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Fun fact: the guys at our college’s geology department prop out the doors with their samples. I totally understand why but as someone whose work with samples is necessarily super delicate and sterile it fucks me up so bad

lol idk if you watch nautilus live at all but watching them process bio & geo samples side by side evokes exactly this Thing (the descriptions are gold too… “here are the 30 steps we use to preserve bio samples, and as for rocks, well, we let them dry, bag them, & put them in the Rock Box)

Good to know there’s enough Biologist Salt™ to go around

OK I’M SORRY I HAVE TO STEP IN HERE. becoming a geology major is a fucking ride. geo departments are notorious for all getting sick at the same time because we lick each other’s samples. like… literally as a teaching tool they just pass the same sample around the room for everyone to lick. and what’s worse, if this is an unknown sample, sometimes people are pouring acid on it! yeah! you lick samples that literally have hydrochloric acid on them. everyone does this. you’re expected to eat in lab. yes, that’s a $20k microscope next to a box of chinese. nbd.

“meanwhile geologists are hitting their samples with hammers” i know of at least a dozen people who have been sent to the hospital because of rock fragments hitting them in Bad Places. my own dad (also geologist) drove a hammer through his shin and had to hike the twenty miles out. there’s no safety. it’s literally like sink or swim. i know of three people who have died on geology field trips. we were out last week and a boy cut most of his thumb off. nbd, can someone drive daniel to the hospital? cool.

geology is insane. 

JESUS