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[teenytinytina]

yea, so we're going to start this up again. unfortunately, i've returned to being unexperienced, and you're going to get a more or less play-by-play of today

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[thailyn]

Wouldn't the sulfur give off its trademark smell and be easier to identify? Or does its gaseous form not smell? In either case, it sounds dangerous, inhaling sulfur. I don't get why people don't just leave whenever there's a fire alarm, especially in labs... silly professors....

then yay for drugs

And upon reading that I thought your story would take a turn for the worst....

[teenytinytina]

leak was on the third floor, we were on the first (and i think the TAs when they went to investigate, only sniffed the first and second floors).

and people don't like leaving because if they aren't at a stopping point, they can ruin weeks of data/work.

[thailyn]

Ah, yeah, the weeks of data is a good point, but for your case, which was just for a lab class, I imagine, there wouldn't be much data loss. And, you then have the eternal question: what's more important, your life or your data? Well, not that eternal, more rhetorical.

I think the best solution is to just invent more accurate / detailed alarms, so people know the exact risks of not leaving, and would believe an alarm meant danger (perhaps those years of test fire alarms has conditioned us to not take them seriously?).