may indeed be fun, but it's not what we're looking for.
2. Offbeat fun is what we're looking for. Stuff like "I get to cut my fingernails with a $300 pair of dissection scissors (which, incidentally, I just did before starting this article (I know, TMI).
3. The "fun" should be more-or-less available to you only as a scientist, and not available to anyone else. So no "riding a bicycle is fun" sort of thing.
4. You don't have to actually be a scientist to add to the list. If you know of, or can imagine some scientist fun, by all means, put it down on the list! We might want to try something we've not thought of ourselves.

OK, have at it:

It's fun to reverse-liposuction a giraffe and claim it as a victory for science.

It's fun to be a scientist because:

• you get to play with acid
• lighting things on fire is part of your job
• so is melting things
• and if you decide you are bored with lighting things on fire or melting them you can simply make them go BANG!(emo kids make good test subjects if you tell them to do somehting and the refuse simply tell them a kitten will die if they dont)
• you get to take things apart and see what's inside
  • you don't get in trouble even if you can't put them back together
  • It's called "experimenting" and they pay you for it
• You can dress any way you damned well please.
• You own chemicals, but you don't know what they are.
  • or what they do
  • maybe you could try lighting them on fire or melting them
• you get to use shiny machines
• if you make up words, people will just think that they're some sofisticated scientific terms