I love the ridiculous things people make for science.
a giant spinning ball of liquid sodium, a tube-shaped explosive that launches itself upwards, a gigantic tank holding fifty thousand tons of distilled water, a glass tube filled with literally nothing, Just A Really Deep Hole, a giant block of permafrost in Antarctica surrounded by sensors...
@Felthry wait what's the first one?
@starkatt see the reply!
@Felthry Well that's a terrifying piece of hardware.
terrifying and awesome.
@starkatt it's the sort of science that makes you want to just wear a shirt that says "SCIENCE!" with like a velociraptor wearing sunglasses and holding an erlenmeyer flask or something and there's an explosion in the background
@starkatt honestly science is at its best when the instruments used for it are both terrifying and awesome
the LHC, that giant sodium sphere, the NIF laser, the entire field of rocketry, the Z machine...