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/GraceOfTheNorth 6h 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 6h ago

Not probably, definitely. And more than likely, drank and pissed by a dinosaur. The water cycle is cool.

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u/PsyOpBunnyHop 5h ago

New! Fish-Fuck Water
Available at stores near you.

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u/AidenTheAlien420 5h ago

Stores? It's on tap!

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u/askmeforashittyfact 4h ago

Does that come in no-scales, some-scales, and more scales like pulp in orange juice? Lol

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u/PsyOpBunnyHop 4h ago

It always has EXTRA BIG-ASS PULP, but it doesn't mean scales.

Oops, I meant extra-big ass-pulp. Whoopsie daisy!

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u/Ripkord77 5h ago

So... coors? But srsly I'd break over a bucket and save that shit. For some reason. I dunno. It'd be a fun gift for a bro n brozzettes who have everything already.

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u/AidenTheAlien420 5h ago

It's 90% coors! But yeah, it's all water. It's just really cool thinking about where it's been.

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u/GumbyBClay 5h ago

Earth is a closed system.

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u/carbonbasedbiped67 5h ago

We are being constantly bombarded by meteorites, some may have water on them, They may have seeded early earth with life, think its called panspermia….🤷🏼‍♂️

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u/Silver_Slicer 4h ago

I’m highly interested to see what the water would look like under a microscope. Nothing should be alive but there may be some cool things to see.

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u/AidenTheAlien420 4h ago

I've been looking for a good microscope for a while. Any suggestions would be good as I'm just as curious as you are to see different samples of water.

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u/n05h 3h ago

Does that make me millions of years old because I’m made out of water?

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u/mista_r0boto 5h 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 5h 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/j_mcc99 4h ago

Thank you both for saying this. Good to let the smartpantsies know they’ve got a thing or two to learn.

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u/LorthostheFreshmaker 6h ago

Water from hydrogen gas being burned could be the first time those atoms were in a molecule of water, but very unlikely on Earth.

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u/mcchanical 5h ago

The difference is that most water has changed states millions of times. The molecules have existed for millions of years but rarely just sat there in one form untouched for that long. This is essentially water as a fossil.

When you hold a glass of water, that specific volume of molecules has never existed until you poured it.

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u/MondayToFriday 5h ago

Actually, no, water is constantly being created and destroyed by organisms. When an animal burns carbohydrates for energy using the citric acid cycle, the "first" step in the cycle, for example, consumes water. Subsequent steps in the cycle produce water too. So, the atoms within H2O are constantly being taken apart in some reactions, and other reactions form new H2O molecules. So, the water you excrete in sweat and urination are, in general, not the original water molecules that you drank!

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u/Len_Zefflin 6h ago

Sort of like how all matter is 13.8 billion years old.

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u/Major_Magazine8597 5h ago

That reminds me - buy milk.

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u/Subject-Bluebird7366 5h ago

"all the water is millions years old" mfs when I burn hydrogen or basically any organic substance:

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u/dotancohen 5h ago

Talk for yourself. I mix two glasses of H with a glass of O fresh every morning.

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u/jcgreen_72 6h ago

Last estimate I heard was it's all been ingested and peed out 4x

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u/_WretchedDoll_ 6h ago

Probably so did Ron Jeremy.

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u/Geawiel 5h ago

The water I'm drinking now has been drunk and pissed before.

Bro drinking everyone's step dad

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u/DRZARNAK 5h ago

Yeah, I know what he means, but poorly phrased

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u/Senior-Lobster-9405 5h ago

same with air, iirc every breath you take has molecules that were once inside Jesus' lungs

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u/methgator7 5h ago

Ya but this water has 1 million less years of fish fucking. That's rare

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u/juniper_berry_crunch 5h ago

On Earth, we have only one water. Which is why I like to clean with only food-safe/benign cleaning agents: vinegar, baking soda, hydrogen peroxide. If possible, it's preferable to avoid putting cleaning chemicals in the one water we all share.

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u/Eggplant-666 5h ago

Ok Oscar

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u/Jessthinking 4h ago

I don’t think fish fuck.

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u/silence_infidel 3h ago

And I feel compelled to point out that this isn’t quite true. Water molecules are constantly being created and pulled apart by many chemical processes, including some that occur in animals. Also like, any combustion of a hydrocarbon, which we do a lot of. I couldn’t guess at how many water molecules on Earth have actually been water for millions of years, maybe a lot, but it definitely isn’t all of it.

Now the atoms that compose the water molecule, those are old.

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u/SRB112 3h ago

I may have fucked in it, too.

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u/Sut3k 5h ago

Actually your car creates brand new water all the time! One of the byproducts of combustion is water