• fossilesque@mander.xyzOPM
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    4 months ago

    If you tap unknown object on your tooth, you can discern stone, pottery, clay, metal, plastic, etc etc, without ingesting possibly contaminated soils so close to your bloodstream.

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        4 months ago

        Why? Giving soil the ol’ hawk tua is way faster than digging out a water bottle from the pack.

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          4 months ago

          You’re a man (or woman?) of culture, I see. Precisely why I did it that way for years. I eventually got a camel back, and that worked pretty good - squirt a couple drops of water from the mouth piece on the soil and away you go.

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      Even the tooth tap is still no longer recommended. Both my undergrad and grad schools refused to teach/allow students to put anything in our mouths due to risks of contaminated soil.

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      This just brought me flash-backs of the absolute nut-bar I used to play DnD with that would tap dice on her teeth before rolling them “to check if they were real.”

      This is the closest thing to context I may ever have to that experience. I thought she was checking real vs imaginary, maybe she was checking if they were… ummm… real bones? wait. no.