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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] 40 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I don't know how much of this story is a legend or not but this is how a scientific (Claude Lorius) for the idea of collecting data from the air bubbles trapped in the arctic ice. (This data is now the base of climate science)

After a day of drilling on the arctic, as they were releasing in the evening they decided to use ice cubes from the ice they just drilled for their whisky. Drinking ice that is several hundred thousands years old is quite cool. While drinking the whisky the scientific noticed the air bubbles coming at the surface, then he got the idea that of he could analyze the air trapped in the ice he would get information about the atmosphere of the past.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago

We have seemingly reliable accounts of archeologist/explorers cooking and sampling frozen mammoth meat they excavated.

The meat was good enough to eat without them falling sick. Apparently it tasted like muddy meat and it had the texture of what you'd imagine bad elephant jerky would be like.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 hours ago

decided to use ice cubes from the ice they just drilled for their whisky

And this is how you get a weird parasite that was frozen in ice for 100k years

[–] [email protected] 44 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

A lot of scientists sample the wares. It had to be explicitly banned at my workplace. "Organoleptic testing" was how they put it. There were several incidents, but the one with polyols was extra. (Sugar-free gummi bears will give you the gist of it. Link below) They just get bored and stupid. They'll check the LD50 (if known), then go to town if it's tasty enough.

https://www.reddit.com/r/amazonreviews/comments/11otwx0/the_horror_that_is_haribo_sugarfree_gummi_bears/

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Oh boy that was a good read

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Classic. A little googling will turn up gold for sugar free gummi effects

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The reviews on amazon were seriously the funniest shit I've ever read in my life. I laughed so much the first time I was in pain

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Those reviews made me feel better when it eventually happened to me personally. It was a sugar-free nutella-like spread. I should have known better. At least the time on the toilet passed faster because I remembered the gummy bear reviews, they made for an appropriate reading

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

What Im learning from this is that I should never try anything that is sugar free

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

Some artificial sweeteners are also effective laxatives. If you've seen eclipse mints, they use it. 1 tin is fine, 2 is toilet time.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 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] 15 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Tar_alcaran 24 points 9 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