BierSoggyBeard

@BierSoggyBeard@feddit.online

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you explain your grad school research to relatives over Thanksgiving Dinner? - Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I mixed a harmless salt in water (called a tracer, because it’s easy to detect), and injected it into the ground. Then i used a huge pneumatic drill with a special geophysics tool (measuring resistivity) to chase down where the salt was moving before it diluted too much to find.
  Its called a Tracer Test, and it’s pretty common for characterizing aquifers. What made my test unique was proving the usefulness of a geophysics tool to chase down the changes in geochemistry.

  Faster, more responsive than installing a network of monitoring wells ahead of time.

  I’ve now told you enough that i may have absolutely given my identity away.
  Grad level science is a much smaller world than you might think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you explain your grad school research to relatives over Thanksgiving Dinner? - Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, please give me the opportunity. I love boring the shit out of people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank goodness a will be provided! Man I love. Are always the best.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Did Charlie Kelly write this?

  ("So, doooo…")

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨magma is stored in the balls⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I have a small collection of figures like this that actually got published in geology papers. It’s a kind of fun game to get them past the reviewers, I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feynman rules⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair point

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feynman rules⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To clarify: Feynman could explain it, but can’t dumb it down enough for us mortals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pants too!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Malicious compliance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be safe this Halloween¡¡¡⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  cringes in Pittsburgh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨beans 🫘⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some days…reality just beats drugs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THEY'RE EVOLVING⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are wasps, buddy, and it’s going to get worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, good point, I don't love the crystals people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, geologists kinda love everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fundamentally unserious⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooh, deep-sea chantrelles!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rock Identification⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This can work. But:
  "Look at this hand sample I found at a prospective mineral mining source. What sort of resources might we find here? I have included a hefty research grant."