Oldest Water On Earth Discovered And Someone Drinks It

The professor’s willingness to gulp down a mouthful of strange moisture is not that weird apparently.

According to Sherwood Lollar, geologists are always putting strange stuff in their mouths in the name of science.

“If you’re a geologist who works with rocks, you’ve probably licked a lot of rocks,” said Sherwood Lollar.

This might come as a shock to any Star Wars fans who watched the part in The Last Jedi where a resistance soldier tasted the ground on the planet Crait and wondered why, in Lucas’s name, anyone would ever do that.

Apparently, Rian Johnson was just trying to make the most scientifically accurate Star Wars film that he could.