7 comments

  • ouked 41 minutes ago
  • m3kw9 17 minutes ago
    I thought they use built up gunk from years in the bathroom to discover new species, so they choose a cheap motel.
  • danso 57 minutes ago
  • sevenart 41 minutes ago
    non-paywall (perm): https://archive.ph/QpBF1
  • kstrauser 38 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 36 minutes ago
      You think pond water is the worst thing an $80 motel room has seen?
      • kstrauser 32 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 16 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 20 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....

          • stephbook 4 minutes ago
            I had a colleague who walked the tiled floor in front of pissoirs in socks..