• Thrashy@lemmy.world
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      1 年前

      I do lab planning for a living and sometimes I like to play “How Many Houses Could This Instrument Buy?” with my coworkers. Usually it’s something along the lines of 0.1 to 1 houses, but every once in a while we do a process development lab for some biotech firm, and they want to spring for one of those Satorious automated bioreactors. Those things cost “a whole block’s worth of nice houses in a mid-major metro” money.

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        1 年前

        So like $10 million dollars?

        Nowadays this exercise does more to show how absurd housing prices are than it shows about instrument prices.

      • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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        You can get almost every piece of lab equipment on Ali. Wether or not you’ll actually get one, or if it does what you want is another matter though.