Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction… but an unexpected friendship means he may not have to do it alone.
It may be less about what the centrifuge can do and more about the culture surrounding centrifuges. It’s my impression that people who are in a position to be using a centrifuge balance them out of habit. Even if they don’t need to.
Not balancing them (in the event that it is a self balancing one) may be similar to computer science debates about tabs vs spaces. A difference that’s more cultural than important.
I could be wrong, biology isn’t my field. This is just my impression from having watched this debate play out several times.
I think this is a detail done on purpose. Presumably they actually just filmed a centrifuge, instead of faking it somehow. That means it must have been balanced, which means they balanced it another way just to film the “mistake.” I think it’s to get people to talk about this, which is incredibly minor, so people talk about how accurate it is by only having one stupid thing to complain about. Negatives spread a lot easier than positives on the internet.
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.
Vials were put next to each other in the centrifuge.
Unwatchable.
OH MY GOD NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS AND I’M NOT EVEN A BIOLOGIST!!!
Edit: OR A CHEMIST
Then you don’t know that there’s such a thing as a self balancing centrifuge.
People who get hung up on this particular detail need to get over it.
Pretty sure @Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world was kidding :)
It may be less about what the centrifuge can do and more about the culture surrounding centrifuges. It’s my impression that people who are in a position to be using a centrifuge balance them out of habit. Even if they don’t need to.
Not balancing them (in the event that it is a self balancing one) may be similar to computer science debates about tabs vs spaces. A difference that’s more cultural than important.
I could be wrong, biology isn’t my field. This is just my impression from having watched this debate play out several times.
That one was not a self-balancing centrifuge.
It was a fictional centrifuge in a fictional world. 🙄
I think this is a detail done on purpose. Presumably they actually just filmed a centrifuge, instead of faking it somehow. That means it must have been balanced, which means they balanced it another way just to film the “mistake.” I think it’s to get people to talk about this, which is incredibly minor, so people talk about how accurate it is by only having one stupid thing to complain about. Negatives spread a lot easier than positives on the internet.
Why buy a real one? It doesn’t need to work. They spent $20 attaching a disk with holes to a motor.
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.
My main point is that a research scientist like Grace should have loaded it correctly.
I don’t even work anywhere near a lab. and I had the same reaction
Lol. I’m sorry to hear that was the detail in the movie that completely ruined it for you.
Why couldn’t it be a fancy self balancing one?
Grace would not have taken the risk.