Drinking / tap water here comes from a limestone aquifer. Tap ware and shower screens and toilets develop a calcium carbonate build up that needs to be chemically removed.
I think anyone who’s been in a cave and heard how stalagmites form would remember that it’s calcium carbonate.
Probably not because it’s extremely useless for 99% of people lol
Does the average person know that a stalagmite is mostly calcium carbonate?
Just like how their government works, or what climate change is.
Like, people aren’t actually dumb, but 1% of their attention on anything that they aren’t paid to do can sure give that appearance.
Well no, why would they remember that? They’ve got to remember the chemical formula for one or two quartzes
I need that brain space for the Windows XP activation code
Of course
I knew both! AuDHD for the win.
Umm…what were we talking about again?
Maps, I think? Or ships. Possibly trains…
I swear it was neutron stars.
What if life were to evolve on a neutron star?
Read Flux by Peter F Hamilton if you want to find out.
I was thinking of Dragon’s Egg by Robert L. Forward. I’ll add Flux to my reading list. I enjoyed the one, so I’ll probably enjoy the other.
Thanks for the suggestion
Gamma-based life. Worlds full of hulk strength insectoids.
does that mean you could use a chunk of a stalagmite as a tums in a pinch? (I think that’s what tums is maybe its a different calcium)
Or that tooth plaque is calcium phosphate?
I think you mean tooth enamel, not plaque
Say it ain’t so!
Maybe people do know that?
Drinking / tap water here comes from a limestone aquifer. Tap ware and shower screens and toilets develop a calcium carbonate build up that needs to be chemically removed.
I think anyone who’s been in a cave and heard how stalagmites form would remember that it’s calcium carbonate.
I learned about it in school and have seen them in a caves but still had to look it up for the bit.
How about this…does the average person know that the transport latency of Dante audio is around 150 microseconds?
Maybe but I don’t.
That’s ok, I don’t expect anyone outside of my industry to know that
Sometimes it’s salt petre.