Spitzspot, 17 days ago

MSU’s 142-year-old Beal Seed Experiment.

jimcullen, 16 days ago

@Spitzspot yeah I dunno why exactly the Pitch Drop experiment gets the label "longest continually-running experiment". Probably some kind of technicality about what exactly counts as "experiment" and "continually-running". There are some even older than Beal's listed on Wikipedia, depending on how you define it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_experiment

Zagorath, 17 days ago

Image taken from a screenshot of the pitch drop showing a poster that reads “Protest: Boeing out of UQ”

based UQ students

Nath, 17 days ago

It would be weird if university students weren’t protesting something.

Zagorath, 17 days ago

There were no interesting big protests when I was in uni. Huge protests the year before I started against some corruption in the student union rep elections, and obviously plenty of times people were angry at one thing or another, but nothing like the full on camping-out protests we’ve got going on right now.

jimcullen, 17 days ago

@brisbane watch the live stream at http://thetenthwatch.com/

vaionko, 17 days ago

Oh boy I’ve always wanted to see a livestream of a seemingly solid object!

Jokes aside, this experiment is really interesting

unionagainstdhmo, 14 days ago

I was watching it the other day and someone came and waved at the camera. Craziest thing I’ve ever seen on there, but I didn’t think about it for too long, if I did - I would miss the drop.

jimcullen, 13 days ago

@unionagainstdhmo 😂