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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.

Major damage to US corporate infrastructure seems more likely to have a real impact on the length of the war. Heart wrenching stories about humanitarian crises don’t seem to have that sort of impact. Even if they would, there are too many of these stories to draw sustained public interest in any single event or group of related events. Corporate involvement at least has a board who has to try to take action on behalf of investors. It wouldn’t be a romantic end, but it might be better than nothing.