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xkcd #3243: Crystal Gazing

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'Beyond that lies a vale of fire through which my vision cannot penetrate' is the kind of fun thing geologists, heliophysicists, and early universe cosmologists have a lot of opportunities to say.

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[-] probable_possum@leminal.space 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I find thermo-luminiscence dating interesting too, from an antroprocentric point of view.

Imagine, you find human relics but can't use radio carbon dating, because it just tells you: yes it is older than 60k years but I won't tell you how much older, because we ran out of ¹⁴C a while ago. And then someone comes along and says: Hey let's heat those rocks we found close to the ancient fire place and measure the energy they emit instead. :D

Crystal-gazing is one of my favorite things to do. I can ponder my crystal for hours and commune with other practitioners, plumb the depth and breadth of human understanding, and look at cats. Lotta cats in the crystal network.

this post was submitted on 08 May 2026
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