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https://www.indy100.com/news/steller-s-sea-cow-russia-remains-discovered-extinct-species-kamchatsky-marina-shitova-8093411

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

Scientists aren't being paid enough, that's how they found out, right?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 14 hours ago

From what I understand, you would probably have to pay geologists extra (and I guess archaeologists) to not lick stuff they dig out of the ground.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

How many times have I told you, don't drink from the beakers.

[–] Tar_alcaran 27 points 14 hours ago

I'm a chemist, and I've been gifted beaker tea-glasses and water glasses. They have been made for drinking, have never even been close to a lab, and yet drinking from a beaker makes me actually physically nauseous. It's 100% psychosomatic, I know it's fine, but my instincts scream at me not to do this, and I actually become nauseous when I drink water from a beaker.

So it's pretty easy not to