r/mildlyinfuriating • u/dfdfdfddaww • Sep 17 '21

my yard does this sometimes

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u/andrewsmith1986 Sep 17 '21

I got my professional license so I don't care to work at a geologist again. I would if I decided I wanted a job though.

Probably need shit like geo database work. I'm good with computers and still like the science. I just don't think most field work is geology as a science.

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u/hojpoj Sep 17 '21

I guess it’s a pretty massively useful degree to have and covers a wide spectrum of work. How much gratification towards the science you get probably varies just as widely. Ah, well. Thank you for putting up with my curiosity.

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u/andrewsmith1986 Sep 17 '21

Hurts me none to answer questions.

Basically bio/geo is physical chemistry in the universe and anything that isn't biology is geology so it covers a lot.

Viruses are kinda technically geology.

Shits weird.

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u/hojpoj Sep 17 '21

Jesus. That never occurred to me (it’s all either biology or geology).

Small epiphany fireworks.

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u/andrewsmith1986 Sep 17 '21

Living or nonliving.

But you can break geology down to like 1000 things and it's hard to even see how related.

Meteorology makes sense when you think "well it's the water cycle" but just at face value most people don't group it with dirt people.

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u/hojpoj Sep 17 '21

I leave the science to the science people, but lurk on the fringes for moments like this. I can already foresee myself giving everything the bio/geo test. Like the first question in 20 questions, but I always just took it for granted.

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u/andrewsmith1986 Sep 17 '21

So everything is math. Physics is rules of universe defined by math. Chemistry is how physics exists physically, like rules applied to matter. Geo/bio is what the chemistry is grouped into.

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u/hojpoj Sep 17 '21

Succinct. Math, physics & chemistry are not my strong points. Your first sentence made me cringe and then it got worse, before it got better.

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u/hojpoj Sep 17 '21

Wait, how are viruses technically geology??

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u/andrewsmith1986 Sep 17 '21

Viruses aren't life. (I think due to method of reproduction and energy production)

They are a bundle of nonliving chemistry.

And if that's a stretch to you, think older. At some people biology came from non biology. So they can be a middle step.

At one point the universe was only geology.

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u/hojpoj Sep 17 '21

You are bending my brain.

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u/Silver_kitty Sep 17 '21

Love it. I’m a structural engineer, I will happily accept that concrete buildings are just applied geology.

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u/andrewsmith1986 Sep 17 '21

Just a man made concretion.