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Sorry, I am not getting it - I also know it is me. 😁

Yeah, the price goes up with complexity!

Hello, Mr. Gneiss guy

Me, when they ask me to translate something.

Licking rocks is a really good way to identify cinnabar and arsenopyrite. (Both are in my collection, and I will be licking neither).

I like some of the "guides" on that. "Fresh igneous rocks should not be licked as they're quite hot and can burn your tongue."

Shall I lick the green-glowy rock?

What are we looking for?

Herpetologists ask the same question about frogs and toads.

Idk about licking selenite

I'll be sending this to my sister in law.😂

Also works exactly the same for biologists.

Lol

Money talks 😭

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@mrgeop.bsky.social

Nerds are like that in general

For a grounded response, come with a weight to your argument.

I am not a geologist, but I am pretty sure that, opinion is wrong.

How do they know with out licking it?

I'd go with the amateur geology experts of the Quartzsite gem & rock show before that guy.

What probably works just as well is to tell them “Hey, look at this {some *cool* rock this definitely isn’t}!”—they’ll not be able to *not* tell you it ISN’t that rock, it’s a {correctly identified rock}.

Lol

reminds me of lock picking in orgrimmar

There's less of a context change, more of a scale. As the denomination increases so does the resolution, and thus how detailed my examination can be.

The fossil fuel industry’s been wrapping the Anthropocene in green house gases while pocketing several $5 bills per second

Twenties work better...

My geologist friend usually tastes the rock . . . Is this not standard practice?

My son-in-law is a geologist and he loves to identify rocks ! Of course he is a sweetheart!

Obsidian is so lovely Just imagine where it has come from, where it has been; who picked it up and -maybe- who cut and polished it

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“I’ll take my business elsewhere! You’re just going to put a stick it that I can buy at a pool store.” “Ok. Bye!”

Sounds like the Krasnov administration.

Yes. It is. I just told you it happened when I was in college. It was the profs way of seeing who had read the assignment and who hadn’t.

I bought a relative of mine a big set stone for a birthday once. It was a niece rock.

@gneiss.name

@emeraldtiger.bsky.social

The universal conversation lubricant. 🙄

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omg can confirm

@dykanite.bsky.social , I just have to tag you here

I just tell them to look at this meteorite I found. Gets 'em every time.

i am not specifying garnets for a measly 5 bucks

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"How much gold is in that claim?" Geographer: "Between 2 and 10 tonnes" Engineer: "6.2643 tonnes" Geologist: "How much do you want there to be?"

So it's like what people think programmers do but inverted

Nonsense. Offer them a nickel bag.

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It's always about the money with you science guys!!!

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Meet me out by the outcrop, I'm a little boulder there.

quartz is still cute and cool though so it's ok

That an ultra rare specimen of maga-lite rock. Secretly despise by geniune maga rocks for not being hardened to its core.

that's a jpeg

Wasn't th' query about what kind of rock, not about volume...?

It still helps to know the context.

It also works if you say you identify a rock incorrectly but with a lot of confidence. You'll be corrected very quickly

Yes

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checking a new explainxkcd page early can be funny

My old boss says you shouldn't even *keep* a sample of you don't know where it came from!

I was expecting the nerd snipe: Guy with rock: Look at this meteorite I found. Geologist: Well, actually that's a...

And I do have a BS in geology.

I have a master's degree....IN SCIENCE! If you get it, you get it.

How to metamorphosize a geologist...

And now we know about rock identification!

They can't be replaced with AI either because AI can't lick rocks

Quartzsite enters the chat & dominates with their amateur knowledge, hands down.

Happened to me, it ended up being quartz with iron deposits

Isn’t that Clark’s fourth law? The first three being “Old scientists are stuffy”, “Why are you asking me if something is impossible? I’m just as limited as you are.” And “dude, it’s all just magic. Ain’t it awesome?”

First frame is exactly, verbatim, how a geologist student responded to a question to identify a rock.

Can you tell me about this rock vs hey look at this cool rock

Yeah, they want to know where it's from, and then they invariably answer that it must have been transported 1500-2000 km during the last glacial period.

(snort)

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And this is why voting should give you a five dollar bill in thanks

Seems to be a pattern among diggers... 😂

Why did I think the right way involved them licking it. I've definitely mixed up two different professions but I don't know who is supposed to lick the rock 😂

The same goes for grammar, kids Wrap up grammar questions on bitcoin and let me know

Are you saying, "Money will give you the right answer?"🤬

If I remember his history right, it'll have to $7.

alt text, my man. alt text. (oh, & please also include the bonus title tag text)

They’re from the Dosh mines. It’s a Dosh Garnet.

truly the dragons of the sciences

youtu.be/ytWz0qVvBZ0?...

I, for one, welcome our new mole-people overlords.

If it's wrapped in a banknote it's probably crack

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if the bill was disguised as an accurate education edition he might do it

._. I mean, I understand the years of learning to be able to identify gems & minerals, but this is what keeps me from getting some of my stuff identified or confirmed. I can’t justify a hundred or more $ for that. I feel like I would do it for free for walk-ins, but I’d be a jeweler primarily 🤗

Seems legit

That is what is known as an “economic geologist”…🤠

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It's usually a sexual stone - just a fucking rock.

The response when you ask a DEA Agent:

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