This one's for the experimentalists

[kaberett]

I am increasingly convinced that the reason labs are so often located in the basement has nothing to do with technical reasons (weight of equipment; minimising vibrations; etc) and is instead 100% concerned with convincing you that you will never see the sky again.

(Lab is 15degC and falling. I have at least an hour to go. Group pub outing started twenty-five minutes ago. And it is still the case that I really love my job.)

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[cadenzamuse]

My second lab had windows, but they were tiny thin arrow-slits of things with a wire mesh set into the glass. They were designed to convince you that actually you are living in prison, and the sun is an illusion meant to torture you into thinking there could be a world outside the glass.

[kaberett]

This one has lots of windows between rooms, and *one* of the rooms has an external window that looks out into a dank little alleyway with tall buildings on either side and a flywalk directly above cutting out what light remains. However, there's no line of sight from where I do most of my work to said window...