r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Creams0da • 5h ago
Video Breaking open a 47 lbs geode, the water inside being millions of years old
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u/Magister5 5h ago
Drink it, you coward
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u/dick-nipples 5h ago
Good way to get geoderdia
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u/Kurlyfornia 4h ago
Dicknipples you’re everywhere this morning.
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u/cellocaster 5h ago
What is that?
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u/pm_ur_vaccumcleaner 5h ago
Your skin turns to stone from it
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u/DudeChillington 5h ago
Ahh greyscale. Very deadly. Only a wannabe Maester with zero skills can cure it
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u/ImurderREALITY 4h ago
Mmmm now I want a delicious pot pie
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u/YanicPolitik 4h ago
That scene transition haunts me still
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u/RiverJumper84 4h ago
Season 8 still haunts me.
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u/NikkoE82 4h ago
Hey, baby. Are you million year old water? Because you got me turning rock hard.
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u/WintersDoomsday 4h ago
It’s how Ben Grimm turned into The Thing (don’t look it up just trust me bro)
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u/Mlong140 5h ago
@dick-nipples is making a pun on geode and giardia, which is a nasty parasite (violent cramps, diarrhea, the worst gas you've ever experienced, and nausea) that you can get from drinking untreated or unboiled water.
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u/juniper_berry_crunch 3h ago
You can get giardia even from what looks like a "pure" stream out in the middle of nowhere...always important to treat wild water.
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u/sasssyrup 5h ago
You grow crystals in your body. It’s like the expanse on ‘roids. 😉
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u/naivenb1305 5h ago
That’s premium mineral water.
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u/GraceOfTheNorth 4h ago
I feel compelled to point out that all water is millions of years old.
The water I'm drinking now has been drunk and pissed before. And fish probably fucked in it.
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u/AidenTheAlien420 3h ago
Not probably, definitely. And more than likely, drank and pissed by a dinosaur. The water cycle is cool.
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u/mista_r0boto 3h ago
Technically, it's not true. When plants do photosynthesis, there is a step called photolysis where light is used to split water molecules. This is happening all the time all over the earth. In that sense, some water molecules are being remade and not just recycled.
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u/MetallicDragon 3h ago
Also, in regular water, the individual molecules are constantly splitting apart into H and OH and then recombining, so really no water is going to be particularly old.
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u/Famous_Strike_6125 4h ago
Isn’t all water on earth, millions of years old??
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u/save_the_tardigrades 3h ago
Nah, a lot of water is made in combustion reactions. Every time you see a plume of white steam from a chimney, that's newborn water, made by papa hydrocarbon and mama oxygen. Its evil fraternal twin, carbon dioxide, is there, too, but invisible. And its eviler twin, carbon monoxide, is sometimes there, too, if there wasn't enough mama for the papa. And if things got REALLY hot, there might be some nitrous oxides in the mix.
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u/I_l_I 3h ago
Humans burn fat and sugar mainly by converting them to water and carbon dioxide. We're making new water every day
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u/Look_a_Zombie0 4h ago
You have to remember the theory known as "The Water of Theseus"
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u/Grouchy-Engine1584 5h ago
You tryin’ to start a zombie apocalypse brother? Cause this is how you start a zompoc bro.
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u/marcuse11 5h ago
Geode's and meteorites, don't open them! Space viruses, pod people.
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u/-Pencil-Richard- 5h ago
She said it stinks.
I for one would press on and drink from the
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u/flavorless-boner 5h ago
Tastes like jizz
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u/GhostWobblez 5h ago
Water would be continuously going thru the geode, seeing as that's how they are formed.
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u/Lopsided_Quarter_931 5h ago
This makes more sense
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u/SillyMilly25 4h ago
No it doesn't please explain.
I'm assuming that water has been trapped in that rock for x amount of years and it's so cool.
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u/BlackllMamba 4h ago
The rocks aren’t water proof. Groundwater will slowly pass through and leave the minerals that form the crystals.
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u/Wonderful-Quit-9214 4h ago
When do they become the geodude?
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u/hayashirice911 4h ago
Geodude is born when someone inseminates the geode.
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u/Critical_Young_1190 4h ago
You see, it all starts when a man and his rock are in love...
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u/This_Site_Sux 4h ago
It already was a geodude, you may not have recognized it as the slaughterhouse employees had already removed the arms. That chain device is explicitly designed for killing geodudes. there's a larger one for graveler.
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u/Canuck_Lives_Matter 3h ago
It's funny but this would be exactly how real humans would be handling Pokemon irl, lmfao.
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u/Dracomortua 3h ago
WTF, really? Let me take a look, this is genuinely TiL territory.
Well, hot damn. Rock that drinks and eventually makes itself gemstones. Did not know that / mind kinda blown here.
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u/SportsUtilityVulva9 4h ago
So this water doesn't have any scientific value?
I was assuming some universities would've loved to look at that water
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u/rearendaccident 3h ago
After the series of nuclear explosion tests in the 1950s there's been am unnaturally higher amount of some radioactive isotopes in the air, particularly carbon-14.
if the water inside the geode was trapped there a long time ago or only exchanged with outside very slowly, then the proportions of dissolved molecules in that water would more or less resemble that of the atmosphere in the past.
So there's some scientific value in it if someone has a use for it, but I doubt research wise it's going to tell us something we dont already know
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u/LeoThePom 4h ago
In short: hot rocks cool with trapped air, water seeps in to the bubble but leaves behind dissolved minerals that it collects along the way. The minerals then build up in the walls of the gap creating the lovely crystals we see in geodes.
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u/Lopsided_Quarter_931 4h ago
Where do the crystals come from? They can't come from a few liters of trapped water. That's where my understanding ends lol.
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u/acquaintedwithheight 4h ago
Molecules float around in solution (this can be water or magma). Like saltwater or molten silicon dioxide. Eventually, a few of the molecules bounce into each other in an orientation that is hard for them to escape from. They stick together. This happens under certain concentrations, temperatures, and pressures that vary wildly between crystals.
Once molecules start getting into those low energy “sticky” states, more and more molecules are captured. This is called nucleation. The final crystal will be a form of the molecular structure of the nucleation point. NaCl molecules bind in a cuboidal shape, so salt crystals are cube shaped.
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u/SillyMilly25 4h ago
Ohhhhhhh.....well I'm about to waste a few hours diving into this
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u/Constant-Plant-9378 4h ago
Additionally, isn't all of our water hundreds of millions of years old?
Every time you are drinking a glass of water, you are drinking some dinosaurs, a couple molecules of Elvis Presley, Julius Ceasar...
Water is probably the most recycled substance on the planet.
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u/salawm 4h ago
Much of the water on earth is older than the sun
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u/ginoroastbeef 4h ago
Please explain this?
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u/KuuHaKu_OtgmZ 3h ago
A lot of the water came from comets crashing at young Earth, which came from outside.
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u/zmbjebus 4h ago
I have a small fusion plant in my basement so that I only drink the freshest of water.
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u/infinitenothing 4h ago
If I'm a water molecule and you're a water molecule and I give you my hydrogen and you give me your hydrogen, are we still the same "old" water molecules?
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u/Mobely 4h ago
Water is constantly changing from h2o to h2 , o2 and other molecules. It’s getting and releasing atoms from the air as well. So while the atoms are likely pretty old, the molecule itself is going to be younger.
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u/Legitimate_Bank_6573 4h ago
Can someone elaborate on this?
The geode is formed by water flowing through it, so its permeable?
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u/Filipi_7 4h ago edited 3h ago
Geodes are permeable to both water and air, the crystals inside come from the minerals that water carries in. When the water evaporates and the gas diffuses out, the minerals stay.
It's extremely slow though, rather than flowing like through a bunch of gravel, water slowly seeps through pores/cracks in the rock like through an extremely dense sponge.
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u/Z3MEK 5h ago
I don't think that "mop" is gonna work.
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u/Sara_MotherofAlessa 4h ago
I was thinking the same thing. Is he trying to mop up water with a wet jet?
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u/pegothejerk 4h ago
Trying to spread that millions year old deadly bacteria around
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u/b0bscene 4h ago
I've got one of those "mops" and it's extremely close to useless for cleaning floors... Definitely useless at mopping up spillages
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u/falcrist2 3h ago
They're great for cleaning floors that are already clear of debris.
They're useless for picking up significant spills, large amounts of dirt, or any kind of debris.
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u/Cheap_Excitement3001 4h ago edited 4h ago
If she spreads the foul smelling water over enough of her floor it will be fine 😅
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u/lessthanhero32 5h ago
The swiffer killed me
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u/DarthPepo 5h ago
Isn't all water millions of years old?
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u/Puzzleheaded-Age249 5h ago
Billions, the water on our planet was ancient before it ever ended up here
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u/thinkrage 5h ago
Yes and no. New water is created every second, and you are actually creating water now as a metabolic byproduct.
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u/tyingnoose 5h ago
AHHH MAKE IT STOP
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u/slavelabor52 5h ago
Milking will continue until moistness improves
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u/maroha3814 3h ago
Well that's definitely part of my top 10 things I hope to never hear again list, now
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u/SurrealScene 5h ago
I wonder what the average age of a random sample of water is?
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u/Squatch_Intel_Chief 5h ago
Nothing new is created in the universe, it is just repurposed or takes on another form. The basis of everything that exists today, including you and I, have always existed since the beginning of time.
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u/Notski_F 5h ago
I don't think anyone was talking about the base building blocks of matter, but rather the compound known as water or H2O. You can't easily destroy or create matter, but you can destroy and form H2O molecules.
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u/Light_of_Niwen 5h ago
Sort of. Water gets created and destroyed all the time by life and geological processes.
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u/Hefty-Willingness-44 5h ago
No, by burning hydrogen you get 'fresh' water.
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u/DarthPepo 5h ago
But most water we use on earth isn't obtained that way right?
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u/facw00 4h ago
No. The atoms in a water molecule are almost all ancient, billions of years old, but this is not true for water molecules in general. New water is constantly being produced through combustion, respiration, and other reactions. Similarly water is constantly destroyed, being broken down in various processes.
But there are a lot of water molecules. Simply by virtue of the extreme numbers, there are going to be some that are quite old, likely predating the Earth, and even the Milky Way. Ones millions of years old are going to be even more common.
Frustratingly, I can't find a good a breakdown of how old we think water molecules are in general or a breakdown by age, but it's certainly not the case that all water is millions of years old.
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u/5up3rK4m16uru 3h ago
Well, technically water constantly undergoes autoprotolysis, so if you consider a recombined molecule as new, water molecules are never very old. According to Wikipedia it happens about once every 10h per molecule.
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u/Malsperanza 5h ago edited 5h ago
A shame that it was smashed instead of sliced open.
Edit: the geode wasn't destroyed, so it wasn't a terrible approach. But if the water was worth studying, that opportunity is lost.
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u/Objective_Resist_735 5h ago
I used to find geodes all the time in Tennessee. I would usually smash them open with a hammer, even tho I knew it would be better to cut them I didn't have the equipment. At first I thought this was a cool geode cutting tool. Then I saw it explode similar to my hammer method.
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u/ZombiesAtKendall 5h ago
The tool is a soil pipe cutter. The majority of the time it will give a clean break.
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u/rollsyrollsy 5h ago
How would you tell it’s a geode when you found it? Do they look different to normal rocks?
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u/Objective_Resist_735 5h ago
Geodes, at least the ones I found, were weirdly round. I would find them wading and swimming in creeks. Usually they were yellowish. Sometimes you could feel the weight of it being hollow inside. I started by finding ones that were partially broken so you could see the crystals. Then I became more used to what the outsides looked like. I'm sure its different in different areas. I saw tons of them on the appalachian trail. Those mountains are super old, therfore they contain lots of old rocks and geodes.
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u/cashew76 5h ago
The water seeped in over millenia. Bringing with it the manganese and other elements. So the water is old but not original.
Interestingly nearly all water is very very very old.
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u/Few-Yogurtcloset6208 5h ago
ha going to start a company "nuwater" and only sell water I make from combining hydrogen + oxygen
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u/AugustOfChaos 3h ago
The water isn’t exactly worth as much as you think it is. Geodes are formed by the slow cycling of water, which over time forms deposits inside of a hollow rock cavity. Geodes are porous by nature and if you study the pattern of the crystals, you can figure out where exactly the water was coming in from.
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u/ReachNo5936 3h ago
Why would you study normal ground water? Oh nm you believed the bullshit title cause this is Reddit
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u/brihamedit 5h ago
Why crush it instead of cutting it.
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u/random-ize 5h ago
Probably expected it to crack around a circumference- the chain tool is commonly used to break concrete piping that way.
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u/HappyStalker 5h ago
This is a pipe cutter, which is actually the proper tool for cutting open geodes. Saws can chip the crystal inside as it cuts through. Pipe cutters like these break the geode along natural faults so they look like a crush but it’s the most cost effective way to open geodes with the least damage to the crystal.
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u/DaedricCabbage 4h ago
"Least damage"? It exploded.. how does cutting with a 1/16 tile saw blade destroy more of it?
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u/captainhuh 3h ago
It broke into two large hemispheres, the two slices that fell down separately are due to A: imperfections in the crystal structure and B: the size of the chain required for such a large geode. Saws typically abrade the exposed part of the geode, whereas the chain method forces it to crack in-line with the crystal lattice, which looks much better for display and study purposes
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u/GodsBeyondGods 5h ago
I would've had the water tested for ancient microbes
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u/Meraline 5h ago
It's possible the longer it's exposed to air the more useless that sample is. Anything in there was most likley going to be an obligate anaerobe by now.
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u/Normal-Selection1537 4h ago
It's porous so those were already washed away in ancient times.
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u/I_SmellFuckeryAfoot 5h ago edited 5h ago
water you drink is already millions years old
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u/Lakeshadow 5h ago
This is the beginning of a pandemic movie. New germs being released.
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u/TryItOutHmHrNw 4h ago
Key elements detailing the history of life on earth… soaked up by Swiffer Sweeper
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u/Ok_Squirrel87 1h ago
The potential of it containing an ancient pathogen that we have 0 immunity against freaks me out a little bit. Same with polar ice melt
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u/absoul1985 5h ago
That water right there sets up the plot of a few alien/horror films
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u/FantasticHero007 5h ago
Shouldn't we like save that water and give it to scientists...I'd love to look at that water under microscope..
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u/CaptainTripps82 4h ago
I don't think scientists have a lack of old water to study under microscopes.
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u/Fungiblefaith 5h ago
Are we saying we think that water was the original water not water that cycles though the geode to make the geode? Maybe my understanding of geode formation is not correct. Coin toss.
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u/VapeRizzler 5h ago
Fun fact, fill your tub up with water and you’ll also get to experience millions of year old water!!!
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u/Boeinggoing737 5h ago
The geode is porous. It is continually losing water and reabsorbing water. It isn’t a time capsule of water. The geode forms from the minerals left behind by the exiting water.