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Rocks Rock (mander.xyz)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Went to a stem focused college and they used to call geology classes 'Rocks for Jocks' because many of the athelets would end up in those classes.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes, this was me, hello (in an adjacent dept but we share the same grad student room). I used to climb, like 200 outdoor single and multi-pitch sends/year a lot. My mountaineering group was filled with geoscientists. I got injured though during some apt renovations and can't do little ledges anymore (maybe in the future, I still got hope). Now I meme about rocks. Rocks truly do rock.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Nice, hope you see some great cleavage in the field soon!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Crazy, I'm a geologist and that has not been my experience at all. Nerds as far as the eye can see in both undergrad and grad school.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Please go watch this if you want to really know what geology is all about: https://youtu.be/akQ2JpglmEo

And go watch all of this channel, she is great at explaining complicated stuff in a really easy to understand but still correct way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Huh. I thought the video was going to be The Geologists are Coming before I read the rest of your comment.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I suppose you are a physicist and not a grammarian.

I don’t mean to be that person, but we tried so hard and even added an extra character to still get it wrong.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

ummm ackshually geologists use physics and chemistry to describe/explain why that boulder got there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

But if you talk to them informally, they will excitedly show you pictures of cool rocks, which is neat.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Since the comments say that geologists are like this unofficially, they seem like cool people. I'm no geologist, but rocks are cool.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

That's a gneiss boulder.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Chemists just study electrons.