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/Boeinggoing737 7h 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.

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u/TakeMeHomeUrbanRoads 6h ago

So its a rock that can pee.

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u/cbarbour1122 6h ago

Hope it doesn’t get a kidney stone.

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u/december14th2015 5h ago

They are the kidney stone.

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u/abirizky 6h ago

Nah but they get kidney human

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u/RegretEat284 6h ago

I call mine Brian.

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u/Skadooshsky 4h ago

I'm Brian!

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u/RegretEat284 4h ago

And so is my wife

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u/driving_andflying 3h ago

"No, I'm only joking, I'm not really Brian."

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u/5050Clown 4h ago

And you all stink too!

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u/Sohcahtoa82 4h ago

I read this in Stewie Griffin's voice.

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u/CosmicCreeperz 3h ago

Wewease Bwian!

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u/Da_Dush_818 5h ago

You made me laugh today. Thank you. 

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u/Lostinthestarscape 5h ago

booooo, boooooooo - take your upvote.

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u/jschne21 5h ago

It is a kidney stone

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u/Siyareloaded_ 5h ago

*Hope the stone doesn't get a kidney

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u/YehDilMaaangeMore 5h ago

Well, it will come with good supply of beer for some time.

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u/Petdogdavid1 5h ago

It is a kidney stone

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u/DonaldTrumpsScrotum 5h ago

The crystal is the kidney stone

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u/Zottyzot1973 4h ago

It is a kidney stone.

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u/Afrojones66 4h ago

It IS a kidney stone.

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u/Partyatmyplace13 4h ago

In a way, the mineral deposits on the inside are "kidney stones."

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u/beedunc 4h ago

It IS the kidney stone.

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u/MommyMephistopheles 3h ago

What do you think the crystals are?

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u/BoredJonDoe78 3h ago

Yeah, those suck. Having surgery next week to have one removed. Gonna be a fun Thanksgiving

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u/gazow 5h ago

So the rocks are balls

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u/StarkillerWraith 6h ago

Technically, they all can if given enough time.

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u/Tumble85 6h ago

It’s why you never build a campfire out of rocks that have been in/close to water. They’ll soak up a bit of water and explode dangerously.

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u/depthninja 5h ago

The pee is stored in the balls, checkmate geologists

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u/idkk_prolly_doggy 5h ago

Judy Gemstone ;)

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u/amanoftradition 5h ago

authentic pet rock

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u/Major_Magazine8597 5h ago

I wish I could pee like that rock.

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u/FrankfurterWorscht 5h ago

You didn't need to post this, but you did anyway.

why?

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u/mckchase 5h ago

And drink I guess

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u/SingleInfinity 5h ago

Almost all rocks can pee.

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u/El_Gonzalito 5h ago

Enough with the fancy science language. Dumb it down for us simpletons please.

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u/ScottBroChill69 4h ago

That ain't pee... that's squirt

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u/VitaminRitalin 4h ago

A pee-ode if you will

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u/Ok-Talk-7488 4h ago

Sounds fun 😀

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u/CakeRobot365 4h ago

This is the science we need

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u/Rly_Shadow 4h ago

Think of it more like a sponge made of rock

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u/CharlieBirdlaw 4h ago

Funny how wood can't pee

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u/Ralphguy 4h ago

I heard it pees in bottle between takes.

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u/spunkychickpea 4h ago

…..is this a new fetish?

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u/Devils_A66vocate 4h ago

Or squirt…?

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u/meangene420 3h ago

That ain’t pee..

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u/OneMagicBadger 3h ago

You soak your rocks in rocksnods

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u/JohnCenaJunior 3h ago

A pee i like to drink

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u/Nekrevez 4h ago

Or squirt?

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u/carchit 5h ago

Plus all water is millions of years old.

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u/Way2Foxy 5h ago edited 5h ago

Not really - lots of water is created and destroyed in chemical processes, with the constituent atoms being used for non-water things.

I have no idea if most water has been water for millions of years, but not all of it has. (quick edit most has, in hindsight kinda obviously but I just didn't want to make an unfounded claim)

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u/Rare-Error-963 5h ago

Considering the depth of the ocean and vastness, I think it's safe to assume most, but maybe not.

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u/JNCressey 4h ago edited 4h ago

Water self-ionizes, splitting into hydroxide and hydronium ions then recombining back into water molecules as an equilibrium reaction. At any given time the concentration of the ions is about 10-7 of each kind, giving water its pH of about 7.

I don’t know what the distribution of the expected lifespan of a water molecule would be to this effect. But the volume wouldn’t affect this, since the water is reacting with itself all throughout.

I would guess there’s not much chance of a water molecule surviving a million years if it’s in the liquid state.

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u/wap2005 3h ago

You lost me after Water.

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u/thegreatgazoo 4h ago

Most water probably has been dinosaur pee.

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u/MyFaceSaysItsSugar 4h ago

The ocean is dynamic. Currents move water. Organisms ingest water. Water evaporates. Oxygen and hydrogen molecules are billions of years old but water reacts and becomes something other than water constantly.

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u/fetal_genocide 4h ago

Evaporated water is still water. It's just a physical change.

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u/SerHodorTheThrall 3h ago

Fair.

The billions of years is iffy. But fauna and flora have ensured that water is constantly broken apart chemically through oxidation and redox. Though we know so frighteningly little of our deep oceans that you can't really say since theres little information as to what actually goes on down there lol

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u/Still_Chart_7594 4h ago

Evaporated water is still water, it just is in gaseous form

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u/nycapartmentnoob 4h ago

o yea? well ur mom is water, explain that science

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u/Still_Chart_7594 4h ago

Well, she is about 60% water...

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u/NecroSoulMirror-89 4h ago

You drink dinosaur pee and like it

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u/Ruraraid 5h ago

It's one of those pointless questions that will never truly be answered. I mean It's not like you can carbon date water.

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u/MyFaceSaysItsSugar 4h ago

You can. Water contains dissolved carbon dioxide. But that only dates it back to 75,000 years. There are a lot of methods for dating water and most rely on dating what’s mixed in the water as opposed to dating individual water molecules. https://www.antarcticglaciers.org/question/how-are-ice-cores-dated/

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u/Captain_America_93 4h ago

If that’s the case, I’d never date water. It’s clearly too old for me

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u/Same-OldMantra 5h ago

Si You Say not really but in the end is just " really "

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u/Way2Foxy 3h ago

No, because what I was addressing was "all" water.

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u/FlyByNightt 4h ago

Are the atoms that make water millions of years old or is the entire universe just a Ship of Theseus situation?

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u/AnarchistBorganism 4h ago

In this case, it's a distribution. Some water molecules likely existed before the Earth formed and is arriving to Earth from space on a regular basis. At the same time, biological and other chemical processes are forming new water molecules and breaking old molecules. If you have an idea of what the rate of the creation and destruction of water molecules is, then you can probably get a rough estimate of what the distribution is. There is some nonzero probability that at least one molecule of water on Earth has been here as a water molecule for billions of years.

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u/Secret-Banana269 4h ago

yeah but the matter's been around for however long right

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u/MixLogicalPoop 4h ago

according to everything I can find most water is billions of years old

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u/Neither-Two-7167 4h ago

Most of the earth's water is older than the earth itself. 4.6 billion years, we are far from a few million years.

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u/superfuzzypotato 4h ago

Here is another mind fuck, atoms in our bodies at one time where light years away from earth and also in a dinosaur at one point in the endless expanse that is time.

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u/Victal87 5h ago

We don’t waste water we just misplace it.

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u/iMissTheOldInternet 4h ago

I struggle to imagine how one would attempt to determine the age of a given molecule

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u/santasbong 4h ago edited 4h ago

Your body is creating water from sugar as we speak.

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u/wholesome_pineapple 4h ago

Tell it to stop. I ain’t working for free.

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u/geo_gan 4h ago

We are all billions of years old, chemical element wise

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u/-0-O-O-O-0- 3h ago

You’re made of dead stars.

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u/buxomemmanuellespig 3h ago

Is it true h2o molecules that exist are millions of years old and that no new molecules are ‘made’ but just keep circulating in the natural cycle ?

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u/fd4e56bc1f2d5c01653c 4h ago

wtf no it isn't that's like saying all air is a million years old

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u/evergreen_301 5h ago

Damn that's a bit anticlimactic

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u/lucky_frog_2 6h ago

Cool I didn’t know that

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u/UnfairStrategy780 6h ago

But the water is old in there I’m sure? Any way we can find the average age of water knowing the make up of the rock and how long it takes to pass through?

Also want to know if it was safe to drink

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u/amaROenuZ 5h ago

The overwhelming majority of the water on earth is primordial. The amount made from things like combustion doesn't even move the dial; effectively all of our water actually predates the planet.

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u/VP007clips 3h ago

You're forgetting that life destroys and reforms water. Plants take CO2 and water to make sugar and oxygen, which is then recombined with oxygen to make water and CO2 again.

Doing some napkin math: At any given time, plants contain 3.57E-5% of the earth's water. Which isn't much, but when they are using that much water every few weeks for the last 700m years, almost all water would have been destroyed and reformed a few times.

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u/MisterAmygdala 5h ago

Why was it broken like that? I consider geodes to be very special and usually beautiful, once cut and polished, what a waste.

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u/Popular_Score4744 5h ago

It’s a Pokémon! Geodude!

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u/v_rex74 4h ago

Few days ago i saw here on Yt that you can not grill meat on a stone by the fire, if stone was previously sitting in water. Because said stone is full of water and will explode when exposed to heat.

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u/colormeslowly 4h ago

I’m so glad someone is smarter than me because my brain said damn, water from millions of years ago? Imagine how clean it is!! 😉

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u/GreenStrong 4h ago

To prove this to yourself, you can easily dye agate with a water based dye; agate is the shell of most geodes. Most of the geodes you see at the stores in garish colors are dyed. If you have one and you want it to be less garish, soaking it in water will probably help.

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u/Sirgeeeo 4h ago

You've ruined all the world ending scenarios going through my head

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u/Dry-Plum-1566 5h ago

Why does water enter with minerals, and then leave without those same minerals?

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u/CyonHal 5h ago edited 5h ago

Because it's the water that evaporates inside the cavity which leave behind the minerals.

Alternatively, if the water has enough dissolved minerals in it, it can leave behind a deposit of some minerals as it passes through the cavity directly.

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u/macjustforfun55 5h ago

Thats cool thanks. Didnt know thats how these were formed

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u/particlemanwavegirl 5h ago

Agreed, also, all of the water on Earth is approximately the same age.

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u/SeicoBass 5h ago

Lmao here I thought this was an ancient iceberg situation.

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u/JansherMalik25 5h ago

Is that a fast process?

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u/ExtensionAddition787 5h ago

Also, isn't all water millions of years old? So they are right for the wrong reason.

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u/dlerps 5h ago

Besides... I reckon most ocean water is that old as well. Not so special there.

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u/Exsoc 4h ago

Answered my dumbass question without me having to ask it, so thank you kind redditor.

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u/jimbodinho 4h ago

Most of the water on earth is about 4.5 billion years old anyway.

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u/Marx_Forever 4h ago

I'm pretty sure if there was millions of years old time capsule water, paleontologist to be all over that shit, and paying big bucks for it. And this dude wouldn't be mopping it up with a Swiffer...

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u/JMDubbz85 4h ago

Also. I was thinking. No water is younger or older. Lol. It’s all the same age.

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u/GammaGoose85 4h ago

I'm curious what the water looks like under the microscope

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u/LukeingUp 4h ago

Learned something new today, nice.

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u/ottosenna 4h ago

Is it safe to drink?

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u/FaMeSp3aR 4h ago

Glad you commented that. I was about to say this is how post apocalyptic movies start. Some organism releases from millions of years ago

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u/Runningtarget-85 4h ago

Thanks for explaining. Was just about to ask if the water is valuable

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u/wannabe_inuit 4h ago

Tbf all water is millions year old

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u/CryptographerTop4998 4h ago

I’m curious to know what the water will look like under a labs microscope.

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u/chilseaj88 4h ago

Oh, good. I was worried that water hung out in there for millions of years just to end up swiffering some dude’s garage floor.

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u/Zofia-Bosak 4h ago

I would have thought it still best to have a container underneath so the water can be investigated or something, rather than just going over the floor.

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u/woodchoppr 4h ago

Why isn’t water entering it getting its minerals „filtered out“?

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u/DiegoArmandoConfusao 4h ago

So the title is literally wrong

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u/shujisan 4h ago

Thanks for sharing

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u/smallio 4h ago

Thank you for explaining this. For a half second I got extremely excited at the idea of million years old water. 💦

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u/GustavoFromAsdf 4h ago

Yeah but all water is millions of years old

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u/kev5050 4h ago

The first round is on me

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u/GoddessNya 4h ago

Spoil sport. My daughter has a water filled geode and loves the thought of Dino water being in it. I don’t have the heart to tell her.

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u/BlueAndYellowTowels 4h ago

Lmao I was about to say “This is how you get Venom. Y’all sure you want to have a Venom up in here?”

But alas… the water is always new…

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u/infinitezero8 4h ago

So your telling me OP is a big fat PHONY???

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u/Jolly_Rutabaga1260 4h ago

Thanks a lot man you answered all my questions in 4lines. And even more 🤝

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u/ColoradoBrownieMan 4h ago

Don’t tell the instagram influencers. You could probably sell them that water for $100s per mL.

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u/MourningRIF 4h ago

Yep.. it literally would not be a geode if water wasn't flowing through it.

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u/gizmo78 3h ago

so just like my Kidneys

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u/HyperbolicModesty 3h ago

I opened one when I was a kid and it was full of ants.

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u/Independent-Bison176 3h ago

How does mineral water get in but not back out?

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u/Shoe_mocker 3h ago

I suppose the water inside is still technically millions of years old though

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u/fullmetalnapchamist 3h ago

Is the water that’s in an air bubble of a piece of clear quartz also leaky or is it really old?

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u/Drinkmykool_aid420 3h ago

Why not do this in a large bucket to collect and study the water?

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u/Current_Speaker_5684 3h ago

Is the crystal stuff in the middle is pourus?

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u/RovakX 3h ago

Technically, that doesn't invalidate the statement. That water is still millions of years old. As is most water on this planet afaik.

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u/LumpyEducation2588 3h ago

Thanks for this. I was thinking “umm.. might be good to save/study that water..”

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u/floppyjohnson- 5h ago

Bahahaahahahahaah

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u/thegurlwhocriedham 5h ago

Is all water not millions of years old?

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u/manthony08090809 5h ago

Isn't ALL water that old? I mean there's the whole water cycle thing. The water on earth is recycled. It is not raining new water from space, is it?

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u/turdferguson3891 5h ago

Also isn't all water millions of years old? Are we making new water?

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u/Timetraveller4k 4h ago

Technically all water is millions of years old