It was a fictional centrifuge in a fictional world. 🙄

Presumably they actually just filmed a centrifuge, instead of faking it somehow.

Why buy a real one? It doesn't need to work. They spent $20 attaching a disk with holes to a motor.

Maybe. It was a lot more than that though. It had the shell and everything else. I suspect it'd be cheaper and easier to just buy or borrow a real one, even if it's not usable as lab equipment anymore. It's not like they're super uncommon.

Also, that still needs to be balanced to some degree if it's spinning reasonably quickly. It doesn't just suddenly not impart a lot of force because it's a "fake" centrifuge.

Yeah it was pretty good.

I think I preferred Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die though. But only just.

There are a few story-threads in the book that are either glossed over (or completely omitted) from the movie; and the movie (despite its runtime) still feels quite rushed.

If reading isn’t your thing, maybe see if you can’t get your hands on the audiobook and give that a crack on your commutes/lunch breaks/whenever.

Having both read the book (in anticipation of the movie), and having seen the film - I definitely enjoyed both at a solid 5/5, but can fully understand if it’s not for everyone.

My favorite scene in dragon ball z: abridged

"We shall speak the universal language: English"

Works in a hard comedy but in scifi like sg1 was always jarring.

It may be less about what the centrifuge can do and more about the culture surrounding centrifuges. It's my impression that people who are in a position to be using a centrifuge balance them out of habit. Even if they don't need to.

Not balancing them (in the event that it is a self balancing one) may be similar to computer science debates about tabs vs spaces. A difference that's more cultural than important.

I could be wrong, biology isn't my field. This is just my impression from having watched this debate play out several times.

If reading isn’t your thing,

It is, there's just quite a long queue of books waiting for my attention at the moment!
I'm interested in the film because of its use of practical effects vs. CGI, not so much the story. But it sounds like the story is worthwhile on its own.

My main point is that a research scientist like Grace should have loaded it correctly.

Grace would not have taken the risk.

Yes, thank you, I'm sick of everything being "realistic" only for it to be am excuse for grim-dark dystopia. We need me positive, uplifting messages and stories especially these days.

Anyway, bank to watching star trek and wishing humanity would in fact grow up.

Having put two quarter filled 1.5ml tubes in the same way, it wont matter in the least. It isn't an ultrcenrifuge with 15 or 50mls of heavy metal. It's biological fluid, not uranium.

But an experienced lab tech would automatically distribute balanced, just in case.