I tried to get out of my bed today, but I am a fossil.
Centrist, progressive, radical optimist. Geophysicist, R&D, Planetary Scientist and general nerd in Winnipeg, Canada.
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If the Jays win, Trump will bomb Toronto, the capital of Canada. We should probably just lose in the playoffs.
I saw this documentary about it – Canadian Bacon.
Ah, fuck it. We don’t need Toronto. Go Jays!
Remove LEGO from this headline and it’s super mundane.
$1400 is what – a single Millennium Falcon set?
This has to be one of the best conceived villains ever.
I just love the idea of a fragment of a personality slowly going insane in another person’s head.
Carrot cake is hard to light.
Needs to be combined with ASCII art renderer.
3·6 days agoBeat me to it. More info here, including diagrams of all the changes. If you’re curious about rationale and how each one will work:
Never even heard of it. The cover art is ethereal though. How does the game play?
13, probably (rescue, hard to know for sure, but we’ve had her for like 8)
It’s statistically improbable, but possible Almost all minerals you’ll find in the wild are bog standard ones.
Tangent about slate, shale, and clay. One of the diagnostic properties is “grain size”. To determine if soil is clay or silt sized particles, one of the common tests is: rub it on a tooth – if it feels smooth, the particles are clay sized. Slate and shale are clay minerals, and will feel smooth on a tooth if rubbed in the direction of the grain. If it doesn’t feel smooth, then it’s a siltstone or similar.
Generally speaking, you usually have an idea of what it is before you lick it.
But any minerals mercury would be usually be a no go. Here’s a fun one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calomel since we’re talking about chlorides ;)
10·12 days agoHaving to enter/exit through the chimney seems a choice. Is this their primary exit?
This is actually very funny somehow
No. Potassium chloride is more bitter.
Source: am geoscientist. Licking rocks is one of our university trained skills. I kid not.
Tangent: we printed these t-shirts in undergrad that said “You know you’re a geologist when you can say with a straight face: have you tried licking it?”
Dirty hoe