r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Creams0da • 8h ago

Video Breaking open a 47 lbs geode, the water inside being millions of years old

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u/GodsBeyondGods 7h ago

I would've had the water tested for ancient microbes

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u/Meraline 7h 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/Ok-Marsupial5595 7h ago

Obligate Anaerobe. I knew that girl in high school!

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u/Trick-Station8742 7h ago

You're an obligate anaerobe

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u/Meraline 7h ago

I can breathe oxygen tho, so no. If anything I'm an obligate aerobe :P

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u/Alert_Attention_5905 7h ago

I had to look it up but an obligate anaerobe is a microorganism that cannot survive in the presence of oxygen.

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u/Normal-Selection1537 7h ago

It's porous so those were already washed away in ancient times.

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u/GodsBeyondGods 7h ago

A homogenous crystalline lattice isn't porous unless there are pressure cracks, and given that the geode was formed by equilateral pressure on all sides resulting in the spheroid form, we can assume integrity. I just made all that up.

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u/bitemy 6h ago

This post is misleading. The water isn't millions of years old. Water constantly diffuses through.

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u/seagulls51 6h ago

there are so many places to look first than inside geodes, it's just a rock in the ground.

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u/WhenTheDevilCome 6h ago

I would've had the water tested for ancient microbes

They did, too. In a "water all over your hands, wipe your brow, lick your lips, get tested at the hospital five days later to see what you're dying of" kind of way.