• mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org
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    20 days ago

    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.

    • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.world
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      20 days ago

      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.

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        20 days ago

        I have to know, how was sanitation handled? did you each student have an individual sample, or were you all licking a communal rock?

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          20 days ago

          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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          19 days ago

          Us geology students are bonded by blood. Once we all passed around a fragment of dinosaur bone and all stuck it to our tongue. Pre COVID mind you.

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      20 days ago

      Was a thing when I took geo in first year, rock test (and the professor) was kinda a legend within engineering.

      • mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org
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        19 days ago

        Heh that sounds like my buddies professor. All he said was your tongues always there and it’s a good instrument so why not use it. I just make fun of him licking rocks.