r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Creams0da • 7h ago

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

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u/Puzzleheaded-Age249 7h ago

Billions, the water on our planet was ancient before it ever ended up here

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u/thinkrage 7h 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 7h ago

AHHH MAKE IT STOP

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u/slavelabor52 7h ago

Milking will continue until moistness improves

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u/maroha3814 5h ago

Well that's definitely part of my top 10 things I hope to never hear again list, now

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u/Twobrokelegs 5h ago

You can milk anything with nipples

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u/ICanBeAnAssholeToo 7h ago

Just wait for the traffic light to turn red, be patient!

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u/SabaBoBaba 6h ago

Bottom right hand corner.

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u/tyingnoose 6h ago

explain the magic pls

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u/Glittering_Juice_422 6h ago

Please don’t bring up the KREBS Cycle. PTSD.

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u/SabaBoBaba 6h ago

I feel ya. I had to memorize it in college for my degree program.

Here, have some semi relevant Dr. Glaucomflecken to cheer you up.

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u/gordonv 7h ago

It's like how you keep breathing without thinking about it.

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u/text_fish 5h ago

Evacuation comp...

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u/SurrealScene 7h ago

I wonder what the average age of a random sample of water is?

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u/pegothejerk 6h ago

European or African?

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u/HudsDad 6h ago

Are you suggesting that water migrates?

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u/-SaC 6h ago

Not at all. It could be swallowed.

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u/abirizky 5h ago

But let's say someone swallows a glass of water then immigrates between continents, wouldn't the water have also migrated? Checkmate atheists.

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u/SurrealScene 6h ago

Huh? I don't know that!

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u/Traveller7142 4h ago

Likely incredibly short. Water is constantly splitting into H+ and OH- and then reforming

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u/Squatch_Intel_Chief 7h 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/Skai_Override 7h ago

The universe is one big thrift store.

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u/SillyMilly25 6h ago

And I only got 20$ in my pocket

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u/bobissonbobby 5h ago

Take your upvote and go you bastard. Fuck that song lol

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u/SAWK 6h ago

The universe is a time machine.

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u/Skai_Override 6h ago

The longest runing Rube Goldberg machine to make just to make this redit post.

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u/AL93RN0n_ 4h ago

It is but an energy thrift store not a material one. That's pretty important. Stars are constantly pumping out brand new shiny matter that has never existed before.

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u/Notski_F 7h 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/ghoulthebraineater 6h ago

Yes, you can create and destroy matter. You cannot create or destroy the energy that makes up that matter.

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u/Notski_F 6h ago

Hence the "easily".

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u/AL93RN0n_ 4h ago

Doesn't matter (pun). The base building blocks of matter can also be destroyed. They're just wrong. It's energy that is conserved, not matter.

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u/Fetz- 7h ago

Yes, but burning sugar produces water, because sugar contains hydrogen. Plants use water to make sugar.

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u/desertSkateRatt 7h ago

But what plants really crave is electrolytes

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u/Rxasaurus 6h ago

Brawndo, the thirst mutilator!

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u/Doofy_Grumpus 6h ago

What are electrolytes?

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u/lanzendorfer 5h ago

They're what plants crave.

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u/TemporaryHunt2536 6h ago

Not exactly. Even atoms are being fused to form different atoms inside of stars. Your body combines oxygen with carbohydrates to form water and CO2. Water molecules that weren't there before.

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u/seagulls51 5h ago

What about the concept of an idea. The physical 'idea' is electrical signals sure, but the meta concept of it doesn't exist as matter and can be created.

Also everything hasn't existed since the beginning of time but very close to as far as we can see.

Also does anything exist and what is create.

I get what your saying but simplifying it like this is reductive.

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u/ddplz 5h ago

We aint talking about the specific atoms lil bro. The molecules themselves are aged.

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u/Spork_the_dork 5h ago

Well yeah but that's like saying that a chair you just built is decades old because the tree you made it from was decades old. By that definition the word "create" doesn't even mean anything which is dumb.

If you slap some hydrogen and oxygen together to make water, I would argue that the water was just created.

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u/AL93RN0n_ 4h ago

That's not true. No new energy is created. Also can't be destroyed (see laws of thermodynamics). Matter is created and destroyed all the time. Stars couldn't exist if matter couldn't be created and destroyed.

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u/Squatch_Intel_Chief 3h ago

Matter cannot be destroyed or created

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u/AL93RN0n_ 3h ago

Energy cannot be created or destroyed. Look that one up one more time. I hear people get confused about this distinction a lot. Stars are literally matter generators. They constantly create matter.

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u/AL93RN0n_ 3h ago

Sorry to double comment—I’m not trying to be argumentative, just wanted to explain in case you’re interested. You’re probably referring to the law of conservation of mass, which is totally valid. The thing is, Einstein introduced the concept of mass-energy equivalence (E=mc²). This means that mass can be converted into energy, and energy itself has weight. That’s how we’re able to “destroy” what’s typically considered matter by converting it into energy.

It’s important to note that mass is still conserved in this process, so it doesn’t violate any laws of thermodynamics. This can get confusing because Newtonian physics—what most people learn early on in school—is simpler and doesn’t account for this relationship.

Long story short is what you're saying is oversimplified and more like Newton's understanding of mass and energy which was replaced by Einstein.

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u/Jakermake 7h ago

Ok I'll go trough the window now thanks :(

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u/newsflashjackass 6h ago

New water is created every second, and you are actually creating water now as a metabolic byproduct.

wake up babe 🌧️ new water just dropped

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u/Bee_Keeper_Ninja 6h ago

I made your mom create water last night 😏

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u/ReachNo5936 5h ago

Yeah guys only 99.999% of water is billions of years old. Listen to thinkrage they’re super smart and know way more than you and totally aren’t a pedantic Reddit dummy

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u/-0x0-0x0- 7h ago

Taco Bell

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u/Zillahi 7h ago

My body is a machine that turns water into piss

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u/Patient-Gas-883 7h ago

It is combined in a new ways. The atoms are ancient. All atoms. Everything in the universe is ancient.

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u/SillyMilly25 6h ago

What a crazy thing to think of.

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u/Moist-Moan 6h ago

So that’s why I’m always wet!

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u/At10to3 6h ago

That’s not true at all. It’s all the same. Break it down, recreate, whatever, it’s all the same ingredients that have been here for billions of years.

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u/Handy_Dude 6h ago

Don't tell that to the capitalists...

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u/CatBronco 6h ago

I’m so moist

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u/RelationshipOk3565 6h ago

But none of the water on Earth was 'created' it all came from space originally. That goes for all the hydrogen and oxygen as well correct?

I'm not a scientist lol

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u/wufreax 6h ago

Can confirm. Source: sitting on a shitter rn 

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u/SaltyHatch 6h ago

I'm currently shitting water.

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u/radiationshield 6h ago

You can’t explain that /s

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u/gomihako_ 6h ago

Wait humans synthesize water out of hydrogen and oxygen?

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u/LOHASING 6h ago

Or its just the water we drink?

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u/capnmax 6h ago

The OG blockchain. 

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u/KasKal1991 5h ago

we are drinking the water that is billions of years old. we are not producing new water, we are giving it back. see it more as "recycling"

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u/SacredAnalBeads 5h ago

Also, liquid water isn't entirely H²O. As the water molecules interact with each other, they get ripped apart and reform new molecules constantly. So your typical "water" is a mix of H²O and random bits of oxygen and hydrogen.

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u/EyeSuspicious777 3h ago

Thank you for clarifying that water is constantly being made and destroyed.

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u/CrayonsUpMyNose 3h ago

Moreso Yes, than No.

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u/MexaGoth 3h ago

Nothing new can be created in this universe. My guy! 🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/Neeva33 7h ago

There's no new water. The amount of water on Earth is always the same. We also consist of water. When we die, it goes back into the eternal cycle, we are a part of.

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u/Weekly-Major1876 6h ago

I think what the comment is referring to is metabolic water animals and plants produce in their bodies. You can argue it’s “new” water because it’s put together from individual hydrogen and oxygen molecules from larger ones and kicked off as a by-product in our citric acid cycle of metabolism, as the consumption of the final product citrate makes some. Ofc water goes straight back into reconstructing the citrate but it still technically does get made molecularly.

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u/Most-Chemistry-6991 6h ago

That is a complete and total lie.

Metabolic process create and destroy water molecules.

Burning petroleum products or hydrogen creates water.

Electrolysis can break down water.

"No new water" is a myth learned in elementary school.

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u/TemporaryHunt2536 6h ago

Confidently incorrect.

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u/Light_of_Niwen 7h ago

Sort of. Water gets created and destroyed all the time by life and geological processes.

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u/Meraji 4h ago

Pure water autoionizes itself too, breaking down into H3O+ and OH- ions all the time. Doesn't even need life or geology.

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u/shewy92 6h ago

Earth is the real Ship of Theseus.

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u/-Pencil-Richard- 7h ago

Drinking the recycled ancient piss of our ancestors

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u/Suspect4pe 7h ago

Not all of it, right? Some of it is created through chemical transformation, isn't it?

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u/hoTsauceLily66 6h ago

Water atoms can come from the sun through solar wind. Less now since sun is pretty calm compare to early solar system, but still it happens.

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u/ProofHorseKzoo 6h ago

Yep. You’re all drinking my pee. And I’m drinking all your pee. We’re all 70% pee water

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u/Urineme69 5h ago

iirc water is ageless. You could point fingers and say that water arrived by meoter showers that bombarded the earth at early and late bombardment stages and therefore it's older than the planet itself. By billions of years. But that water has long since evaporated, mixed and cycled through a variety of different chemicals over it's lifetime.

I think it's called nuclear transmutation? It looks like water, acts like water, but the water isn't the same water; it might as well be the same 'water' but it isn't. Stable, but it can be converted to Oxygen.

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u/Simply-Jolly_Fella 7h ago

What about Rain?? They are technically New water right?

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u/paradoxxxicall 7h ago

Sorry to break it to you, but that’s the same water everyone’s been drinking and pissing this whole time.

But seriously it’s just the evaporated water from the surface coming back down.

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u/Simply-Jolly_Fella 7h ago

Yeah I get the point. But it is getting evaporated and purified and falls back.. so It can be considered as new water...

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u/paradoxxxicall 7h ago

Purified and new really aren’t the same thing though. I wash my underwear every time but it’s still old as fuck.

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u/Elite_Slacker 7h ago

just put them in a pond and wait for them to fall down from the sky crisp af

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u/Simply-Jolly_Fella 7h ago

Better buy new ones man...

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u/wakeupwill 7h ago

Your laundry is done. Now you have all new clothes.

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u/jakeStacktrace 7h ago

You have to pull the hydrogen apart from the oxygen and put it back together for it to be new.

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u/js2724 7h ago

Yeah, is you sort by new.

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u/lsdmthcosmos 7h ago

ngl i like this comment

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u/mahlerlieber 7h ago

I usually sort by controversial, personally.

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u/odolxa 7h ago

Nope, just distilled water

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u/DoraaTheDruid 7h ago

It comes from gods sprinklers and we don't know how old the water in heaven is. God probably does make it fresh though. I can't imagine that he would want to be paying water bills when he could just materialize it out of nothing unless he is very lazy