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.

Not at all.

Yeah geology is fun. Lots of hands on stuff, class camping trips out to the field usually once a semester at least. Then there’s field camp which is a couple months in the wilderness mapping outcrops and studying local geology. I think it’s one of the most fun majors you can do, but I’m biased.

Yes. I have a geology degree. How else am I supposed to distinguish apatite from halite. I’ve licked many rocks. Mineralogy, petrology, and sedemenary Rocks and fossils all had finals that involved having 50 rocks in front of you to identify

That explains why easy jet asked if I wanted to move to an exit row. I thought I just got lucky.

Same with the jeep liberty. They hall have trailer hitches as a quick fix to protect the tank.

Sounds like a job for Tuvix

Oh yeah dude it’s nuts. I’m having to move out of town next year to even consider owning a house. Houses that were $170k are $400k now.

To be fair Gravette is a massive shit hole. There’s better areas around there.

Shh let them think it’s trash. We don’t need anyone else.

I just put mint on a 2015 dell shit laptop that barley functioned with windows. Now it’s a perfectly fine computer. I don’t do much besides use the internet but it struggled with that before.

Is it stored in direct sunlight? Blue absorbs more UV than other colors so it might be damaged more quickly by the sun than the other blocks.

9mm, safety, always off.

It is in the us. Imperial gallons are bigger than us gallons for some reason.

I’m an engineer but I work in imperial. Most machines run inches so I design in inches.

Lmao I’m sorry. It’s a breaking bad reference.

Quartz is a mineral. Jesus Marie!

I am guessing the reason it’s done has something to do with mining and trying to solve material density problems.

This is definitely part of it. Oil companies have labs that run samples all day every day to study the density and porosity of rocks to see how much oil or gas they could hold when they’re trying to find new areas to drill.

Most of what I’m familiar with is research labs at universities where they are studying it to simulate tiny earthquakes. It’s just pure research to learn more about how the earth functions as a system. All rocks are different and all situations are different so the more data you collect the more you can understand exactly what happened during an earthquake and why. Maybe it can lead to better earthquake prediction or it can let us use those earthquakes to know more about the structure of the earth.

Sort of. I work closely with geophysics in the rock mechanics world. I don’t personally know if any machines that create folds at large scale due to the heat and pressure required but rock deformation is a big thing they do. I’ve built a few machines that do this.

Small scale experiments at the temperatures and pressures required are done using diamond anvils at extreme pressure and sometimes with laser heating.

Larger scale is done with giant hydraulic presses called triaxes that use confining pressures up to the Gigapascal level.

Ive been all over the US but I still love Fayetteville