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Im sure it’s required. I got a geology buddy and he said this is pretty normal for identification of rocks. So I bet its a required skill to tell spicy rocks from rocky rocks.

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Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Geology degree here - you identify some rocks by licking them. Licking most rocks will give you no information. But in a final, honestly, nobody would bat an eye if you licked all of them, just in case.

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- djsoren19@yiffit.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I have to know, how was sanitation handled? did you each student have an individual sample, or were you all licking a communal rock?
  
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  - Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Individual samples and UV lights, though often there was a rock where multiple people would lick it. People probably don’t get sick from that often.
    
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  - Glimpythegoblin@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Us geology students are bonded by blood. Once we all passed around a fragment of dinosaur bone and all stuck it to our tongue. Pre COVID mind you.
    
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lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Fact

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morbidcactus@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Was a thing when I took geo in first year, rock test (and the professor) was kinda a legend within engineering.

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- mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Heh that sounds like my buddies professor. All he said was your tongues always there and it’s a good instrument so why not use it. I just make fun of him licking rocks.
  
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Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
"Well yes it looks like a rock, but it tastes like a metal

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