based geologist reporting in

>>8755665
Significance of screw ups correlate with significance of work. Why else do you think governments let us work with dangerous shit, while they let you play with rocks.

>>8755672
yeah well...

>>8755665
Philosopher screws up:
Radical change of society, millions dead in civil war

Geologist screws up:
Fails to foresee Yellowstone eruption.

paleofag here, what up

>>8755728
my boyfriend is on that diet, how's it going avoiding gluten?

>>8755706
even if you could accurately predict the exact second the eruption would occur what can anyone do to prevent it?

>>8755754
Nothing, but getting the fuck out of there on time to not be annihilated sure would be a valuable use of that information.

>>8755754
start flooding the caldera
or
tunnel from the pacific ocean to the magma chamber
or
blame the devastation on North Korea in order to justify world war III

>>8755695
>People were nice and policed before modern ideologies and didn't kill each other all the time
aylmao

>>8755665
Graduating in May. We have two student 'labs' on campus for us but one we designated a student 'study area' because the most dangerous thing we work with is dirt. That way the department saves money on hazard costs and such. We were required to have one by the school, the most dangerous thing in there is our mass spectrometer. I guess it could really be dangerous if you ground your face into a powder, placed it into the mass spec, and irradiated it but the face powdering part would probably be worse than the irradiation.

Might also hurt if you pushed it off the table and it landed on you but damn thing takes 3-4 people to move so that's unlikely to happen by accident.

>>8755736
it's pretty easy
most rocks don't have any gluten in them
and I can eat all the rocks I want!

>>8755665
>Revolution in Biology: cure for billions
>Revolution in Physics: fundamentally different understanding of literally everything, open potential for engines that work on spooky action
>Revolution in Geology: "oh look a new rock"

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>>8755798
This guy talked like a quarter of a billion people to death

In fact he even accomplished the incredible feat of killing more people than religion

>>8755891
>there just wasn't the demographic to even kill that many people before
>"obviously it's le power of philosophy you guys"
>"war and pogroms didn't exist before that lmao"

>mathematicians screw up
>all science screw up

>>8755706
You mean "causes earthquakes in Oklahoma." Which is a legit thing caused by geologists not manning up and blowing the whistle when they did the surveys.

Seeing as physicists aren't making black holes (I could be wrong) and also considering the fact that creating viruses isn't really a big topic of research I don't know where I was going with this.

>>8755913
>creating viruses isn't a big topic of research
Boy is you retarded?

I should have specified, it's not a topic of biology it's virology. Which is technically a branch of medicine but I guess you could argue its microbiology.

>>8755891
t. Ted Cruz

>mechanical engineer screws up
>screws down to compensate

>>8755891
jealous

>engineer screws up
>retard-proof CAD program catches it and alerts you
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta

>>8755791
>blame the devastation on North Korea to justify world war III
This one is honestly the most feasible

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>>8755891
Yeah why fight back against the ruling class? Just be grateful for what you have and kiss your boss's ass for stealing from you.

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>>8756040
>there is someone on /sci/ with a good sense of humor

Leave this place before these autists turn you into a sperglord.

>deadly black hole
as if a black hole needs some adjective to emphasize its catastrophic potential, if anything "deadly" diminishes its might

>>8756040
>>8756075
samefag

>>8755665
More like:

>biologist screws up
There's an extra blue stain on this piece of paper

Popsci fags are the worst.

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>>8756082
Are you seriously claiming that I -- /sci/'s renowned kpop shitposter -- would've posted a message without a Korean idol in it?

Bitch please, you must be smoking rocks.

>>8756092
>renowned
delusional as well as deceptive

>>8756091
Are you retarded? There have been many disease outbreaks due to researchers fucking up or not being careful.

>>8755889
>Revolution in Geology: "oh look the Earth is billions of years old"

A modern day discovery would probably be focused on the interior of the Earth, since it is a big open question.

There are quite a bit of interesting open questions in geology, they are just not widely publicized.

>>8756111
Name 1

>>8756135
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_smallpox_outbreak_in_the_United_Kingdom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome (ctrl+F accident)
H1N1 China accident: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0011184

Off the top of my head. You can find more if you google it I'm sure.

>>8756091
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africanized_bee

>software engineer screws up
>code is patched and released as proprietary 2018 edition

>>8756081

black hole at center of the galaxy - not deadly
black hole at center of the earth - deadly

>>8755891
>>>/pol/
Back to the containment board with you

>>8756791
he's right tho, the post he quoted was beyond retarded
>marx killed people

>>8756795
So you're a Hitler apologist too then?

>>8755897
>mathematicians screw up
>this happens literally all the time
>someone catches the "mistake" decades or even centuries later
>frequently nothing of significance changes
>infrequently a physicist says, "no wonder the model didnt make any fucking sense"
>everything else continues on as normal

muh pure science

>>8756791
>>8756836
>>>/gulag/

>>8756791
Marx wasn't responsible for deaths anymore than Milton Friedman or Louis Blanc was for the deaths under the capitalist status quo
Take your Chinese Cartoon reaction images back to pol

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>physicist screws up
>invents hypothetical dark matter to compensate

>>8756769
>he's unaware of subversion in media by government and NGO actors who want a one-world government

they have created the illusion of peace, but we are actually in full, unrestricted ideological war, formerly known as psychological warfare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX3EZCVj2XA

>>8755754
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/italian-scientists-get/

semi related

>>8756868
Mind explaining why the ruling class would want communism? That wouldn't be in their interests.

>>8756872
Your logic is flawed. The ruling class always stay in power, it's only the puppet faces that change. In fact, the ruling class gets even more benefits from communism.

t. ex commie shithole

>>8756878
Communism means the means of production are in control of workers. Are you telling me the ruling class is sick of their cushy jobs of investors and instead want to work too? If so what's the problem?

PLEASE don't derail this thread with political bullshit, it's all right, nazism is good and we hate niggers, just let this thread continue, it has some potential

>>8756882
eh, you are free to destroy your country if that's what you want, just don't say you weren't warned

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>>8756885

>>8756868
Back to >>>/pol/

>>8756891
>wtf you're trying to abolish slavery? Well good luck with that just don't say I didn't warn you about people dying

>>8756911
>slavery
>bad

nigger detected

>>8756916
>freedom
>bad
cuck detected

>economist screws up
>doesn't care and proceeds to encourage shit policy decisions

>psychologist can't screw up, because he's not even wrong

>philosopher screws up
>doesn't notice and tells everyone disagreeing with them that what they are saying is not an argument

>>8756791
What is /leftypol/?

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>>8755798
>>8755891
>>8756068
>>8756769
>>8756791
>>8756795
>>8756836
>>8756851
>>8756853
>>8756872
>>8756878
>>8756882
>thread about rocklicking
>immediately turns into thread about communism
fuck sake, this /pol/ invasion has only gotten worse since the Russians and rednecks put a new orange star in the firmament.

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>>8755665

Your picture reminded me of this.

>>8756989
>philosopher screws up
>Nihilism

>>8756068
>Unironically falling for the employment = slavery meme

>>8756178
fucking rekt

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>being a hard rock geologist
>not going into a /comfy/ GIS role

>>8755891
And? Thats just fewer mouths to feed that would destroy the eniveonment. He did a service to humanity. Marx literally dindu nuffin wrong

>>8756068
DUDE WEED LMAO

DUDE EMPLOYMENT IS SLAVERY LMAO

DUDE SCHOOL IS PRISON LMAO

DUDE FRIENDS BEFORE FAMILY LMAO

I would go for a Ph.D. in geology, but I don't have the stones to do it

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>>8757809
enjoy your office job instead of getting paid to go hiking and look at actual rocks
man, the one thing we have going for us that none of the other sciences do (except maybe conservation biology/ecology) and you wanna just throw that away to be a cubicle dweller...

>>8755665
>>8755706
>Geologist screws up
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darvaza_gas_crater

>>8758653
man, was there anything the Soviets couldn't fuck up?

>>8758580
Actually a geochemist tho

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>>8755665

>>8758653
>Geologists set it on fire to prevent the spread of methane gas
>it has been burning continuously since then.
lmao

>>8758580
Thanks for reminding me again why I love being a Geology major.

By the way, any other geofags about to graduate in this thread?

>>8759751
I am. I got hired at a geotech firm in the winter. im just counting the days.....

>>8759751
paleofag M.S. student here. off to a PhD program in the fall.

>>8755672
fpbp

>>8756845
>Mathematician screws up
>The NSA has back doors in emergent cryptosystems before they're even published

>>8757523
Nihilism is logically sound.

>>8755665
Geologist screws up: tanks can't traverse Omaha Beach on D-Day.
Geologist screws up: fluids from a uranium mine enter an adjacent aquifer.
The list goes on, stop treating geology like a meme.

>mathematician screws up: wastebasket fills up
>philosopher screws up: new book is published

>>8756866
underrated

>>8761460
>Geologist screws up
>causes massive mine accident leading to the death of over 20 people and ending in the geologist committing suicide in shame
This board can ruin you if you let the echo chamber take hold of you. Geologists do some good work from supervising there mines to maintaining our fresh water reserves. Hate how /sci/ treats them like a meme here

>screw screws up
>structure collapses, killing trillions

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>>8761515
>Geologist screws up
>housing development buried under landslide, dozens dead

>Geologist screws up
>people with coal-burning furnaces and ovens in rural China suffer from chronic, pervasive, gruesome arsenic poisoning
>pic related