Comment on Do you have what it takes to become a geologist?
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 2 days agoGeology 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.
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?
GiveMemes@jlai.lu 2 days ago
They’re licking rocks and you’re worried about sanitation?!?
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.
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.
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.