• webadict@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    The way I learned it is that T looks like a hanging stalagTite and M looks like two jutting stalagMites.

  • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
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    5 hours ago

    I was taught “When tights come down, you might get lucky”.

    I wonder if our geology teacher was a bit of a perve?

    P.s. I think what we call “tights” in English is what Americans call “pantyhose”.

  • sbird@sopuli.xyz
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    8 hours ago

    Stalactites are the ones on the ceiling pointing down, while the stalagmites are the ones on the floor pointing upwards. A lot of people have good ways to memorise it, but my way is by imagining sta lag mites are slow little bugs crawling on the ground, and stalactites are therefore the opposite.

  • Octavio@piefed.social
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    8 hours ago

    Stalactites hold tight. Stalagmites might.

    See, if it’s hanging from the ceiling it must be holding tight, innit?

    Never forgot it after hearing this in the 4th grade.

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    7 hours ago

    My way to remember this is simply that stalactites are stalactites and stalagmites are stalagmites, not vice versa.

  • Jake Farm@sopuli.xyz
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    9 hours ago

    See my country claims that enough lands are publicly owned to not need that, except the same party saying that is constantly dismantling that too. Its almost like they were being disingenuous.