26 Scientists Reveal Their Most Embarrassing Fieldwork Fails, And It’s Hilarious

Actually Agata explains the whole process in the book :) These illustrations are part of a book, that will be available in a few weeks (I'm the illustrator) Capture-de...f0-png.jpg

Also, there's the cool band from Australia called Sticky Fingers. And one of the great tour by Rolling Stones was Sticky Fingers. Sorry for my comment (but I'm so into music) :D

The train Sticky Fingers to me is always been a phrase used for a thief

Be honest, Angela, you're not really here for the research, are you? #notjudging

Purrrrfect!

literally, her a

Even though it was dirty, laugh any ways.

She answers your question in the book, actually :D

Pussies.

Must be White Lions 😁

AC/DC? Metal? *screeching*

You're right John ! (I'm the illustrator) I exagerated a little bit in the illustration, in the book I explain more in detail that the scientist discovered the mess only when she opened her suitcase at home :)

The illustration should be her at the baggage claim with security and a dripping suit case. Lesson learned: pressure-sensitive samples must be in your carry on.

The other cartoons are also not literally how it happened. We're not that dumb, John.

Imagine John L as an illusrator.

Imagine security when you're carrying that in your hand luggage

You're right! (i'm the illustrator). As I explain in the book I exagerated a little bit, the scientist discovered the mess after the flight, back home :)

I just signed up to this website specifically to say sorry about him. Jeez... you're a comic science artist not a law court sketcher.

Hey, John L., lighten up! It's a humorous illustration. I don't think any of the illustrations presented here are serious or completely accurate .... Ever heard of creative license.

I had the glass of my watch jump out of it's metal ring, 2 metres high, when gaining altitude on a plane. I put it back before landing, and on the ground it was as firmly attached as ever. Leave me to suspect it's not that simple or perfect.

i believe you are right, but... a picture of a bag in the cargo exploding like this, is nowhere nearly as funny as this image, lol <3

Man you're boring!

Cargo holds are pressurised. That's where live animals and pets are put. But planes are only pressurised to 75% so not properly secured packets and bottles can burst. I expect she just used corks without a fastener.

Passenger compartments are not pressurized to 1 bar. They are more like 0,75 bar. If it's enough to pop open a glass vial? I don't know.

Congratulations on your sens of humor, John

Hey bub, elax, its just a cartoon.

I bet you're fun at parties......

Well, as an aircraft maintenance engineer I can tell, that there are no non-pressurized compartments used for storage on pressurized passenger airplanes.

Just to lay the smackdown, unless the aircraft was a very very old or very small plane, the cargo hold IS in fact pressurized at the same pressure as the cabin. However, the pressure in the cabin at cruising altitude is approximately equal to the air pressure at an altitude of 10,000 ft (0.71bar / 70kPa vs the pressure of 1.03bar / 101.33kPa at sea level) so yeah, stuff pops.

Just enjoy the illustrations... we get it... you know everything about everything, but just stop being so critical. The joy of cartooning is in exaggerating certain things, and that's exactly what's happening here. If I draw a caricature of you and give you an impossibly large nose, it doesn't mean you have one, it's just for the fun of it.

Airliner cargo holds are pressurized the same as the passenger compartment. If they weren't, the floor would collapse.