What is the most boring thing you have found out recently

Question: What is the most boring thing you have found out recently
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Asked by anon-284279 on 5 Mar 2021.
- Karen Burstow answered on 5 Mar 2021:
  
  I recently got an update from Google Maps about all the different places I’ve been in the last month – which because of Covid, was basically nowhere. My most visited place was my work! But I am actually really grateful that I’ve been able to go into the lab during lockdown, to get me out the house!
- Alice Cardall answered on 5 Mar 2021:
  
  I wouldn’t say I’ve found out anything boring recently, but what can be frustrating is when an experiment doesn’t work and you don’t know why. I find with science it can be very focussed on positive results, and not as many people are interested with why something didn’t work, but actually it’s important to understand this and why it happened, firstly, so you don’t repeat the same mistake again, and secondly, so you and other scientists don’t spend time doing something that won’t work
- Chris Waller answered on 5 Mar 2021: last edited 5 Mar 2021 6:17 pm
  
  One of the more boring aspects of my job is fixing equipment when it isn’t working properly. It can be annoying but it needs to be done. Sometimes the reason why is fairly interesting, but most of the time it’s fairly mundane – for example earlier this week I had to fix an instrument that wasn’t collecting data. After spending a while looking at it I realised that the reason was because there was a loose pipe so my samples were leaking onto the floor instead of going into the machine 🙁 But everytime something like that happens I learn from it and I make a note on my list of things to check so I can fix things faster next time!
- Claire Price answered on 6 Mar 2021:
  
  I don’t really know. I suppose what I have found out has nothing to do with science, but it is really boring having to fill out forms to do science! Sometimes to do certain experiments you need to get a licence (for safety reasons) and these can be very long and boooooooooooooooooooooooring!
- Felicity Hunter answered on 8 Mar 2021:
  
  I found out today that a “jiffy” is actually a proper time unit for 1/60th of a second. That is a pretty boring fact to bore your friends with. If you ever hear someone say “i’ll see you in a jiffy” you better make sure they turn up in 1/60th of a second!
- Jess Buddle answered on 8 Mar 2021:
  
  Not necessarily boring, as science is really exciting, but science doesn’t go right most of the time (and that is completely OK!) – so sometimes you do a big experiment and find out nothing at all because it doesn’t work which can be annoying.
- Megan Metcalfe answered on 12 Mar 2021:
  
  In my job I look at geophysical data looking at the seabed. It’s cool because I get to find things like shipwrecks, but I’ve also found out that there are a lot of tyres. Lots and lots of tyres. So, my most boring discovery is how many tyres there are under the water…

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