Post B27uC6At3evymELWNs by graydon@canada.masto.host
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(DIR) Post #B27qXEV4tnJWrZc20O by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-10T00:48:49Z
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If you had a matter synthesizer, that could make realistic rocks of any possible description and you wanted to prank a geologist into silence what would you ask it to print?It WILL fool them even if they test it. Why am I asking?Oh... no reason.
(DIR) Post #B27qhXWb1ND8lKElaS by TerryHancock@realsocial.life
2026-01-10T00:50:38Z
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@futurebird Definitely funky three-eyed, seven-limbed fossils.
(DIR) Post #B27qiHkLAbXO7H1OOe by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-10T00:50:49Z
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@nazokiyoubinbou What.
(DIR) Post #B27qsUFNY1t9mYP6WG by Momgoth@wandering.shop
2026-01-10T00:52:38Z
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@futurebird My mom’s special interest is geology. I think I should ask her. Probably something with a “fossil”.
(DIR) Post #B27qwYUJipZW5rKan2 by SRLevine@neuromatch.social
2026-01-10T00:53:21Z
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@futurebird Core sample with the iridium band in the wrong location.
(DIR) Post #B27qyMaYvz7Flf7A4e by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-10T00:53:44Z
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@SRLevine Now we're talking!
(DIR) Post #B27rAmp3DwE4bZobYm by Extra_Special_Carbon@mastodon.world
2026-01-10T00:55:56Z
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@futurebird I think some plain silicate rock that dates back millions of years, but with an embedded internal structure of epitaxially grown layered crystals ordered with such order it could only be synthetic.That’s the best I can do.
(DIR) Post #B27rd3bARbiqk9nlnU by flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange
2026-01-10T01:01:02Z
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@futurebird the Horta
(DIR) Post #B27sCcnpY11Y3xgWAK by btuftin@social.coop
2026-01-10T01:07:25Z
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@futurebird a fossil in granite
(DIR) Post #B27scy8Wqqsfl2vbe4 by darkling@mstdn.social
2026-01-10T01:12:13Z
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@futurebird A pleiosaur fossil. Carrying a placard reading "stop nuclear testing now".(source: Terry Pratchett, of course)
(DIR) Post #B27tEafSYYr7yUGpjk by fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-01-10T01:18:49Z
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@futurebird giant’s causeway, but knittedor rocks that date from the middle of the great unconformity
(DIR) Post #B27tkTKvLi80VIrqhk by llewelly@sauropods.win
2026-01-10T01:24:47Z
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@futurebird dilithium crystal?
(DIR) Post #B27ty1Os0qOjunArTc by Moss@beige.party
2026-01-10T01:27:14Z
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@futurebird A mineral structure that looks uncannily like that geologist’s mom
(DIR) Post #B27uC6At3evymELWNs by graydon@canada.masto.host
2026-01-10T01:29:45Z
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@futurebird A sample of an evaporite that would have had something like 25% Francium Chloride when it was deposited, but has now gone on existing for millions of years.
(DIR) Post #B27xy2Hn7QToTl7po0 by log@mastodon.sdf.org
2026-01-10T02:11:50Z
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@futurebird I'd print nephrite with perfectly interlocked fibers in the shape of a house, and pure corundum in the shape of triple-glazed windows. I'd call it domusite.
(DIR) Post #B281TWsBkLYEBNrIaO by temptoetiam@eldritch.cafe
2026-01-10T02:51:21Z
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@futurebird :blob_disapproval:
(DIR) Post #B28hjyjs6cXbJbUjpo by p4@masto.ai
2026-01-10T10:44:56Z
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@futurebird stealing another idea from Pratchett: fossilized pair of boots in a coal seam.Alternatively: sedimentary rock full of smashed up silicon wafers.