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• BastingChemina@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I don’t know how much of this story is a legend or not but this is how a scientific (Claude Lorius) for the idea of collecting data from the air bubbles trapped in the arctic ice. (This data is now the base of climate science)

  After a day of drilling on the arctic, as they were releasing in the evening they decided to use ice cubes from the ice they just drilled for their whisky. Drinking ice that is several hundred thousands years old is quite cool. While drinking the whisky the scientific noticed the air bubbles coming at the surface, then he got the idea that of he could analyze the air trapped in the ice he would get information about the atmosphere of the past.

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  • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    decided to use ice cubes from the ice they just drilled for their whisky

    And this is how you get a weird parasite that was frozen in ice for 100k years

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      cbc.ca/…/siberian-permafrost-roundworm-1.6923300

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    • Danitos@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Agents Mulder and Scully, FBI

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    • The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ooooor some freaky cool superhuman powers.

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    • angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Don’t threaten scientists with a good time.

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  • Shard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We have seemingly reliable accounts of archeologist/explorers cooking and sampling frozen mammoth meat they excavated.

    The meat was good enough to eat without them falling sick. Apparently it tasted like muddy meat and it had the texture of what you’d imagine bad elephant jerky would be like.

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Isn’t this how we got the moldy flesh as a delicatess trend?

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• ladicius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Scientists aren’t paid enough, that’s how they found out, right?

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  • NounsAndWords@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    From what I understand, you would probably have to pay geologists extra (and I guess archaeologists) to not lick stuff they dig out of the ground.

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• i_love_FFT@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This conversation would have been with normies.

  Other scientists would be like “What type of almond? Also we need peer review!”

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• TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Fun fact: the alternative sweetener, aspartame, was also discovered to be sweet when the discoverer licked his finger after lifting the piece of paper contaminated with the substance.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame?wprov=sfla1

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  • NikkiDimes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ah, nothing like doing some proper lab work, then putting your fingies in your mouth.

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• Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  So there’s cyanide in the soil?

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