A skilled geologist recognizes the rocks they can safely lick. Licking every rock is just stupid. Imagine licking asbest.
this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2024
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I believe licking asbestos is fairly unproblematic. You just really shouldn’t breathe in asbestos dust.
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YOU DON'T GET TO TELL ME WHAT ROCKS I CAN'T LICK! YOU'RE NOT MY FATHER!
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Ha, unearthed.
The untold story: 1.) the grade was curved due to everyone's low numbers
2.) no one wanted to get near the rocks to identify them because there was one weird mofo walking on all fours around the displays, randomly snarling and licking each one
Homeslice identified a few more than everybody else and his grade shot to the moon.
3.) included were 2 previously unidentified specimens, which he also identified, somehow
Oh I know this one!
- profit !!!
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As someone who does LSD whenever she can (Which is... sadly not as often as you'd think)
This doesn't surprise me
I would love to try LSD, but I'm too worried about serotonin syndrome because of the medications I take.
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It comes around when it comes around. We don't pick.
I figured you'd only really be able to buy it in bulk on the dark web.
Or just go to a festival
Until very recently festivals were a major source of LSD distribution in the U.S.
Not so much regular attendees buying 10 strips but people who know each other meeting up at various festivals to exchange larger quantities of dry, crystal LSD. I don't know how much it's changed in the last decade or so, probably not that much.
True! You used to be able to track LSD in the US by looking at the grateful dead tour schedule, matter of fact lmao.
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“That’s how I got the nickname ‘the Doc Ellis of geology’”
I was going to comment that Doc Ellis would be proud.
Are you telling me they put them in front of actual rocks and let them lick them in finals?
Yes. I have a geology degree. How else am I supposed to distinguish apatite from halite. I've licked many rocks. Mineralogy, petrology, and sedemenary Rocks and fossils all had finals that involved having 50 rocks in front of you to identify
Your fucking around about the licking part right?
Geologists identify rocks in the field that way sometimes.
https://www.iflscience.com/why-do-geologists-lick-rocks-70107
Oh wow I've never expected that I'm used to university being full academia with no hands on on anything
Yeah geology is fun. Lots of hands on stuff, class camping trips out to the field usually once a semester at least. Then there's field camp which is a couple months in the wilderness mapping outcrops and studying local geology. I think it's one of the most fun majors you can do, but I'm biased.
Not hands. Tongue
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Im sure it’s required. I got a geology buddy and he said this is pretty normal for identification of rocks. So I bet its a required skill to tell spicy rocks from rocky rocks.
Geology degree here - you identify some rocks by licking them. Licking most rocks will give you no information. But in a final, honestly, nobody would bat an eye if you licked all of them, just in case.
I have to know, how was sanitation handled? did you each student have an individual sample, or were you all licking a communal rock?
Individual samples and UV lights, though often there was a rock where multiple people would lick it. People probably don't get sick from that often.
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"Well yes it looks like a rock, but it tastes like a metal
Was a thing when I took geo in first year, rock test (and the professor) was kinda a legend within engineering.
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