Lik the bone

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• edg@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You can also tell a claystone from a siltstone by rubbing it against your teeth! If it rubs smoothly without friction then it’s a claystone. If it feels abrasive then it’s a siltstone.

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  • jellyfishhunter@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Better don’t tell your dentist

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  • Plum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This was a lot of my degree. We licked everything. Still do.

    Mouthfeel is an incredible sense. Babies learn what the world is by pushing handfuls of it into their mouths. Texture, taste, angularity, porosity, density, degree of lithificaton… instantly.

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    • ghost_towels@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I would absolutely be on the lick things team. I use my mouth as a tool all the time.

      This post sounds incredibly weird.

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  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I find a stone
    But is it clay?
    Or is it silt?
    I cannot say.
    I’ll rub a bit
    Just on my tooth,
    If tooth falls out
    I’ll know the truth.

    Maybe you think
    My methods strange,
    Maybe you think
    They cause me pain.
    But I’ll keep rocks
    All in my fist:
    Not odd to me;
    I’m geologist.

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    • edg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Oh hell yes ヾ(⌐■_■)ノ♪

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      When I say silt you say silt

      silt

      …

      fuck

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  • buttmasterflex@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You can also differentiate between halite and sylvite using your tongue! Sylvite has a more tingly, “spicier” feeling and taste, whereas halite is simply salt.

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• definitely_AI@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  One of my favorite archaeology stories comes from a Reddit AMA waaay back over a decade ago, there was this girl who was on an archaeological expedition somewhere in the Middle East and they had unearthed a bunch of ancient honey jars. Honey, famously, never goes bad, and their professor said that if anyone wanted to try some, they could. Most didn’t, but she did. Months later when they were back in the states they had performed some tests on the honey and realized that these jars had originally contained stillborn fetuses, a now known practice, which had dissolved into the honey over the millennia. So she had eaten fetus honey.

  I know it sounds made up but she was a legit archaeologist and could back it up, though I’m hazy on the details.

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  • coaxil@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I kinda wanna try it now

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  • Test_Tickles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Holy shit, I didn’t know about that one… And holy shit, I wish I could un-know it now.

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• TomMasz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Always great to see scientists with a sense of humor.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Pretty sure that’s most of them

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    • MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      No there’s a lot of boring phds you never hear about that don’t. More on the hard engineers side especially.

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• Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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  • AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    …I feel quite hungry…

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• Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Not just archies, like another commentator points out, but Geo’s and pedologists too

  In soil science we sometimes put soil in our mouth to determine between silt and clay or silt and fine sand

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  • affenlehrer@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Isn’t that a health risk?

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    • marduk@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They ate a lot of dirt as kids, built up their immune system

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    • MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Not really, dirt is one of the least harmful non food items. In small amounts anyway

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    • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I suppose, but I also smell subsoil for the presence of hydrocarbons, soo…

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• AeonFelis@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Bone licking is not required for doing the science. They do it for pleasure.

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• AlexLost@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Did anyone else sing the poem? Good flow.

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• ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Conceivably you could do this with any similar skin type to a tongue so wet nipples and genitals would also stick to bone. Boners are the unlikely but accurate technical term for the application.

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  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So you want me to put dicks in my mouth? Alright, you have me convinced.

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    • Test_Tickles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      And that is how I found my exe’s account on Lemmy…

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• SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There’s no other way to test to see if it’s bone?

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  • Fusselwurm@feddit.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    bone is less heavy than stone, also you can see bone has different surface structure.

    Source: asked an archaeologist who thinks that although some people she knows do lik the bone, it’s not necessary.

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  • reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If you have two you can try to see if they’ll rattle

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    • slampisko@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Thank Mr Skeltal

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    • astutemural@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Rattle 'em, boys!

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