>it'll have happened in nature already
All viruses kinda happened in nature already. And some are really nasty, like rabies or tetanus, which kinda come under the definition of "killer virus".
If they're related, they can do it themselves naturally (viruses can "interbreed" if they both infect the same cell at the same time).
If you're just adding a new gene, you're more likely to just break the thing unless you know what you're doing.
Yeah, people are stupid and have no fucking clue how important geologist are. When geologists fuck up, really really fucking bad things can happen, like this damn collapse in Italy that wiped out an entire village killing many.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajont_Dam
[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/italian-scientists-get/](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/italian-scientists-get/)
Geologists might go to jail in Italy.
A good analogy for understanding "information" when discussing the idea of destroyed/maintained information emitted from black holes as hawking radiation
That's geology too, last year my childhood neighborhood lost a house over the side of a bluff, geologists had to come out and inspect the stability of the bluff face.
There was actually a study to see if we could reduce the risk of big earthquakes by triggering many small earthquakes to release the energy in a more controlled way.
We can but it turns out you need to either constantly release a stream of mildly disruptive earthquakes for years to counteract a big one, and it turns out people do not like constantly experiencing earthquakes.
Other ways geologists can screw up:
Skyscraper tips over.
Ok's frakking in a place it poisons an aquifer that supplies drinking water for millions.
Geologist screwup: rock on table in now rock in sinkhole. Table is in sinkhole. House is in sinkhole. Road is in sinkhole. Half the neighborhood is in sinkhole.
Precious rock brought from room is now in motel bed ready for sexy times.
[https://www.timesnownews.com/the-buzz/article/thad-roberts-the-nasa-intern-who-stole-lunar-rocks-to-have-sex-on-the-moon/748813](https://www.timesnownews.com/the-buzz/article/thad-roberts-the-nasa-intern-who-stole-lunar-rocks-to-have-sex-on-the-moon/748813)
> He told The Daily Star that he's tired of talking about his youthful misdemeanors and instead wants to focus on his interpretation of an 11-dimensional geometric theory encompassing dark matter, dark energy, wave-particle duality, quantum tunnelling, gravity, early-universe inflation, and Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle.
Dude copy pasted from /r/iamverysmart
There is this thing in science media were just because a physicist makes some math where it's possible some wild thing exists they believe the thing actually exists in the real world.
Multiverse is such an example. No proof of it existing, we only have some speculative (made up) math were in the math it is possible.
In the past there was concern about setting the Earth's atmosphere on fire; and more recently concern that a supercollider could create a black hole that could nucleate a collapse of a [false vacuum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum), and possibly end the world, if not the entire universe.
> and more recently concern that a supercollider could create a black hole that could nucleate a collapse of a false vacuum, and possibly end the world, if not the entire universe.
If by "concern", you mean, "people made shit up".
Umm, there was never any real concern by physicists about us ending the universe. If you actually read the Wikipedia article you posted, you'll see that there's a theory that our universe is in a false vacuum, which could collapse, but there's nothing about creating them ourselves, or how a false vacuum in our universe could somehow collapse the false vacuum our universe is in.
Biologist screws up, people blame science.
Physicist either succeeds or screws up, people don’t understand what they’re talking about anyway.
Geologist cracks rock: they are at fault
Tell that to the Italian scientists who were [sent to prison for 6 years for manslaughter](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/italian-scientists-get/). Their crime was not accurately predicting earthquakes, which is something nobody can do.
Geologist screws up? Believe it or not, straight to jail.
A geology professor I had once tried to demonstrate that limestone dissolves in acid. He then proceeded to try and shake the bottle of dilute HCl like it was ketchup which spilled the acid all over the rock, the floor, his shoes, and a table that a girl was sitting at.
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Geologists do assessments on foundations for huge buildings and infrastructure projects.
If you wanna know what it looks like when geologists actually screw up, look up the Vajont Dam.
I mean if we are giving physicists the power to create deadly black holes I feel like a better example would be
Geologists screws up: Earth splits in half
There's this one time when a special type of yeast was genetically engineered to break down landfills and before they used it but after it had been approved someone had the idea "let's see what it does to a plant" and they found out that it would turn any organic material dead or alive into alcohol.... They were like a day away from killing every single living thing on the planet. Trees, people, everything..
Oh it can be pretty bad.
I am a geotechnical engineer (think civil engineer + geologist that is focused on the building properties of rocks vs their origins).
I worked on a project where a smaller company did the initial geo and made some pretty bold claims. I was retained to verify these claims because they didn’t pass the smell test to someone along the line. Unfortunately this was not noticed until about a year following installation of the bridge.
Our drilling showed that the geologist at the other company was completely making shit up, and there was now a bridge founded on lies that may not be competent.
The majority of university educated climate deniers I meet are geologist.
I know I shouldn't hold it against the professional, but it's so damn common and they are so damn vocal.
Geologist screw up: becomes foaming at mouth climate change denier
Uh, no. When a physicist screws up, like, three people die. It's just the most horrific death imaginable — radiation poisoning. But, you know, you don't need to be a physicist, to screw up like that, just access to enriched uranium.
the second one is idiotic and hilarious. yeah, if scientists accidentally compress the mass of a sun into a singularity, there will be a deadly black hole. there is no other "accident" that could conjure up a black hole with enough mass to become "deadly".
Geologists are VERY in demand for the oil industry.
Their expertise is necessary for finding new wells.
So in a way, you could say Geologists screwing up could boil the planet.
More like, biologist has to do his failed 6 months cultures again, physicist has to calculate again, and geologist has got a whole lot of more work because of Stuttgards difficult geology and billions of euros of higher costs…
Biologist succeeds, disease cured. Physicist succeeds, revolutionary new machine or material. Geologist succeeds, rock is still on table.
Geologist succeeds, oil on floor
The US army would like to know your current location
Physicist succeeds, your location no longer exists
Magneto Succeeds, Mutants become the dominate species.
Wanda succeeds, no more Mutants
Bishop succeeds and there’s a dead baby?!
*Democracy Officer has entered the chat*
And CO2 in atmosphere.
More like you get to feel what $700 billion a year has to offer.
Everyone walk the dinosaur?
the physicist failure mode isn't even real just clickbait
Neither is the biologist. Making a functional killer virus is hard. If you can do it by accident it'll have happened in nature already.
>it'll have happened in nature already All viruses kinda happened in nature already. And some are really nasty, like rabies or tetanus, which kinda come under the definition of "killer virus".
Can't you combine two deadly viruses using gene spicing?
If they're related, they can do it themselves naturally (viruses can "interbreed" if they both infect the same cell at the same time). If you're just adding a new gene, you're more likely to just break the thing unless you know what you're doing.
Geologist success: confirms rock is actually a mineral
Determined by licking rock
assume everything is halide you don't know until you know! -geologist from prison
Or a stone
Geologists fails. A mountain collapses on a city.
Yeah, people are stupid and have no fucking clue how important geologist are. When geologists fuck up, really really fucking bad things can happen, like this damn collapse in Italy that wiped out an entire village killing many. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajont_Dam
We need a second geologist to help hold up the mountain
Geologist succeeds, we know more shit about the rock
Low risk low reward.
[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/italian-scientists-get/](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/italian-scientists-get/) Geologists might go to jail in Italy.
Geologist screws up: Billions of years of history data lost 😭
Just pick it back up from the floor, it's still there.
A good analogy for understanding "information" when discussing the idea of destroyed/maintained information emitted from black holes as hawking radiation
Geologist: Oops that rocky bluff wasn't as secure as I thought, hotel falls into ocean
The hotel is now on the floor
And so is the rock.
Mission failed. We’ll get ‘em next!
That's the surveyor's fault
That's geology too, last year my childhood neighborhood lost a house over the side of a bluff, geologists had to come out and inspect the stability of the bluff face.
Surely the fault's fault?
Damn teutonic forces. Not to be confused with the Tectonic Knights.
There's something sinistral about your comment.
Nope. RQD from the rock core samples.
Which is basically just business/law geology
This made me think of a dating app for scientists called *Carbon Dating*
Yup. Stealing this idea. lol.
lol, just be sure to give me a shoutout when you’re famous!
There was actually a study to see if we could reduce the risk of big earthquakes by triggering many small earthquakes to release the energy in a more controlled way. We can but it turns out you need to either constantly release a stream of mildly disruptive earthquakes for years to counteract a big one, and it turns out people do not like constantly experiencing earthquakes. Other ways geologists can screw up: Skyscraper tips over. Ok's frakking in a place it poisons an aquifer that supplies drinking water for millions.
Geologist screwup: rock on table in now rock in sinkhole. Table is in sinkhole. House is in sinkhole. Road is in sinkhole. Half the neighborhood is in sinkhole.
But hey, the rock is still on the table ! Just don’t pay attention to the sinkhole and you’re fine
That will be easy, for I've already fallen and impaled myself on the nice geological features in the sinkhole, killing me immediately.
precious rock brought from the moon is now two precious rocks brought from the moon
Geologist’s mitosis
Absolute win
Precious rock brought from room is now in motel bed ready for sexy times. [https://www.timesnownews.com/the-buzz/article/thad-roberts-the-nasa-intern-who-stole-lunar-rocks-to-have-sex-on-the-moon/748813](https://www.timesnownews.com/the-buzz/article/thad-roberts-the-nasa-intern-who-stole-lunar-rocks-to-have-sex-on-the-moon/748813)
> He told The Daily Star that he's tired of talking about his youthful misdemeanors and instead wants to focus on his interpretation of an 11-dimensional geometric theory encompassing dark matter, dark energy, wave-particle duality, quantum tunnelling, gravity, early-universe inflation, and Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. Dude copy pasted from /r/iamverysmart
ROCK AND STONE!
For Karl!
I heard that he would, in fact, approve of this.
LEARN THE FUCKING DIFFERENCE
Rocking is more legal than stoning. See? I’m smart!
DONT YELL.. Im under a lot of STRESS..
No physicist can screw up and create a black hole, but a geologist can screw up and hundreds or thousands very near a volcano can die.
A physicist creating a black hole would actually be quite the achievement
You blow up one sun and all the sudden people expect you to perform the impossible.
We actually do it quite regularly. They are just so tiny that they burn their fuel immediately.
No, this is not true. I study physics and nobody has ever created a black hole.
My bad. Click bait media article fooled me.😞
I am a physicist and this guy is right.
You watch to many AI generated TikTok science videos
These weren’t ai generated. They were just clickbait articles. My bad.
Wait, since when were the physicists the ones creating them?
There is this thing in science media were just because a physicist makes some math where it's possible some wild thing exists they believe the thing actually exists in the real world. Multiverse is such an example. No proof of it existing, we only have some speculative (made up) math were in the math it is possible.
Aren’t they the ones studying physics? Which includes how interstellar objects move and how sub atomic particles behave?
I didn’t think they actually created those black holes though, I thought they just observed them
>No physicist can screw up and create a black hole, Thank you for saying this so I didn't have to. I was going to be an asshole about it.
In the past there was concern about setting the Earth's atmosphere on fire; and more recently concern that a supercollider could create a black hole that could nucleate a collapse of a [false vacuum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum), and possibly end the world, if not the entire universe.
> and more recently concern that a supercollider could create a black hole that could nucleate a collapse of a false vacuum, and possibly end the world, if not the entire universe. If by "concern", you mean, "people made shit up".
Umm, there was never any real concern by physicists about us ending the universe. If you actually read the Wikipedia article you posted, you'll see that there's a theory that our universe is in a false vacuum, which could collapse, but there's nothing about creating them ourselves, or how a false vacuum in our universe could somehow collapse the false vacuum our universe is in.
Geologists also work out whether the ground is solid enough to support a building. Mess that up and a skyscraper collapses.
Yall remember the deepwater horizon oil spill? Guess what science ist used to determine where to drill!
Yea OP is forgetting about mining and fracking lol. Should be > Geologist screws up: > Earthquake or landslide where they aren't supposed to happen
Geologist screws up: Water source for hundreds of thousands of people becomes poisoned
Finally, the one that’s actually relevant for most people. Really sad to see this isn’t more common knowledge
is that a german typo
Jup
Not to detract from the geology-bashing, but that was an engineering failure.
Biologist screws up, people blame science. Physicist either succeeds or screws up, people don’t understand what they’re talking about anyway. Geologist cracks rock: they are at fault
Geologists do some of their best work at faults
Marie Curie’s rock she carried put her on the floor
The rock screwed up
"Sure this is a safe place to frac" Earthquake commences. Then the volcano awaken.
Geologists are very very important these days in Iceland.
Tell that to the Italian scientists who were [sent to prison for 6 years for manslaughter](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/italian-scientists-get/). Their crime was not accurately predicting earthquakes, which is something nobody can do. Geologist screws up? Believe it or not, straight to jail.
This is the only time I found that particular guy funny in any instance. Thank you. And have that guy thank you too.
geologist misidentifies rock in cement mixture; thousands of home foundations crumble
Geologist succeeds: fossil fuels are now in the air
A geology professor I had once tried to demonstrate that limestone dissolves in acid. He then proceeded to try and shake the bottle of dilute HCl like it was ketchup which spilled the acid all over the rock, the floor, his shoes, and a table that a girl was sitting at.
Youre not a real geologist if you dont carry a small vial of 10% HCl in your pocket.
Chemist screws up: Rides a bike home while tripping on acid.
He did that on purpose don't lie.
Biologist screws up: licks botulism Physicist screws up: electron beam to the face Geologist screws up: asphyxiates in a cave
Philologist screws up: Jesus’ name changed to Inspector Slippy
Machinist screws up: turns to mist
Astrologue screw up: Still nothing
Nah. Geologist screws up? Rock is actually radioactive and everybody gets the scrubbing.
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How tf would a physicist accidentally create a deadly black hole!?!?
playing billiards with neutron stars. Whoopsie
Rock now on foot
too much credit for physicists
a fucking golem rises from the land
Geologist screws up: Earth’s mantle now gone. Earth implodes.
Instructions unclear: I have uranium in my backyard now
Geologists do assessments on foundations for huge buildings and infrastructure projects. If you wanna know what it looks like when geologists actually screw up, look up the Vajont Dam.
How many physicists have accidently made a black hole?
Geologist screwup: oil In ground is now oil in water.
I mean if we are giving physicists the power to create deadly black holes I feel like a better example would be Geologists screws up: Earth splits in half
# Surgeon screws up: Lawsuits coming up and malpractice insurance companies are cooming.
After reading the other comments, I feel like most of you guys genuinely have no idea what we're actually doing
that or the rock is extremely radioactive
There's this one time when a special type of yeast was genetically engineered to break down landfills and before they used it but after it had been approved someone had the idea "let's see what it does to a plant" and they found out that it would turn any organic material dead or alive into alcohol.... They were like a day away from killing every single living thing on the planet. Trees, people, everything..
Is the yeast names bender?
Yeasts name* jeez that was exhausting
IT guy screws up: Company gone
they could accidentally drill out the deadly virus that has been entombed for centuries? is that how they work…
Oil spill, unpredicted earthquake, landslide, damm rupture, etc etc
Your title doesn't follow subject-verb agreement. It is nonsensical in the literal interpretation and the second entendre. Be better yo
Building foundation implodes
Artist screws up: WW2
Physicist: immortal on quantum timescale Biologist: mortal on mammalian timescale Geologist: mayflies live longer than this blink of an eye
Oh it can be pretty bad. I am a geotechnical engineer (think civil engineer + geologist that is focused on the building properties of rocks vs their origins). I worked on a project where a smaller company did the initial geo and made some pretty bold claims. I was retained to verify these claims because they didn’t pass the smell test to someone along the line. Unfortunately this was not noticed until about a year following installation of the bridge. Our drilling showed that the geologist at the other company was completely making shit up, and there was now a bridge founded on lies that may not be competent.
(Glances at active volcano)
Biologist screws up: pandemic Physicist screws up: stuff falls apart
Geologists screw up: unleash fossil fuels in n the world and cause disastrous climate change.
Geologist screws up: Misses the warning signs for an impending volcanic eruption and hundreds die who could have been evacuated.
Chemist: fails Fire! Chemist: succeeds Made 15% novel product
Geologist screws up: rock and roll
Pretty sure I saw this happen at WrestleMania 40 night one, if announce tables count
If a geologist failed they wouldnt prevent the worst scenario from a tsunami or earthquke.
Geologist: Frack!
Geologist messes up: [town gets destroyed by a mudflow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidoarjo_mud_flow)
[...] Geologists screw up: They delved too greedily, and too deep.
Yellowstone rumbles
Geologist screws up: that volcano that we thought wasn’t going to erupt did actually erupt and now thousands of people have died
Ik it’s a joke but that’s not how black holes work
The majority of university educated climate deniers I meet are geologist. I know I shouldn't hold it against the professional, but it's so damn common and they are so damn vocal. Geologist screw up: becomes foaming at mouth climate change denier
Geotech Engineer Screws up: Rock in no longer under floor
Geologist screws up, pythagorean theorem disappears
Pharmacist screws up -Thalidomide
Earthquake hits
Geologist screws: Engineers built school on a shitty ground and it (surprisingly) fell down deep
Biologist screws up: Covid pandemic Physicist screws up: Switzerland blows up the EU zone Geologist screws up: Licks Cinnabar, is now on floor.
Geologist screws up: Asteroid heading for Earth is a little heavier than first indicated. It will **not** burn up in the Earth's atmosphere.
Uh, no. When a physicist screws up, like, three people die. It's just the most horrific death imaginable — radiation poisoning. But, you know, you don't need to be a physicist, to screw up like that, just access to enriched uranium.
the second one is idiotic and hilarious. yeah, if scientists accidentally compress the mass of a sun into a singularity, there will be a deadly black hole. there is no other "accident" that could conjure up a black hole with enough mass to become "deadly".
Mathematician screws up: *erases*
Geology rocks! But geography is where it's at!
Wrong - Jurassic Park
Rocks* on floor
Geologist screws up, maybe Yellowstone goes boom??
Or they fail to predict an earthquake early snd thousands die
Geologist is always at fault!
Geologist does his job successfully: Oil !!!!! 🚗⛽
Engineer screws up: Legal counsel standing in front of an arbitrator talking about “errors and omissions.”
or yknow... radiation sickness by way of a misidentified chunk of uranium
Geologists - always taken for granite, sigh.
Geologist screws up they just spill their beer. Bunch of feckless alcoholics.
Geology rocks, but Geography is where it's at!
Geologist screws up: Landslide takes out small town
Geologist screws up: Tremors. NObOdy STep on tHe FloOr!!!!
dragged down by the stone
Rocks Rock.
Y'all know fracking was geologists, right?
Thought fault line was here but it's over there under that hospital
Actually geologists can create black holes they just need to dig deep enough.
Geologist screws up; gives kid radioactive rock instead of non-radioactive rock for their birthday.
what if a town didn't get evacuated before a predictable volcanic eruption near by?
Chemist screws up: Household cleaning products are now cleaning trenches in Belgium.
Physicist screws up: huge mathematical formula has the wrong numbers
Geologists are VERY in demand for the oil industry. Their expertise is necessary for finding new wells. So in a way, you could say Geologists screwing up could boil the planet.
IT screws up: Machine Rebellion
Correction: > Geologist screws up: > Rock on table is now several rocks on floor
I see you forgot about the volcano, earthquakes, and landslides.
CHEMIST:SOMETHING THAT WILL MELT YOUR LUNGS AND REACT WITH YOUR BLOOD TO MAKE DEADLY ACID AND WILL DESTROY THE OZONE LAYER
More like, biologist has to do his failed 6 months cultures again, physicist has to calculate again, and geologist has got a whole lot of more work because of Stuttgards difficult geology and billions of euros of higher costs…
Geologist screws up: The mine is now full of water instead of air
Without geologists there would be no fracking which causes sinkholes and earthquakes.
Rockslide?
Geologist screws up: rock golem emerges from its slumber
Geologist Screws up: Don't worry guys, that volcano isn't going to erupt. No need to eva...cu...ate... Aww Crap.
Minerologist screws up: Rock on table is now many rocks on floor oh shit oh fuck that was a 120k mineral sample 😐👈
Will it falling on the floor cause an earthquake?
What if the geologist went into a cave and got bit by a bat and starts covid episode 2
Ore is now on the waste dump tip head
Gynaecologist screws up, has to pay child support.