Great point, I was being flippant in my wordage.

And then Thermo’s strategy is
if Price > $500k
Then name = Rand(celestial lexicon)

If I’m gonna be exposed to ethanol that’s later converted to acetaldehyde, I’d prefer that to happen when I have a beer, not when some snake-oil gadget does it

I have to assume that 10000 and over is too ridiculous and the hundreds range feels too weak. The thousands range is the sweet spot for communicating high performance

We can only know if we pry off the covers and start trying

That being said, I recognize academic research has a bunch of messed up structural incentives that might push someone to buy an AtomSmasher4k over the RustGolem550

A lot of people buy stuff they don’t need, contributing to their frustration on price and unmet expectations. The most expensive toys are usually finicky.. imo buy a used ToF or QE and experiment thoughtfully. I’m not convinced marketing budgets are main issue, customer decisions are part of it.

Stimulating to consider how a for-profit model would work. Govt money fountain is boring.. but a futures trading scheme based on localized cooling of commodities production areas is beautifully evil.

This sort of formalizes my idea that big mass specs are just giant DVD players/jukeboxes that give you a random data movie depending on what you put as your filenames.

Sequencing-based multiomics

Spare me your alligator tears

Real lack of HPO3- heads on here

Want to know what was whited-out after the microwave. What was he microwaving????