• Question: has anyone die whilst doing your experiments

    Asked by 07gillardjen to David, Helen, Ian, rhysphillips, Sarah on 15 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Ian van der Linde

      Ian van der Linde answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      No – I try to keep them alive so that they’ll come back again in the future! Getting volunteers to do experiments isn’t easy, so I wouldn’t want to lose them!

    • Photo: David Corne

      David Corne answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      See this site:
      http://www.worldometers.info/
      It gives approximate real-time numbers for things like births and deaths across the whole planet, and various other things. Looking at the rate of deaths, I would guess that around 2500 people die during a typical one of my experiments. Of course, none of these is actually CAUSED by my experiment!!

    • Photo: Helen Fletcher

      Helen Fletcher answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      Not in our lab, but I have heard of lab workers killed while using liquid nitrogen. We use it to freeze down blood cells and we have to wear oxygen monitors when we go into the liquid nitrogen room!

    • Photo: Rhys Phillips

      Rhys Phillips answered on 15 Jun 2011:

      Nope – we don’t let people go in the planes when we do the lightning tests!

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