Guess I'll just die
from fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz on 20 Aug 18:02
https://mander.xyz/post/36359290

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ininewcrow@lemmy.ca on 20 Aug 18:33 next collapse

… before exploring a new area of land … they download a map of the area first … otherwise they could get lost

moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 20 Aug 21:02 collapse

sounds more like cartography students to me

BlueLineBae@midwest.social on 20 Aug 18:53 next collapse

Maybe it depends on the students, but based on the ones I’ve met, this couldn’t be farther from the truth. My family took a trip rafting in the Grand Canyon for 6 days in 130 degree heat. It was highly taxing on the body and you needed to be very in tune with your body during the trip to assure you didn’t get heat sickness. There were 2 people on the raft with my family serving as tour guides and experts. One was an older and very seasoned expert who knew the canyon and its history like it was their very soul. The other was a young geology student who was training to do the same. During this trip, all of us experienced the same physical challenges, but our guides were also tasked with keeping us safe and informed, setting up camp, and navigating any additional challenges that the rest of us wouldn’t be knowledgeable in. Oh and steering the fucking raft through some extremely dangerous areas that even seasoned rafters fuck up sometimes. It was a wild trip, but I’ve got a lot of props for the geologist and student that served as our guides.

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social on 20 Aug 21:57 next collapse

Maybe they had good signals

PaulSmackage@hexbear.net on 20 Aug 22:37 collapse

I just like asking them what rocks are flavoured what

ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net on 20 Aug 22:58 next collapse

My favorite is green salt … nice yummy uranium

PaulSmackage@hexbear.net on 21 Aug 01:03 collapse

It’ll give you a healthy glow, i can tell you that much.

Hestia@hexbear.net on 20 Aug 22:59 collapse

rock salt is salt flavored

PaulSmackage@hexbear.net on 21 Aug 01:03 collapse

I don’t believe you

chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 20 Aug 22:19 next collapse

There’s a podcast called Citation Needed (not the more popular Citations Needed) that is a comedy podcast reading Wikipedia and other short articles on events and subjects.

While is has no distinct theme, each of the 5 hosts has something they generally pick more. One picks disasters in exploration pretty often, and just listening to that comedy podcast that doesn’t really deep dive still shows how much this post ignores how many of those 1920s people straight up died doing their work.

philpo@feddit.org on 20 Aug 22:53 collapse

I just leave that here:

youtu.be/8EmRCJET5T4