Comment on Do you have what it takes to become a geologist?

• Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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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  • djsoren19@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨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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    • GiveMemes@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They’re licking rocks and you’re worried about sanitation?!?

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      • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’d be more worried about sanitization if I’m licking a rock then if I’m not licking a rock, generally speaking.

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    • Glimpythegoblin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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    • Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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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• Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  "Well yes it looks like a rock, but it tastes like a metal

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• lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Fact

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• morbidcactus@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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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  • mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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