Folks reading way too much into this lol.
The meme is from a music video with a strong percussive beat; not unlike an off balance centrifuge.
The music video: youtu.be/j9V78UbdzWI
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gilindoeslemmy@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I don’t get it. Can someone explain?
natecox@programming.dev 5 hours ago
nagaram@startrek.website 4 hours ago
Folks reading way too much into this lol.
reads too much into it
The joke is they died!
413j0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Unbalanced centrifuge, IRL a small tabletop one like the image will just be a really expensive mistake, but the worst case scenario can indeed be lethal. Here is a larger one exploding www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8IOL5iLwG8&t=40
crank0271@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Crazy video… can you remove the timestamp? 40s shows the aftermath.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
Whoa.
clif@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
First frame isa centrifuge that spins samples at high speed to separate the components in them (I think that’s the purpose, not a scientist).
I hear that if it’s unbalanced, bad things happen, because you’re not spinning an unbalanced rotor at high speeds.
I honestly was coming to check the comments to see if anyone had experience with it so I could ask how bad it is.
Eheran@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
The centrifuge would not run like that, it noticed the vibrations and turns off. They had that “feature” for decades now.
clif@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
That’s awesome… And also funny that it had to be added. Thanks for the info!
I still want to know what happens on an old one without vibration detection or if it was “broken”. I assume something like an unbalanced washing machine but on a smaller scale? It just going out for a stroll :)
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Science is a whole lot of adjusting after someone died. Like, it’s mostly been that.
Eheran@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Oh that can absolutely end in a desaster. Like not breaking when driving a car when you absolutely should.
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
The funeral depicted is a viral video where the pallbearers are dancing/swaying so it’s like you’ll die and even your casket will be moving afterwards.
FairycorePhoebe@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
I work in a lab. I’ve seen centrifuges try to walk off the counter before.
Triumph@fedia.io 7 hours ago
I thought it was a birth control pill box.
SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 12 minutes ago
I got weird rotary phone, GameCube, then that funeral video. I sort of thought this was some millennial meme I’m too out of the loop to understand. Lemmy is full of those.
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
It depends on the speed and size of the centrifuge, the mass of the load, and the magnitude of the imbalance. Someone else mentioned an ultracentrifuge, typically a large, washing-machine-like device that can spin larger loads at high velocity. The amount of energy released if they become significantly unbalanced is pretty huge: they have a containment layer, but some could kill you if the load got through and hit you.
On the flip side, I may have intentionally ran unbalanced microcentrifuges a few (many, it was many) times as a grad student because I was too tired and lazy to make a counterweight. I just held it down with fairly firm pressure and it was fine. That’s not very good for its bearings, though. Sorry lab manager!
Dasus@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I was thinking wheel balancer
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
I’m not sure about the more classic devices but a lot of game controllers and phones these days use linear motors or similar piezoelectric devices for vibration. For instance Apple’s “Taptic Engine”.