The longest running science experiment

[YJ02]

the pitch drop experiment

started in 1927 in a physics class in Australia when the professor was trying to show the nature of bitumen-pitch and the effect gravity has on it

it dropped last time in 2013 after a 84 year wait!
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25441-longest-experiment-sees-pitch-drop-after-84-year-wait/

watching it live apparently has a bit of a following

 

[Lord Ba'al]

I bet someone is collecting a steady paycheck running this experiment. Not able to be taking on other tasks because this experiment demands full-time attention.

 

[Tripler]

I bet someone is collecting a steady paycheck running this experiment. Not able to be taking on other tasks because this experiment demands full-time attention.

Good chance there in a wheel chair or using a walker to check how things are on a daily basis .

 

[Lord Ba'al]

Good chance there in a wheel chair or using a walker to check how things are on a daily basis .

It's probably a generational thing, where the job is passed from father to son.

 

[YJ02]

I bet someone is collecting a steady paycheck running this experiment. Not able to be taking on other tasks because this experiment demands full-time attention.

Good chance there in a wheel chair or using a walker to check how things are on a daily basis .

yeah, what a gig. where one's entire career could be described by 'the drop'-- if it happens in their time

"i did that job for 20 yrs, then one day, i went to the bathroom to take a drop of my own and when i got back, the damned thing had fallen"

BASTARD! you had ONE thing to do for your job and after 20 yrs experience, you still couldn't get it right!

 

[Overmind One]

Another example of pointless research resulting in nothing useful.

 

[YJ02]

Another example of pointless research resulting in nothing useful.

well, its australia and i am sure in their social system, the jobs provided by this research have been designated essential positions by someone