Barry Goldman
@barrygoldman1.bsky.social
was studying origins of life, that got too narrow, now studying #Geology. ... maybe this time i'll regularly post original content, what should i write?
https://blackskimmer.blogspot.com/2018/07/finally-i-can-post-my-science-salon.htm
#Astrobiology
https://blackskimmer.blogspot.com/2018/07/finally-i-can-post-my-science-salon.htm
#Astrobiology
i take that back... it's kurt Vonnegut!
December 19, 2025 at 4:03 AM
i take that back... it's kurt Vonnegut!
wait! for Uranus, and chocolates, they should do Miranda, the rugalach moon!
December 15, 2025 at 1:18 AM
wait! for Uranus, and chocolates, they should do Miranda, the rugalach moon!
yeah... but y these look like the moons of jupiter tho
December 14, 2025 at 2:41 AM
yeah... but y these look like the moons of jupiter tho
also i need to spend LOT more time studying them. some of them i don't understand at all. like this one with ambigous hardness tests found with some Franklin marble (NY NJ) first one is marble, second is mystery
December 11, 2025 at 10:42 PM
also i need to spend LOT more time studying them. some of them i don't understand at all. like this one with ambigous hardness tests found with some Franklin marble (NY NJ) first one is marble, second is mystery
thanks, this looks ok. apparently even a page each on camponotus, formica, lasius.. i wonder if there is a book intermediate between this and for us northeast northamericans!
December 11, 2025 at 7:51 PM
thanks, this looks ok. apparently even a page each on camponotus, formica, lasius.. i wonder if there is a book intermediate between this and for us northeast northamericans!
oh god... this appears to be what happens to rock collectors.
i have no idea what the endgoal of my 3 year hobby is
80 different locations from NY MA VT and CT and growing. ugh!
i have no idea what the endgoal of my 3 year hobby is
80 different locations from NY MA VT and CT and growing. ugh!
December 11, 2025 at 7:27 PM
oh god... this appears to be what happens to rock collectors.
i have no idea what the endgoal of my 3 year hobby is
80 different locations from NY MA VT and CT and growing. ugh!
i have no idea what the endgoal of my 3 year hobby is
80 different locations from NY MA VT and CT and growing. ugh!
something like this edited wolf book (AMAZING book) in particular i found wilson and holdobler books too lacking in physiology and molecular bio etc.. i remember having to hunt around for sex det in ants...
thanks.
thanks.
December 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
something like this edited wolf book (AMAZING book) in particular i found wilson and holdobler books too lacking in physiology and molecular bio etc.. i remember having to hunt around for sex det in ants...
thanks.
thanks.
i explain thermal expansion by showing people things like this
i can't find a definitve picture of the massive cylinder that i recall the manhattan side base of the George Washington bridge is mounted on...
i can't find a definitve picture of the massive cylinder that i recall the manhattan side base of the George Washington bridge is mounted on...
December 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
i explain thermal expansion by showing people things like this
i can't find a definitve picture of the massive cylinder that i recall the manhattan side base of the George Washington bridge is mounted on...
i can't find a definitve picture of the massive cylinder that i recall the manhattan side base of the George Washington bridge is mounted on...
real bug that looks fake. how about pikachu spider?
Micrathena sagittata from Rensselaerville NY
when i google this species, other individuals DON'T have pikachu, for instance i post screenshot of duck duck go search
Micrathena sagittata from Rensselaerville NY
when i google this species, other individuals DON'T have pikachu, for instance i post screenshot of duck duck go search
December 7, 2025 at 1:39 AM
real bug that looks fake. how about pikachu spider?
Micrathena sagittata from Rensselaerville NY
when i google this species, other individuals DON'T have pikachu, for instance i post screenshot of duck duck go search
Micrathena sagittata from Rensselaerville NY
when i google this species, other individuals DON'T have pikachu, for instance i post screenshot of duck duck go search
dunno why i didnt pay attention to this uncomformity!!
will hav to go back.
will hav to go back.
November 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
dunno why i didnt pay attention to this uncomformity!!
will hav to go back.
will hav to go back.
was crazy outcrop. maybe grenville age.
November 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
was crazy outcrop. maybe grenville age.
yeah how do i navigate THIS. i need a hands on workshop!
November 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
yeah how do i navigate THIS. i need a hands on workshop!
anyway
so much to learn about th life of rock!
there is too much of it
and some of us r obsessed.
i have collected too much rock
so much to learn about th life of rock!
there is too much of it
and some of us r obsessed.
i have collected too much rock
November 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM
anyway
so much to learn about th life of rock!
there is too much of it
and some of us r obsessed.
i have collected too much rock
so much to learn about th life of rock!
there is too much of it
and some of us r obsessed.
i have collected too much rock
found it. in greywacke/shale bed rensselaer Co. NY. taconic alochthon.
November 19, 2025 at 11:07 PM
found it. in greywacke/shale bed rensselaer Co. NY. taconic alochthon.
i think this spider trying to mimic them too
Castianeira descripta
Castianeira descripta
November 19, 2025 at 12:45 AM
i think this spider trying to mimic them too
Castianeira descripta
Castianeira descripta
I found my first Pyrrhotite softer than fluorite and attracted to magnet! Found in quartz vein in marble outcrop, Berkshires MA usa
October 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I found my first Pyrrhotite softer than fluorite and attracted to magnet! Found in quartz vein in marble outcrop, Berkshires MA usa
I'm guessing this shiny purple layer inside the fracture is the same as the metal oxide films floating in water formed by bacteria? @darkmicrobio.bsky.social #geology
October 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I'm guessing this shiny purple layer inside the fracture is the same as the metal oxide films floating in water formed by bacteria? @darkmicrobio.bsky.social #geology
closest I ever got to a volcano is Stark's Knob pillow lava in Schuylerville NY. cool place
October 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
closest I ever got to a volcano is Stark's Knob pillow lava in Schuylerville NY. cool place
I have found this sample.. close to phyllite? Interesting texture but very hard.
September 30, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I have found this sample.. close to phyllite? Interesting texture but very hard.
What metamorphed to make this weird stuff? Im suppozed to be able to find kyanite grade schists south of me (troy ny) due to taconic orogeny. So far iv found phyllites (i need better fotos of my green ones) must hunt further for schist. This all from deep ocean mud
September 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM
What metamorphed to make this weird stuff? Im suppozed to be able to find kyanite grade schists south of me (troy ny) due to taconic orogeny. So far iv found phyllites (i need better fotos of my green ones) must hunt further for schist. This all from deep ocean mud
#MinCup no minerals yet but sorting out different grades of schist and gneiss along the road where i camped in the berkshires. 9 samples in abiut a mile or 2? If i could do thin sections id find ALL THE MINERALS. bear town mtn road.
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 AM
#MinCup no minerals yet but sorting out different grades of schist and gneiss along the road where i camped in the berkshires. 9 samples in abiut a mile or 2? If i could do thin sections id find ALL THE MINERALS. bear town mtn road.
Good view that th shiny little blobs in my franklin marble are graphite. Look at this tiny little sheet. From mt adam warwick ny.
September 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Good view that th shiny little blobs in my franklin marble are graphite. Look at this tiny little sheet. From mt adam warwick ny.
Y is this shale so glossy?
September 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Y is this shale so glossy?
Some pages of a rock book printed in the Iapetus ocean muds Cambrian times. Brought to proto new york during the Taconic orogeny. Now is the Rensselaer plateau graywacke, tho this is closer to slate #geology
September 18, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Some pages of a rock book printed in the Iapetus ocean muds Cambrian times. Brought to proto new york during the Taconic orogeny. Now is the Rensselaer plateau graywacke, tho this is closer to slate #geology
But then what is this crumbly mystery rock found in the same outcrop? It is harder than th calcite. More analysis required
September 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
But then what is this crumbly mystery rock found in the same outcrop? It is harder than th calcite. More analysis required