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Decades of research destroyed after freezer fails at Swedish university (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 26 points 2 years ago (4 children)

There was, it failed.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

Why wasn't there a monitor for the monitor.

For reals though, don't they usually split samples up to prevent just such an occurrence?

[–] SaintWacko@midwest.social 3 points 2 years ago

Ah, I missed that. Well that sucks

[–] SheeEttin@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

I assume there was, as modern freezers have built-in alarms, but I don't see any mention in the article.

[–] RIPandTERROR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago

The front fell off