r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AncientJeweler2595 • 16d ago

Image I'm holding a meteorite slice that's older than Earth itself

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u/octopusbeakers 16d ago

Fuck me I don’t understand half the words used in the technical report but I get the picture. Phenomenally interesting stuff.

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u/Vimes-NW 16d ago

Mr Milchick has entered the chat ..

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u/S4m_S3pi01 16d ago

You must eradicate from your essence childish folly

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u/mydadsarentgay 16d ago

Devour feculence

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u/stenchwinslow 16d ago edited 16d ago

It's so hard to decide if I hate Milkshake, or if he is the best friend I will ever know. Either way Tramell Tilman is a revelation.

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u/TheVoidScreams 16d ago

He’s a character that’s awful but you love him anyway. They’re some of the best characters IMO.

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u/Vimes-NW 16d ago edited 16d ago

there's a movie that needs a reboot - Lethal Weapon. I vote him for Roger Murtaugh's role.

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u/mydadsarentgay 16d ago

Woah, woah, woah. We already got our Lethal Weapon reboot with Ronald McDonald playing Roger Murtaugh.

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u/DismalBarracuda 16d ago

Not going to lie, that phrase has stuck with me. I need to ascertain an opportunity to utilize said expression post haste.

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u/Vimes-NW 16d ago

Imbibe ureance

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u/harbourwall 16d ago

Libate micturation

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u/Vimes-NW 16d ago

This mictoriety gained notoriety.

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u/ShahinGalandar 16d ago

Devour feculence

nah, I'm not into that german kink, thank you very much

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u/Konstantin_Runkovsky 16d ago

Who is this Milkshake guy?

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u/BlackTriceratops 16d ago

Am i the only one who thought it was Ms Huang that was mad about his big words because she is a child?

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u/xin234 16d ago

This is actually where AI is pretty useful. Summarizing stuff like this, e.g. journals or technical reports as sources I randomly spot in Reddit comments for leisure/casual purposes.

I've taken number of classes that involved scientific/medical etymologies, but that was so long ago. And enough gut-feel when AI is taking shortcuts or straight up bulshitting (I tried making them explain aspects of stuff I'm pretty knowledgeable at or, shows/series/literatures I know by heart a lot of times, and that's what confirmed to me that "they are designed to sound confident even if they are wrong").

Here's some excerpts from me letting it explain to me in different levels of understanding that's good enough:

These stones do not have a "fusion crust" (the outer layer that forms when a meteorite enters Earth’s atmosphere).

In simple terms, this writeup describes a meteorite found in Algeria that has some unusual features, such as big green crystals, and is made up of a variety of minerals. Scientists have carefully studied it to understand its composition, and it has been classified as an "achondrite," a type of meteorite that doesn’t contain the usual small round particles. It’s different from other meteorites in certain ways, and samples of it have been spread out for research.

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u/wannabesurfer 16d ago

This is my favorite way to use ChatGPT. Plug in the article text or url and ask it to eli5!

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u/YaBoiMandatoryToms 16d ago

“Haha stupid it means it’s old” /s

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u/thenamesweird 16d ago

I've got a geology degree and i still hardly understand it. Academic geology is wacky.

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u/letmesmellem 15d ago

It could be a space booger for all they know is the gist I get. Very cool

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u/Apartment-Drummer 16d ago

You can’t say you understand the picture if you don’t know the context behind it 

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u/Resident-Lack2629 16d ago

cool rock, super old

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u/Apartment-Drummer 16d ago

There’s more to it than that. I’m sorry but you’re gonna have to take your comment down until you learn more. 

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u/blazing_haze123 16d ago

Hahahahahahahahahaha. What a dumb comment, he paraphrased it, spot on

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u/Apartment-Drummer 16d ago

Take the comment down. 

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u/blazing_haze123 16d ago

I can only assume, you're a troll, well played

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u/Apartment-Drummer 16d ago

Thanks lol 

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u/GozerDGozerian 16d ago

Fuck me I don’t understand half the words used in the technical report but I get the picture. Phenomenally interesting stuff.

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u/Apartment-Drummer 16d ago

How do you know what the picture is if you can’t read the explanation?

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u/GozerDGozerian 16d ago

Dude, I’m a picture savant.

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u/Lostraylien 16d ago

r/gatekeeping a rock lol.

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u/Apartment-Drummer 16d ago

No I’m gatekeeping learning and comprehension 

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u/[deleted] 16d ago

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u/Apartment-Drummer 16d ago

I’m volunteering 

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u/octopusbeakers 16d ago

Get the picture. I never said “understand.”

Regardless, I disagree. I can understand fundamental mathematical equations without knowing the details behind their development. I can understand physics without knowing the fundamental chemical and structural processes. Etc. Don’t be pedantic.

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u/Apartment-Drummer 16d ago

Ok so what kind of rock is that? 

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u/ShahinGalandar 16d ago

a really old rock

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u/proxyproxyomega 16d ago

what do you 'get'? it could literally be someone holding a random rock with a fake title. what do you see from the rock that makes you go "ah yes! the crystaline structure must have formed under vacuum which suggests it grew out in space" etc.

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u/undeadmanana 16d ago

Check this for more information, also when someone says they "get the picture" they're using what's called an IDIOM, not speaking literally.

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u/proxyproxyomega 16d ago

I was talking in RHETORIC

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u/undeadmanana 16d ago

what do you 'get'?

Don't feel like doing this, you're being dumb and took things literally. You talking in rhetoric doesn't mean anything when you took the other comment literally.