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The Best Dangerous Science Jobs
Wired has a list of some very cool but extremely dangerous jobs. A lot of you will also be happy to know that grad student did indeed make the list.

Even the most mundane job in science is hazardous if you don't know what you're doing. Grad students in labs around the world are in constant danger of, well, screwing up. In 2004, a Texas A&M student, for example, was cleaning up a laboratory when a jar of chemicals he was handling suddenly exploded, leaving him with severe lacerations and burns.

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Publish Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 07:07:00 CDT
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Fucking hell, someone survived ebola? That shit is nasty.

Also, number 8, a woman gets herpes from monkey jizz/shit that got in her eye and she died. I shouldn't laugh, but

Yeah, if I'm walking around with an "Ebola laced needle", I'm gonna be really, really, really fucking careful!

Yup, the ability to turn the innards to a bloody mush* that then seeps out your eyes and anus doesn't go well with-

'dammit, I'm having a clumsy day today, I'll just go and put this down, ow shit I stabbed it into my hand, oops'.



*apart from the pancreas, which turns as solid as a rock

HereComesPete wrote:*apart from the pancreas, which turns as solid as a rock

Ow! My pancreas!

Roman Totale wrote:
Ow! My pancreas!

What, did you splinter it?

Roman Totale wrote:Ow! My pancreas!

Thats what she said!

the pancreatic poke

mmmmmmmm Panc Wank