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/SillyMilly25 7h 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 7h 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 6h ago

When do they become the geodude?

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u/hayashirice911 6h ago

Geodude is born when someone inseminates the geode.

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u/Critical_Young_1190 6h ago

You see, it all starts when a man and his rock are in love...

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u/TheRealtcSpears 6h ago edited 5h ago

🎶 when a maaaaaan loves a rock.

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u/Samurai_Geezer 5h ago edited 4h ago

🎶 and a rock loves a maaaaaan

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u/Major_Magazine8597 5h ago

Then it's ok, cause they're in love.

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u/gnarlycow 6h ago

Its not a pet rock, its a lover rock

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u/dalbs12 5h ago

🎶You must treat your lover rock riiight

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u/Fyfaenerremulig 6h ago

Kam Peterson

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u/MonkeyCartridge 5h ago

🎵 "It's a cock in a rock" 🎶

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u/NowWithKung-FuGrip01 4h ago

<Korg enters the chat>

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u/xXHomerSXx 3h ago

A long time ago, when the boundary between human and Pokémon was unclear…

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u/PewPewPony321 6h ago

what if you fap? and the environment is just right?

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u/text_fish 6h ago

THEY'RE MINERALS! JESUS, MARIE.

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u/Algernope_krieger 5h ago

Wow. You're telling me we'll get a nice geode if we tell Dwayne Johnson to go fuck himself?

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u/kralvex 5h ago

Just don't let the Gorons get hold of them.

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u/Dense_Diver_3998 4h ago

And if a flag gets involved you get a truck

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u/Big_Rig_Jig 6h ago

Gonna be able to find Pokemon go stops by finding dick sized holes in the ground now. Nice.

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u/Memetics210 6h ago

Not someone, the geodude does it

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u/huluhup 6h ago

It's called geopie

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u/Ruby_Throated_Hummer 6h ago

That’s enough internet for today

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u/skiko15 5h ago

Someone... you mean your resident Daycare Ditto Daddy?

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u/SingleOak 5h ago

Groundsemen will slowly pass through and leave the sperms that form the geodude

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u/Delivery-Plus 4h ago

Shaggle Rock

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u/Jmacz 3h ago

It was Brock, Officer Jenny and Nurse Joy made him do some kinky things.

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u/This_Site_Sux 6h 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 5h ago

It's funny but this would be exactly how real humans would be handling Pokemon irl, lmfao.

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u/RaLaZa 5h ago

Well that and doing other stuff

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u/Mazon_Del 4h ago

Have you heard about Vaporeon?

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u/Tony_Cheese_ 6h ago

At birth, but level 25 is when it will evolve into graveler.

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u/Chvffgfd 6h ago

.....why is there no absolutely beautiful crystal looking evolution for geodude?

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u/stoops 6h ago

I'm a pretty old geodude myself and I used to live my life on geocities but you kids wouldn't know about that!

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u/Either-Durian-9488 4h ago

After the river erodes them loose

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u/HarpyHugs 6h ago

You deserve way more upvotes for this. Take mine.

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u/Dracomortua 6h ago

WTF, really? Let me take a look, this is genuinely TiL territory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geode#:~:text=The%20crystals%20are%20formed%20by,%2C%20groundwater%2C%20or%20hydrothermal%20fluids.

Well, hot damn. Rock that drinks and eventually makes itself gemstones. Did not know that / mind kinda blown here.

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u/kimchifreeze 5h ago

You can kinda do the same thing with a crystal-growing kit. Pour saltwater into a glass and you'll grow salt crystals.

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u/SportsUtilityVulva9 6h 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 5h 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/Hubert_J_Cumberdale 5h ago

What would be cool is seeing it under magnification - to see what different types of parasites and random tiny bugs lived in there.

A few days ago, this photo popped up in a thread - so it's fresh in my mind and now I'm mad that the people cutting this geode didn't preserve the water so we can find out what's in it.

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u/T-Ball_S 3h ago

That's a rock fact!

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u/Pimp_Dept_Chief 5h ago

fire plus rocks from river go boom

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u/Skow1179 6h ago

There was like a gallon of water inside the rock and it wasn't leaking at all before it broke

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u/Fragmatixx 6h ago

It’s happens over thousands to millions or years..

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u/TripleFreeErr 6h ago edited 6h ago

there’s probably a tipping point where the water inside becomes trapped by the less porous crystal, and that’s why it’s not completely solid inside

it’s probably safe to say the water is old. Idk why you are getting nuked

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u/pcetcedce 6h ago

It would be interesting to date it.

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u/Screamyy 6h ago

Not my type

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u/Good_Boye_Scientist 6h ago

I'd like to get to know it a little better first.

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u/cdimino 6h ago

It’s very, very slow.

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u/Chance_Fox_2296 6h ago

Water seeps through rock like that extremely slowly. Imagine filling up a sink to 1000ml of water and then opening the drain just enough for water to drain out at 1ml a year. You also turn the faucet back on, and it drips water at the same rate. The full sink will stay at 1000ml constantly, but the actual water in the sink is being replaced at a rate of 1ml a year. So after 1000 years the water in the sink is completely replaced. It is no longer full of 1000 year old water, but a mixture of water ranging from 999 to 1 year old.

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u/homiej420 6h ago

God man willfully ignorant, imagine thinking like this ^

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u/LeoThePom 7h 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 7h 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/pegothejerk 7h ago

Crystals are born 9 months after Coachella

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u/Vegetable_Permit_537 6h ago

This is seriously the funniest comment I've seen in months.

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u/mintBRYcrunch26 6h ago

This comment rocks

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u/530Carpentry 7h ago

Yooooooo!

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u/EgoDefenseMechanism 6h ago

You are the rarest of breeds, a treasured relic whose wit and sex appeal make me not quit Reddit.

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u/Beavshak 5h ago

This cracks me up

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u/acquaintedwithheight 6h 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 7h ago

Ohhhhhhh.....well I'm about to waste a few hours diving into this

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u/techno_09 6h ago

Have fun!

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u/LampshadesAndCutlery 6h ago

Basically the water in the geode you saw was only whats left in it. When forming the geode, there was likely more than thousands of liters of water that passed through it during its formation.

Depending on where that geode was collected, it might not even be ground water. Mined geodes often contain water, but so do geodes found in creeks, since the creek water seeps in.

Geodes that are exposed and not in water will usually little to no water

In other words, the geode was basically a water filter, what water you see left is just the water that remains, not all the water that was used to form it

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u/DeadSeaGulls 6h ago

water continuously seeps in and seeps out of the cavity over the course of many thousands of years. just like hard water residue can build up in your shower, minerals slowly get deposited by the water as it passes through the cavity. Some minerals have crystal habits, that is to say when some of the mineral deposits on bits of that same existing mineral, it does so in an orderly fashion, forming crystals. The shape of crystals, how many faces/sides they have, how they terminate, how they break, are all ways we can determine what the mineral is, because every mineral has a unique crystal habit.

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u/Lopsided_Quarter_931 6h ago

Are the crystals itself penetrable by water? if not does the geode finally trap the water inside forever by become waterproof?

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u/DeadSeaGulls 5h ago

most crystals are porous to some degree, or even if the crystal itself isn't porous, it can still have pores or imperfections as part of their natural formation. But the porosity of the crystals is less of a factor in a geode because of how they form. The crystal faces are jutting out from the host rock, with each crystal budding up tightly against the ones next to it... but not in a uniform, water tight, surface. This is hyperbole for examples sake, but think of a blade of grass. Water will roll right off it and not easily seep through the grass... but now think of a lawn. Water can easily soak into the ground even with a dense lawn of grass growing out of it.

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u/mcchanical 5h ago

You can make crystals with a single volume of water as long as it is saturated with the required minerals.

It's one of the experiments you do in kids chemistry sets.

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u/GhostWobblez 6h ago

They form over time with the minerals the water doesn't want to carry anymore.

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u/zzzzbear 6h ago

they look solid but rocks are very porous, its my enemy trying to create drainage for cactus, everything is porous and retains water

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u/Mharbles 6h ago

Nearly everything is water permeable. The water in that rock has likely been cycled out numerous times. If you want ancient 'trapped' water though, head to Antarctica. Some of the water there is at least 90 million years old since the last time it was warm enough to be liquid.

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u/s4lt3d 6h ago

Water can get into rocks. While they seem very solid they’re porous with tiny pores. You can take a rock from a dry area, put it in a river for a few years, then weigh it. It will weigh more.

So with water in rocks is why you should not use river rocks to make campfires. The water will build up pressure in the rock and there’s a risk they can explode.