Ok boomer
You do know you can watch movies older than yourself, right?
Reminder that Jan Zalasiewicz received an Ig Nobel price in 2023 “for explaining why many scientists like to lick rocks.”
Asbestos can be used by kids as chewing gum:
Wittenoom’s roads were paved with asbestos tailings from the nearby mines and workers went home covered in a layer of deadly dust.
Children played in the lethal mineral, and some even stuffed it in their mouths as a substitute for chewing gum.
Bro never smoked crack.
I mean, ice is technically a mineral so, that’s at least two tasty rocks
I’m not a geologist so my explanation might not be 100% correct, but a mineral is a bunch of molecules set up in a crystalline pattern, so ice is a mineral form of water. Or, water is the lava of ice, ice being technically a rock.
That part tracks, nice!
Is it tasty, though?
Been there done that. In ancient China, there was a psychoactive drug made out of five kinds of minerals.
Yummy
Lead and antimony are both sweet
I know antimoney is sweet. That’s why I’m broke.
Uranium is … spicy.
For reference:
A good start but Na and Cl are both individually as you really shouldn’t, put them together and you have tasty rocks.
On the other hand, Hg is actually safe to lick. It’s a lot more noble than, for example, silver, so acids and bases won’t attack it. Lots of people even have it stored in their teeth, permanently.
Aren’t the teeth more of a risk to waterways during dental work than the owner of the teeth?
Das Lecken der elementaren Salzbildner ist strengstens verboten.
This isn’t ich_iel. Go back to the shadows from whence you came.
That’s not very nice. Translations in 2025 are trivial.
The guy probably mistook them for a Balrog of Morgoth, easy mistake to make.
wir sprechen viele idioma danke
Hey, es gefällt mir hier und ich drücke meine Rosette in dein Gesicht 🥰
If we’re talking about licking it in it’s solid state, I don’t think solid hydrogen or helium would be in a lickable state.
ESPECIALLY solid helium, which needs to be at a temperature LESS than 3 Kelvin AND at 26 times atmospheric pressure. Not “OR”, AND
You don’t need to sell it to me, I wanted to try before.
“Go for it you seductive tortoise; find that Helium rock and lick it.” is a strange sentence I never wanted to think of, but here we are
Must be a reason something’s yellow and not red, so should be fine
Pure mercury is pretty safe, actually.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=DNpdMz0Cfv0&t=124To lick?
Also I’ve heard that lead is sweet, but will never lick the solder even though thinking about it is making me really wonder.
If you’re an adult in no danger of pregnancy and not breastfeeding, licking the solder wire once won’t hurt you noticeably.
But if you’re worried that you’ll like the taste and might seek it out again, that’s a possibility.
while this is most likely true, you don’t really know what other sources of lead you come into contact with and it is probably a bad idea to add to the list deliberately
noticeably
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Careful, first you think you will just try 1 spool and the next think you know you are voting for Trump.
I’m horsing the 2 spools of 60/40 I bought at RadioShack. RoHS be damned.
MSG seems to be the even better rock
Baking soda, baking powder, and cream of tartar are minerals used for baking. Not very tasty on their own though.
While it may or may not meet your contextual definition of ‘rock’,… lead tastes somewhat sweet, apparently.
The Romans boiled grape juice in lead pots to produce a kind of syrup that was used to sweeten wine.
Lead is uh, a neurotoxin and likely carcinogen, so probably don’t lick the sweet rocks too much.
According to:
https://galleries.com/minerals/property/taste.htm
… apparently borax tastes sweet and… alkaline?
Chalcantite is described as ‘sweet metalic and slightly poisonous.’
Melanterite is apparently ‘sweet, astringent and metallic.’
Lead doesn’t taste sweet, but lead(II) acetate does: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead(II)_acetate.
Alkaline is usually soapy in taste btw
And on this day, a geologist was born
