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What happens when a geologist goes to Rome!

This is the Pantheon. A Roman temple turned basilica, it is the largest unsupported concrete dome in the world! In true geologist style, I got distracted by the columns outside so got a really close look (I didn't have my magnifying lens on me).

They are made of granite, a rock which formed underground as molten rock slowly cooled and solidified.

This is why the mineral crystals are large and distinctive, with the pink crystals (orthoclase feldspar) much larger than the dark grey (quartz), white (plagioclase feldspar), black (biotite) and green-grey (hornblende)

#geology #igneous rock #archaeology #ancient rome #ancient history #tagamemnon #unexpectedgeology

arowitharrows

Shout-out to aromantic people whose lives are so fucking busy that they periodically forget what day of the week it is. today is Wednesday, June 5th. Happy Aromantic Visibility Day.

arowitharrows

Today is Thursday, June 5th. Happy Aromantic Visibility Day.

arowitharrows

It's June 5th again!

ahotknife

i really do fucking love the train. i sit it goes we arrive etc

beardedmrbean

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real: Nature.com

I'm a bit frightened for the time when someone less ethical than the person that did this decides to repeat the experiment but leave out the part where they come in later and announce that it was fake and people wind up diagnosed with the fake condition and all kinds of wacky hi jinks ensues.

chickenfarmersan

bluering8

listen to me, this is so so important: you've gotta get used to really giving it your 60% as a default. like don't half-ass it necessarily but try not to go over 70% or so of an ass. you'll feel better and live a happier more fulfilled life, and on the rare occasions where you do need to lock the fuck in you'll be able to pull off bullshit that the sad miserable wretches giving it their 100% can never dream off, because they're busy draining themselves dry and you have energy reserves to spare.

langernameohnebedeutung

Finally. Gay weather.

official-hessen

Wettervorhersage: Es wird schwul

cloudabserk

comforting head bonk to make up for my feeble human lifespan

#project hail mary

ratsoupee

field trip cancelled

Based off hit tumblr post:

#project hail mary

insomniac-arrest

man, it's so cool when female characters over-indulge and self-destruct and hurt themselves and others on purpose and have no way out but make it worse anyway and bite and scratch and betray everything they stand for nothing and have no one to blame but themselves.

assiraphales

I feel like grace was in such a rush to turn that ship around and hightail it back to rocky that he was indiscriminate about what data he sent back. just shoved it all into the beetle probes, just to realize ‘ok so 20% of that data is scientific breakthroughs to save the world……..80% me and rocky’s movie reviews. and I def forgot to delete the fifteen minute long dance off. hm.’

#project hail mary

gentlier

What is your eye color?

A 10, 17, 40, or 50

A 20, 30, or 60

C 20, 30, or 40

D 10, 30, 37, or 50

D 20, 34, 40, or 60

T 7, 10, 15, or 17

T 20, 30, 40, or 50

BOTH of my eyes are two different colors.

ONE of my eyes is two different colors.

I don’t have eyes.

Remaining time: 4 days 22 hours

#C20

pinkbowsandstripedsocks

edwardspoonhands

Honestly, Tvyek is pretty miraculous. It’s permeable to water vapor but not to water, it’s nearly impossible to tear, but can be easily cut. It’s cheap and made entirely without binding chemicals. In addition to being used for wristbands, it’s used to wrap construction sites to keep out water during construction, for tear-resistant envelopes at Fed-Ex, coveralls for mechanics, and my wallet, actually.

Fun tip, though it looks like paper, Tyvek is plastic, and cannot be recycled with paper.