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[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (7 children)

How am I supposed to estimate the pH value of a given wetland area without specialised equipment?

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago
  1. Take a sip. Did you trip balls? Acid.
  2. Take a red wire, black wire, and a clock. Can you power the clock? Alkaline.

Duh.

[–] dogsnest@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago
  1. Determine whether it's a swamp or a marsh.

  2. Tell someone else you did your part, now it's their turn.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Just call it something online, if people don't immediately pop out of nowhere to correct you, then you're probably right.

[–] brap@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

What, you don't carry pH test strips around as a matter of routine? /s

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Learn botany. You can tell the approximate pH from the species of plants growing there.

[–] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Neat! Didn't know that.

[–] Mr_Wobble@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lick it. Just a little bit. Just a little snaky lick...

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe you can find some red cabbage growing nearby?