guys in e lab

at one point there was only one guy in e lab, now there are seven! guys are useful to have around, because e cat can barely lift e 14.9kg GSA rotor, & it is totally unable to make e 21.2kg GS3 rotor budge from its place on e centrifuge rotor shelves, let alone lift it up & carry it over to e centrifuge & then lower it down into e chamber.

e cat resorts to spinning >250ml of culture by splitting it up into more than one bottle, or in batches using back e same bottles (so that e pellet accumulates in e same bottle). when it comes to e old giant models of ultracentrifuges, it has no choice but to call for help as it cannot lower e rotor into e chamber without setting off e alarm - by e time its front paws reach somewhere near e bottom of e chamber, e cat itself has disappeared almost halfway into e centrifuge =P

e cat figured out that 10kg is around e maximum that it can carry with its front paws & walk for a distance, when it had to fetch MQ water from another lab to its UROPS lab (literally tiao1 shui3) using 10 litre carboys. that lab (& e neighbouring ones) had no trolley, so e cat cheated a few times by kidnapping a lab stool with wheels when nobody was looking =P

honours year taught e cat that 1/3 of its weight is e maximum that it can lift with its front paws, when it ended up in a lab that had only 20 litre carboys! but that lab had a trolley, or e cat would have never made it from e 6th floor to e 5th alive. & e boss still had e cheek to ask it why it didn't fill e 20 litre carboy to e max *BISH*

e other females in e lab are happy with more guys around too, because they are useful for things like moving CO2 & N2 cylinders (taller than e cat!), carrying heavy things down from high shelves, & lifting up e xiao3 he2 dan4 (little atomic bomb aka. e liquid N2 transporter/dewar) to top up e liquid N2 biological storage tanks.

think e guy who used to be e sole guy in e lab (apart from e boss) must be damn relieved *hiakz*

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