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How about Cummingtonite? They say it's commonly found, but it was named after Cummington (I found out about it by watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya_
by EGreg 2y ago
How about Cummingtonite?
They say it's commonly found, but it was named after Cummington
(I found out about it by watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya_D9IwB3-s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya_D9IwB3-s)
- nkurz 2y agoDid you link the right video? This is an old Onion video about a NASA mission. Was it in there somewhere?
- EGreg 2y ago"Her eyes are the color of magnesium iron silicate" The writers are the Onion were probably keeping that joke in reserve for a while LOL
- nkurz 2y agoHmm. I heard that, but didn't put it together. Magnesium Iron Silicate is Olivine. It has a very distinctive olive-green color: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivine. Cummingtonite is Magnesium Iron Silicate Hydroxide. It's not a plausible eye-color: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cummingtonite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cummingtonite. I guess it's possible they were making this joke and flubbed it by leaving out a word? (I looked it up because I live near Cummington MA, which it's named after)
- EGreg 2y agoI imagine they had to have been making the joke, because 1) it would otherwise be too random of a reference and 2) the youtubers all picked up on it lol