I mixed a harmless salt in water (called a tracer, because it’s easy to detect), and injected it into the ground. Then i used a huge pneumatic drill with a special geophysics tool (measuring resistivity) to chase down where the salt was moving before it diluted too much to find. Its called a Tracer Test, and it’s pretty common for characterizing aquifers. What made my test unique was proving the usefulness of a geophysics tool to chase down the changes in geochemistry.

Faster, more responsive than installing a network of monitoring wells ahead of time.

I’ve now told you enough that i may have absolutely given my identity away. Grad level science is a much smaller world than you might think.

Oh, please give me the opportunity. I love boring the shit out of people.

Oh, I have a small collection of figures like this that actually got published in geology papers. It’s a kind of fun game to get them past the reviewers, I guess.

Fair point

To clarify: Feynman could explain it, but can’t dumb it down enough for us mortals.

Thank you for some good (ish) news.

Malicious compliance.

cringes in Pittsburgh

Some days…reality just beats drugs.

Those are wasps, buddy, and it’s going to get worse.

Ok, good point, I don’t love the crystals people.

I dunno, geologists kinda love everything.

I love your username, btw

Clueless, table for 1

Ooh, deep-sea chantrelles!

Hydraulic conductivity

This can work. But: “Look at this hand sample I found at a prospective mineral mining source. What sort of resources might we find here? I have included a hefty research grant.”