One of my favorites!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOURLAgQT_8
On Thursday, March 8, 2012 1:52:09 AM UTC-6, Nathan McCorkle wrote:
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:08 AM, Daniel C. <dcrookston@gmail.com> wrote:--
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 1:52 AM, Dan Wright <djwrister@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Good to know that you can only die from heart or brain damage. I will tell
>> my carotid artery, femoral artery and aorta. Oh that sucking chest wound
>> would bring extra oxygen to my lungs.
>
> If you get hit in an artery, direct pressure or a tourniquet and
> lactate ringer will keep you alive until you get to the hospital.
> (Unless you're one unlucky S.O.B., in which case you're dead anyway.)
> Battlefield first aid for sucking chest wounds is trivial. I'm
> qualified to deal with any of those wounds, and I'm not even a medic.
> But regardless, a flying piece of plastic isn't going to blast open a
> major artery and cause you to bleed out :P I don't have the math
> skills to calculate the probability of this is, but I'm quite certain
> it's very low. We should focus on what's infinitely more likely -
> that if someone tries to create an ultracentrifuge at home, they will
> seriously injure themselves in some non-life-threatening way. "You
> could die" is seldom taken seriously, while "you could seriously
> injure yourself, likely badly enough to require hospitalization, and a
> permanent and life-altering maiming is not out of the question" is
> more likely to be heeded.
>
> -Dan
>
> --You could easily be blinded with an eppendorf (or part of the plastic
centrifuge rotor that was discussed much earlier in this thread), and
then knock stuff over (open flames,
chemicals which burn or explode or poison), which could result in
pretty bad things.
--
Nathan McCorkle
Rochester Institute of Technology
College of Science, Biotechnology/Bioinformatics
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