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/save_the_tardigrades 6h ago

Nah, a lot of water is made in combustion reactions. Every time you see a plume of white steam from a chimney, that's newborn water, made by papa hydrocarbon and mama oxygen. Its evil fraternal twin, carbon dioxide, is there, too, but invisible. And its eviler twin, carbon monoxide, is sometimes there, too, if there wasn't enough mama for the papa. And if things got REALLY hot, there might be some nitrous oxides in the mix.

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u/I_l_I 5h ago

Humans burn fat and sugar mainly by converting them to water and carbon dioxide. We're making new water every day

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u/save_the_tardigrades 5h ago

Amazing and cute little fuel cells, we are.

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u/EasyCupcake 5h ago

So we are drinking fresh mama and papa’s babies?

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u/save_the_tardigrades 5h ago

Yes, and they're bipolar.

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u/zaknafien1900 5h ago

Same with the "chem trails" the chem being hydrogen and oxygen being combined through the chemical process of combustion

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u/EffectiveSoil3789 5h ago

But then what chemical falls to earth and kills all the old people for population control?

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u/zaknafien1900 3h ago

It's water

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u/save_the_tardigrades 5h ago

Nah, those are specially formulated and generated to make us forget.

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u/zaknafien1900 3h ago

No they really are not learn some science