NHacker Next
  • new
  • past
  • show
  • ask
  • show
  • jobs
  • submit
▲In an $80 Motel Room, a Discovery to Shed Light on the Origins of Life (nytimes.com)
m3kw9 4 minutes ago [-]
I thought they use built up gunk from years in the bathroom to discover new species, so they choose a cheap motel.
29 minutes ago [-]
22 minutes ago [-]
danso 45 minutes ago [-]
35 minutes ago [-]
sevenart 28 minutes ago [-]
non-paywall (perm): https://archive.ph/QpBF1
kstrauser 26 minutes ago [-]
Super cool, and I bet housekeeping loved tidying up after turning a motel room into a street biology lab. Honestly, I think I’d prefer to stay in a room previously used to cook meth.
_qua 24 minutes ago [-]
You think pond water is the worst thing an $80 motel room has seen?
kstrauser 19 minutes ago [-]
> Jugs of brackish water lined the walls. Buckets overflowed with hunks of marsh grass.

I don’t know, that goes a little above and beyond IMO. One typically doesn’t do science in a house-type setting, for many of the same reasons you don’t carpet a bathroom.

Brybry 3 minutes ago [-]
Probably poetic license. You can look at the pictures and see everything looks very clean.

The jugs are sealed. We can't see any "overflowing" buckets. Looking at some water samples under a microscope is not really that messy.

subscribed 7 minutes ago [-]
> for many of the same reasons you don’t carpet a bathroom

For some reason this is a commonplace in the UK.

Yeah....

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact
Rendered at 15:15:35 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.