Hi environmental, I’d like to report a spill.
Probably not a readily available solution, but pour liquid nitrogen over it, wait a bit, break the seal with something like a paint scrapper, and pick it up.
Place a vacuum bell jar over it and suck the whole thing up?
1- leave cup alone
2- wait for a coworker to pick it up and make a mess
3- ask them “what did you do?!”
4- let them clean up the mess.
1- leave cup alone
2- wait for a coworker to pick it up and make a mess
Steps one and two seem to be standard practice for most messes at my work.
Probably not a readily available solution, but pour liquid nitrogen over it, wait a bit, break the seal with something like a paint scrapper, and pick it up.
Place a vacuum bell jar over it and suck the whole thing up?
I’ll do this right after I run some tests on the Higgs boson collider at my office.
I said it wasn’t likely a readily available solution…
Now I want a collider. Probably need a corner office for that though.
That’s a good one. You might need a few extinguishers though.
Find a 4"x4" square of thin, stiff material. (0.003" 6V4L Titanium sheet would be my choice, but a piece of an aluminum oven liner may work in a pinch. Aluminum foil is thinner, and might work too, but it’s not very stiff.)
Wet it.
Slide it under the glass from the side.
Pick up the glass. (If done right, you don’t even need to hold onto the square – the pressure differential and surface tension will hold it in place)
Turn it over.
Remove square.
Pour it out.
Push down hard on cup.
Drill the cup bottom (which is facing up)
Insert straw and pump coffee out, emptying the coffee in a spare cup before disposing of it.
wrap a towel or two around the outside (not covering the top) then lift the cup while holding the towels firmly to the floor.
Sure, if you can drill in less than 5 seconds, drink away!