• Question: What is the wierdest experiment you have ever done?

    Asked by tcr18 to Vera, Steve, Sam, Katie, Ed on 19 Jun 2011. This question was also asked by katie1998, chloeawesomexx, oli2.
    • Photo: Sam Tazzyman

      Sam Tazzyman answered on 17 Jun 2011:

      Well, I don’t do experiments any more, but I can tell you a disgusting story I remember from biology when I was in school:

      The teacher had a pair of pig’s lungs at the front of the classroom, and was going to dissect them to show us the insides. Before she did she wanted to show us how they worked. So she got a piece of rubber hose and put one end into the entrance to the lungs, and got a student to blow into the end end to inflate the lungs. Then a friend of mine brought his fist down on the lungs hard, causing stuff to come out of the lungs, shoot up the hose, and into the mouth of the poor student who had blown into the lungs. It was disgusting, but at the time I thought it was hilarious.

      Not really an experiment, but it was something I remember from science practical.

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      Steven Daly answered on 17 Jun 2011:

      I remember one time in college we were doing an experiment on the bio-diversity of the woodchips from somewhere on college. What we had to do was get a tray full of woodchips and chase insects around before catching them and classifying them. You can imagine the reaction a massive spider got when someone found that. The chasing was reversed then, the spider got out of the tray.

    • Photo: Vera Weisbecker

      Vera Weisbecker answered on 17 Jun 2011:

      I’m like Sam, I don’t usually do experiments but while we are with weird and disgusting things, here is a great story: While dissecting a really large dead whale (a humpback whale if I remember right – at least 10 m long!), a friend of mine was climbing on top of the carcass right above the belly and accidentally slipped…right into the rotting guts of the whale. He was wearing rubber pants which filled up with liquid which made it really hard for him to get out of this disgusting mess, and to top things up in his shock he took a big gulp of rotting gut contents. He went straight to hospital of course but in the end didn’t even get sick!

    • Photo: Ed Morrison

      Ed Morrison answered on 17 Jun 2011:

      Vera, that is stomach churning!

      My weirdest experiment is probably where I digitally added hair to pictures of men’s chests to see if it made them look sexier or scarier. It didn’t really do either.

    • Photo: Katie Marriott

      Katie Marriott answered on 19 Jun 2011:

      I don;t really do weird experiments. At school when I was doing my A-Levels we dissected a rabbit that my teached had shot. Apparently he then took it home and made rabbit stew….

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