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BuddyTheBeefalo@lemmy.ml to Science@beehaw.org · 2 years ago

Decades of research destroyed after freezer fails at Swedish university

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Decades of research destroyed after freezer fails at Swedish university

www.theguardian.com

BuddyTheBeefalo@lemmy.ml to Science@beehaw.org · 2 years ago
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Estimated value of the samples thought to be in the millions as incident reported to police
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    Bro what? Because of a fucking freezer?!?

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      Well, 16 cryogenic tanks.

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        How can all 16 fail at once and how can nobody notice before its to late?

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          Maybe a janitor turned off power to the whole lab to stop the irritating alarms… no, wait, I think that was a different case.

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            This happened?!?

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              Yep

              https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/27/cleaner-college-research-freezer-rensselaer-polytechnic-institute

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                Omg

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          Everybody was out of town for Christmas.

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            More likely, they were saving costs and fired the non-essential janitor who turned out to be totally fucking essential

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              Ironically, firing the non-essential janitor would have prevented the last incident of this type

              https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/27/cleaner-college-research-freezer-rensselaer-polytechnic-institute

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              Most likely that.

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          Because they were home for Christmas. Of course they should have better monitoring, but that is why.

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