Gneiss
Most sane karst geologist
On a more “licking” note than an “LSD” note - in geology 101, had a group exam where we had to identify mineral samples. Group spent 50% of the total time waffling on deciding how to identify the last two samples - salt and quartz. We knew one was one, and the other the other. Finally got tired of arguments about clarity or cleavage or whatever other nonsense we had in that elective. I had places to be. Licked one. Then the other. Second one was salt. Probably wasn’t the first college student to lick those samples either.
Wouldn’t a scratch test have worked just as well? Quartz is extremely hard, halite is relatively soft. Scratch one against the other, and whichever one is damaged is salt.
Rub it against your phone screen and you’ll find out pretty quick
It scratches at a level salt, with deeper grooves at a level quarts
At a 2.5 hardness, hallite shouldn’t be scratching anything with a hardness of ~6?
not with that attitude
reference to jerryrig and his catch phrase “It scratches at a level six, with deeper grooves at level seven” when testing the ‘new and improved’ glass on phones
Licensed Professional Geologist here, and licking is a totally valid method for distinguishing between mineral hand samples that have very similar properties otherwise. For instance, halite (NaCl, aka table salt) and sylvite (KCl) are isomorphpus, which means they have the exact same crystal structure and are very difficult to distinguish using traditional methods. Halite tastes like salt, but sylvite makes your tongue tingle when licked. Our mineralogy professor told is it’s the only reliable way to differentiate the two without actial chemistry analysis.
Pick rocks and lick rocks. The way of the hound.
I like KCl, it makes my food taste better when I replace 1/3 to 1/2 of the NaCl in a recipe with KCl (in addition to adding the remaining amount of NaCl)
What does kcl taste like
A much stronger, almost metallic, bitey salt when tasted alone
On food or mixed with NaCl the undesirable taste/feel is not noticed and it tastes like a tastier salt. Flavour enhanced
It’s at the grocery often sold under brand name NuSalt in the USA.
Licking is a chemical analysis, albeit a crude one
In some ways it’s no more crude than looking at it, right?
You PIERCE my privacy with your gaze. I feel violated!
You ASSAULT me with your tongue. I feel violated!
Yep, both senses seem equally crude 😄
I wouldn’t call a chemical touch sensor optimized by eons of evolution to differentiate molecules from one another crude.
Couldn’t you use a Geiger counter to detect the KCl sample? It should be detectably more radioactive than the NaCl sample
Couldn’t you just scratch one with your keys?
Between halite and quartz, absolutely. Halite and sylvite have the Moh’s hardness of 2, so your keys would scratch both.
Hell, I had a geology lab where we were explicitly told we’d have to identify minerals by taste.
Unfortunately one of the other criteria was testing how a mineral reacted to acid… Which was listed higher on the worksheet…
Didn’t taste that bad, as far as acids go.
Nope, geologists are commonly associated with licking rocks, and basically for the reason you’ve shared.
I suspect that’s also the reason why we categorize oil crude whether it is sweet or sour.
One dissolves in water, the other doesn’t.
But licking also works.Butt licking also works.
The best part was their final was a power point presentation.
The striking thing for me here is the final examination for a geology course is to identify rocks. Isn’t that like the most basic bit of geology?
What else do you do in geology?
Study how they’re formed. It’s like studying how to bake cakes vs tasting one of the final products
Yum, where do I sign up?
Maybe the final exam for geology 101?
geo kisser
There’s a pretty good fantasy detective game called Dragon Detective, where you use all 5 senses on most parts of a crime scene. Use of “Taste” is originally treated as a joke by the coleads, but since the main character is immune to most poison and has a fine sense of taste, he really does lick everything for details.
I have a friend who had ONE geology class in university, majored in physical geography. But he is known as the rocks guy, since nobody knows what his major actually is.
I was on an island holiday recently, where the most prominent rock formation is simply called “the rock”. I sent him one of these perspective trick photos where it locks like I’m licking ‘the rock’ with the message: “me, a real geologist”.
He was mildly amused.man, how do you even get LSD these days
You gotta go to the source: the CIA.
If you find out, hook me up
Darkweb marketplaces
shit now we got cops on lemmy
this may be my most heavily engaged comment on threadiverse. 😅
- Install Tails on a USB flash drive
- Find /d/DarknetMarketsNoobs on Dread
- Follow the advice there and enjoy
Go to a music festival. The United States is flooded with LSD right now.
No, it is most definitely not. It’s flooded with gel tabs of cheap synthetics.
There is a laundry list of odorless tasteless microgram dose psychedelics that are extremely comparable to LSD and indistinguishable except to an extremely advanced psychonaut.
If you go to a festival and take drugs and think that it’s real LSD, that’s laughable ignorance. Statistically, it’s almost impossible to find LSD.
Its real. This isn’t 2009-2014 anymore. People have test kits at festivals too that will test what you’ve acquired for free.
I’ve been taking psychedelics for almost 20 years now.
I’m unsure where your statistics is coming from.
The niche bass music scene is flooded with real dose.
We had drug prevention class (as a project week) in high school. One street worker guy just informed us, what is commonly used and what these drugs do, their dangers and safety precautions, if we decide to take them anyways. That was way better, and more effective, than the “drugs are bad”-speech the cop gave the other day.
LSD was the only one, that sounded somewhat intriguing to me. Never tried it, because I’m worried about bad trips and possible permanent damage. What is your take on that?
I’d recommend doing research before taking psychedelics. Erowid is still a great source.
The common phrase is " set and setting " and its true. If you’re in a comfortable and familiar surrounding and your headspace is good, you will probably have a decent trip. Many times there will be a difficult period during the trip and that is part of the experience.
I’d also recommend mushrooms " psilocybin" as that is one of my favorites.
Also LSD last a long time, I love it but plan accordingly.
Thanks for the ressource.
Your perspective kind of reaffirms what I’ve heard about drug use in general from a plant-pharmacologist I once met on field trip in Central Asia. She pointed out, that drugs used to be tied into cultural practices and rituals, that also kept them in a specific setting and for specific purposes and attributed a lot of the problems to the mindless consumption we have today.
You also reaffirmed, that I’m better off abstaining from psychedelics, since I’m the antithesis to having a “good headspace”. And I’d be pretty worried about what they could set loose.
Basshead?
Most certainly. I love to dance and listen to bass music of all genres.
I couldn’t make infrasound the past two years but that is normally what I look forward to twice a year.
I go to Shambhala and they do free drug testing. Every LSD I get, I get it tested. The Ehrlich reagent test turns purple for indoline structures and it’s so much easier to get LSD than the other LSD prodrugs that would cause this to be purple, like 1P-LSD, 1V-LSD, or 1B-LSD. Research from both DanceSafe and The Loop show that actual and pure LSD dominates over synthetics at music fests. I’d love to see your sources because I’m intrigued.
Is LSD not considered a synthetic?
partially
By that standard pretty much everything is “partially” natural. You’re almost always going to have at least one starting material that was derived from a plant or other natural product.
Bring that up with chemistry, it’s their term.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semisynthesis
Lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly known as LSD (from German Lysergsäurediethylamid) and by the nicknames acid and Lucy, is a semisynthetic psychedelic drug derived from ergot, known for its potent psychological effects.
A friend of mine kept telling me you couldn’t find lsd anymore so I looked it up. There was a mass testing done a few years back that wanted to see what people were really buying when they bought lsd and it turned out it was almost all pure lsd and within expected dose.
I get it though. Back in undergrad I was really struggling with undergrad quantum 1 until I tried doing homework during a psilocybin trip. It wasn’t like an “aha I understand everything perfectly now” kind of experience, but I went from considering dropping the class to having a manageably difficult time with it after I made whatever brain pathways I did thinking about the subject while tripping
I think it’s mostly that you get super into what you’re looking at and find it ridiculously fascinating.
Really wanting to learn is the best way to git gud.
My geology teacher encouraged us to taste the rocks. 🤷
Quarry. Better tasting because it’s mined.
Oh. My. God. You can’t go anywhere without the raw rocks people spreading their bullshit. There’s a reason we started pasteurizing rocks and I can’t believe we’re still debating it 180 years later. Fucking right wing media!
I’m pretty sure that’s just how scientists did things up until like 1952.
highest grade in 3 years
Meaning accidentally got a few right?
