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????