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Trivial Things That You're Proud Of
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Beagle
Joined: Thu Jun 24, 2010 10:09 pm Posts: 1536 Location: North Carolina
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I'm proud of the fact that I can keep time to music with my left foot and maintain my car's speed with my right foot.
I'm proud of the fact that I liked Nutella before it was cool. *hipster glasses*
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Sleet
Bringing Foxy Back
Joined: Thu Apr 29, 2010 1:32 am Posts: 13739 Location: Nephelokokkygia
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I play the entire drum set with my hands and feet in my car, also using the left foot for bass. Getting good exercise with my left foot should help me learn to play metal better. *giggles*
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| Tue Jan 29, 2013 2:46 pm |
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Beagle
Joined: Thu Jun 24, 2010 10:09 pm Posts: 1536 Location: North Carolina
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You should have seen our drum major. He and I would be driving to McDonald's, and he'd suddenly yell for me to take the wheel as he performed an air guitar solo while playing all the other air instruments at the same time. Good times, man, good times.
_________________ "Keep your feet on the ground, while your head's in the clouds~." -Paramore
"Almost all modern technology is idiot-proof. Don't be afraid to investigate. If it hasn't blown up yet, you're not trying hard enough." -Me
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tychoaussie
Joined: Mon May 14, 2012 12:00 pm Posts: 81 Location: East lansing, MI
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I found a 1.8 billion year-old chunk of metamorphosed banded iron formation in a mid-Michigan farmer's field. There's so much iron in it that a magnet sticks to it. It's super neat, with its stripes of nearly pure iron ore and it's layers of chert that are folded onto each other. The shape of this rock looks like a cow heart including the artery on top. Thus, I've nicknamed it "heart of stone".
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Sleet
Bringing Foxy Back
Joined: Thu Apr 29, 2010 1:32 am Posts: 13739 Location: Nephelokokkygia
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I want to see pictures. Did it oxidize at all?
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tychoaussie
Joined: Mon May 14, 2012 12:00 pm Posts: 81 Location: East lansing, MI
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 About five - 6 inches across, weighing in at about eight pounds. One dense rock! The iron is held in a matrix of either hematite (FE3O4) or Magnetite (FE2O3) interspersed with layers of silia-rich chert. Because the iron is already bonded with oxygen, it doesn't rust. The rock will however turn reddish if you handle it, especially on the cherty layers so I suppose that there are some unbound iron molecules floating about. This heart of stone has been heated and faulted, cracked, and pressed together then heated some more. It's been metamorphosed sometime in the ancient past while the north american continent was being stitched together out of separate microcontinents. I have an even prettier bit of BIF, with a totally different story of violence in it's past: Something came along and tore it up while still soft: Maybe even the tsunami caused by the Sudbury meteorite.
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Duster
Joined: Sat Jan 05, 2013 1:44 am Posts: 373 Images: 1 Location: Deep In The Heart of TEXAS
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Maybe it's a frozen ball of airplane waste like from the movie Joe Dirt!? I am proud of a fossilized sand dollar that i found on a rock in the creek bed close to my house.
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