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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mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks agoIm 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.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
djsoren19@yiffit.net 4 weeks 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?
GiveMemes@jlai.lu 4 weeks ago
They’re licking rocks and you’re worried about sanitation?!?
Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
I’d be more worried about sanitization if I’m licking a rock then if I’m not licking a rock, generally speaking.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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.
Glimpythegoblin@lemm.ee 4 weeks 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.
lowleveldata@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Fact
morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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.
Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
"Well yes it looks like a rock, but it tastes like a metal