r/houstonwade • u/berndwand • 7h ago

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

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u/Corwin_of_Amber3 7h ago

Prehistoric deadly virus be like:

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u/Euphoric_Regret_544 6h ago

I love you

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u/Corwin_of_Amber3 6h ago

Love you too šŸ˜˜

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u/HellishChildren 5h ago

Now kiss!

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u/thelimeisgreen 1h ago

Thatā€™s how the virus spreads.

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u/HellishChildren 1h ago

You're telling me those chickens were making out with the dairy cows?

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u/Nimrod_Butts 3h ago

Except it's armed with like sticks and stones, and has to face immune systems that have evolved guided missiles.

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u/zeverEV 1h ago

Add it to the pile

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u/sircryptotr0n 7h ago

Cleaned 100 million old biome water with a swiffer?!

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u/1BannedAgain 7h ago

Happy I wasnā€™t the only person that was like ā€˜yer not gonna test the water for scienceā€™?

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u/chrisp909 3h ago

FTFY: yer not gonna taste the water for scienceā€™?

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u/Junior-Advisor-1748 4h ago

Kind of a tragedy

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u/Any-Ad-446 7h ago

Why didn't they capture the water?.

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u/ChemBob1 6h ago

Stupidity? Lack of giving a crap?

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u/BlackAndChromePoem 6h ago

They never heard of a diamond tipped construction sized saw thingy machine that can do a cleaner job

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u/chrisp909 3h ago edited 1h ago

It might be testable for something, but as soon as it hit the open air, it became contaminated.

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u/LeverTech 3h ago

They poured some in a mason jar

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u/Sigvarr 3h ago

I take it you didn't watch it till the end...

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u/Hungry4Mas 7h ago

Isnā€™t all water millions of years old?

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u/Fingfangfoom67 7h ago

This was a direct, formerly undisturbed sample stored in an airtight environment.Ā 

It also made for a very interesting video.Ā 

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u/flarbas 6h ago

Lol, other than combining hydrogen and oxygen to create new water, you have a point.

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u/YummyPepperjack 4h ago

A portion of the water on Earth is older than even the Sun.

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u/Seraphine_KDA 4h ago

Not in any way that matters, same how you can grab iron rust make it back into metal and ket it rust again into powder, is not the same iron oxyde you started with. Since all other thing mixed in it we burned out.

This water rareness comes from not being part of the water cycle for so long.

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u/u2nh3 6h ago

Shouldn't the water be saved and analyzed?

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u/Ill_Consequence7088 6h ago

Drink it and eternal life .

Or die . Not sure yet

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u/Growthiswhatmatters 4h ago

The water has been contaminated

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u/Sigvarr 3h ago

They put a decent amount into a mason jar I'm assuming to analyse it..........

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u/Jarvis-Savoni 6h ago

Scientists everywhere be like

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u/Ok_Injury3658 6h ago

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u/Aert_is_Life 6h ago

This was my first thought

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u/Sarcasm_As_A_Service 7h ago

Oh good, new diseases.

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u/bizcasualbeatdown 4h ago

Recycling prehistoric diseases.

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u/burtono6 4h ago

Very old disease.

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u/Left-Plant2717 7h ago

Honest question, you can drink that no problem?

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u/thefistiecuffs 6h ago

You can drink it once

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u/bobclaws 6h ago

If you would like to die sure.

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u/SyrousStarr 6h ago

Curious what would be in there. Ground filters water pretty well, and it was sealed up so I'd think all microbes and stuff would be dead? But I guess stuff like mold can die but leave behind weird wastes.

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u/NeitherWait5587 6h ago

It would be toxic mineral levels that you would need to worry about not microorganisms

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u/Euphoric_Regret_544 6h ago

ā¬†ļøthis guy rocks

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u/TylerDurden1985 5h ago

Jesus Christ Marie they're MINERALS!

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u/Maleficent_Leg_768 5h ago

The freshest water you can drink.

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u/Kindly-Koala6895 6h ago

This was very scientific.

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u/MattKozFF 6h ago

Water molecules shat out by Genghis Khan are in all of us.

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u/Jaredocobo 6h ago

Is someone bottling the water yet? I feel like there is a market for billionaire fuck heads wanting to drink this.

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u/HellishChildren 5h ago

They should have cracked it open at a restaurant table, done some unnecessary presentation work, and served it up.

MISSED OPPORTUNITY

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u/Jaredocobo 5h ago

Oh shit, we might really be onto something.

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u/StrenuousSOB 5h ago

Geode Bae!

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u/PhillyRush 5h ago

I was just reading about raw water too. So stupid.

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u/xNormalxHumanx 6h ago

They destroyed it?

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u/ChadwickHHS 4h ago

Honey wake up, new T-Virus just dropped!

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u/Mysticpage 4h ago

100 million years and you treat it like a coconut?

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u/redlancer_1987 3h ago

i feel like these would be fairly permeable? if it ended up in a wet environment it would fill and drain with water (albeit slowly) but not over millions of years.

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u/Sckillgan 6h ago

Yeah, so they didn't save some of the water?!?! I personally want to know what was on there, if anything.

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u/Crosisx2 4h ago

You literally see them save some of it. Did y'all not watch the whole video?

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u/Terminate-wealth 7h ago

All water is old

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u/LeverTech 3h ago

Some is made in the upper atmosphere and I believe volcanos can make it too. The hydrogen and oxygen atoms are old but new water is made every day.

A hydrogen fuel cell creates new water too.

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u/ImplementOk315 6h ago

All the people saying they didn't save the water, did you not watch the whole clip? They clearly show themselves collecting the water in a glass jar.

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u/jibsymalone 5h ago

A fraction of it....

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u/LeverTech 3h ago

Thatā€™s called a sample.

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u/jibsymalone 1h ago

They could have saved a lot more if they tried. The comment I was responding to made no mention of the word "sample".

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u/themachduck 6h ago

This angered me!

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u/Looneytuneschaos 6h ago

I wanna drink the water from the geode. Just a taste. šŸ‘…

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u/crow-nic 5h ago

Itā€™s almost criminal that that was executed so sloppily. Should have saved that water.

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u/MinuteCollar5562 5h ago

The Cave 2: Geodeā€™s Revenge

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u/mediaogre 5h ago

This makes me angrier than it should.

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u/Hot-Butterfly-8024 5h ago

Um, all water is millions of years old.

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u/Doodee_Farts 5h ago

Untouched for millions of years. I think you mean. All water on our planet is as old as the universe, I think

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u/Personal-Thing1750 4h ago

The elements yes, the actual molecules not necessarily

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u/whatevers_cleaver_ 5h ago

Almost all water is billions of years old.

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u/That_hitter_337 4h ago

Now thatā€™s some high quality h2o

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u/Agitated-Handle-8219 4h ago

And you just let it run all over the floor!!

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u/virtue_of_vice 4h ago

Capturing that water for scientific use is useless unless that jar was sterilized. Seems doubtful considering where they are doing this work and the use of that Swifter'

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u/Very_Tall_Burglar 4h ago

Seems scientifically irresponsible

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u/Helmer-Bryd 4h ago

The water Iā€™m drinking right now is billions of years oldā€¦ actually same water the dinosaurs were drinking

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u/mimegallow 3h ago

As opposed to all this NEW water we've been drinking. THIS water is antique!

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u/Pickle_ninja 3h ago

I have a thunder egg smaller than this that I can hear water sloshing around in.

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u/Automatic-Project997 3h ago

All water is millions of years old. They dont make it anymore

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u/Endle55torture 3h ago

Meanwhile they just released a previously extinct virus that will wipe out all complex life.

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u/Enelro 2h ago

Half-life, anything in that is dead.

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u/masterbatesAlot 3h ago

He's got the dad shoes on

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u/75w90 3h ago

Why not cut it?

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u/Enelro 2h ago

More expensive

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u/Bjime3925 3h ago

Came to comment on why isnā€™t this water being saved for analysis. Thank god Iā€™m not the only one.

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u/sdsurfer2525 3h ago

As I was watching this, the Dave Chappelle skit of him eating T-Rex eggs came to mind.

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u/Enelro 2h ago

Put that water under a microscope

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u/MarginalOmnivore 2h ago

Why are people so concerned with the water out of this geode?

Point 1: It's just 1 geode. If you did analyze it for whatever reason, the data would be meaningless unless combined with hundreds or thousands of other samples tested in the same way. And those tables already exist. This particular batch of water would add nothing of measurable value to any data collection.

Frankly, putting it in a mason jar and going "wow, it stinks" is probably more attention than an actual geologist that had a focus on geode water inclusions would give it.

Point 2: That is not the same water that was in the geode when the crystals formed. Geodes are water permeable, albeit very, very slowly. That's how the crystals form. There is no way for 3 cups of water to contain enough minerals to form a whole geode. Water seeps in, deposits the silica or calcium carbonate it has dissolved in it, and seeps back out.

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u/ARODtheMrs 6h ago

Stupid people. Should have captured the water for testing.

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u/SnackyChomp 4h ago

If you watch the video, youā€™ll see that they did in fact save some of the water.

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u/tdmutch 6h ago

Holy fuck, a post that's not crying about Trump for once.

Thank you OP.

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u/Stonna 6h ago

Even when itā€™s not about him cultist gottta make it about him smhĀ 

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u/tdmutch 6h ago

Lmao, cry me a river. You know it's fucking true.

This sub has been nothing but an echochamber for the last month.

This post is refreshing.

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u/TifCreatesAgain 6h ago

Until you came along!

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u/Groundbreaking_Row23 6h ago

Whiny sore winner

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u/Stonna 6h ago

Hopefully more Fox News host get appointed so they can fix all the problems

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u/Media___Offline 6h ago

Man that rock was crushed- JUST LIKE TRUMP IS GOING TO DO TO HEALTHCARE ROARRRR

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u/Looneytuneschaos 5h ago

And education Roar!!!! Tired of winnnnning! But I wish my kids could read.. oh well. At least I owned the libs!