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[–] [email protected] 99 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Each one of these costs more than the building itself

[–] Thrashy 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

So like $10 million dollars?

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

[–] Bye 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Except thermocyclers, literally available on aliexpress these days

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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.