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u/Ok-Replacement8864 1d ago
This just made me realise I don’t know any scientists in real life. Not only that but I don’t know where they would even work. What does a lab look like from the outside?
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u/Catpixfever 1d ago
Usually like an office building, but perhaps brighter. Lots of cabinets and vents if they’re doing work with chemicals. Depends on the kind of lab too. A robotics lab won’t look like a chemistry or biology lab.
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u/THE_FOREVER_GM1 1d ago
I’m an electrical engineering student in college, so I can at least speak for robotics labs. Most are indistinguishable from your average office or university building. The labs I’ve been to have garages out back for when more heavy duty machines need to be brought in, but from the outside it’s nothing special.
I did get a tour of a labs secret death laser they are making to take over the tri state area, but that besides the point. One guy was REALLY hung up about frying small mammals.
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u/Public-Eagle6992 1d ago
Just a regular building. Sometimes you can see some stuff from the outside but it’s usually not distinguishable from any office building
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u/gfkxchy 22h ago
Have you driven by a university? It's full of laboratories. There's scientists everywhere. Some are Very Important and have a doctorate and fat stacks of grant money to study things while they teach, others are grad students (so basically useless), but there's a lot of them in there doing sciencey stuff all day.
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u/zamonto 1d ago
It's literally never scientists who don't want you to know stuff. Its investors and politicians who chose what science the universities are able to do