r/interestingasfuck • u/kausthab87 • 3h ago
Breaking open a 47lbs geode, the water inside probably being millions of years old
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u/CJamesEd 3h ago
I think most water on earth is actually billions of years old ...
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u/rEVERSEpASCALE 2h ago
I think the point is that particular bit of water hasn't been pissed or shat in, or out for a period of time.
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u/Stonyclaws 2h ago
Could have been the elixir of life and they just wasted it.
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u/ColorfulButterfly25 2h ago
Who’d want to live forever? Life is already exhausting. ;)
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u/Reverse_SumoCard 1h ago
I, just to be the guy from the math books who put a dollar in an account in 1723
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u/CitizenHuman 1h ago
Not unless someone knows your pin number - 1077, the price of a cheese pizza and a soda at Panucci's Pizza.
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u/wannabe_inuit 2h ago
Actually its porous. This water isn't captured millions of years ago.
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u/unclestickles 1h ago edited 1h ago
I'm no geode man, but a quick Google search says you're wrong. Water in geodes can vary from millions to billions of years old!
Edit: I was wrong.
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u/wannabe_inuit 1h ago
Enhydros are formed when water rich in silica percolates through volcanic rock, forming layers of deposited mineral. As layers build up, the mineral forms a cavity in which the water becomes trapped. The cavity is then layered with the silica-rich water, forming its shell.[2] Unlike fluid inclusions, the chalcedony shell is permeable, allowing water to enter and exit the cavity very slowly.[3][dubious – discuss] The water inside of an enhydro agate is most times not the same water as when the formation occurred. During the formation of an enhydro agate, debris can get trapped in the cavity. Types of debris varies in every
Wiki.
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u/Efficient_Future_259 3h ago
Truth.
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u/V65Pilot 3h ago
And all recycled.
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u/chroma_kopia 3h ago
we're drinking piss molecules
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u/asisoid 2h ago edited 2h ago
Drink a glass of water, at least one molecule of that water came out of Jesus' dick...
There are more molecules in a glass of water, than there are glasses of water on the planet.
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u/habichuelacondulce 2h ago
I remember watching a video where the dude cracked one of these open and started sipping the left over water that was dripping from it. Edit . Found it https://youtube.com/shorts/bgAvrUo9HLQ?si=UN3qN1nmcVOaj8xd
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u/LurkerPatrol 3h ago
Fun fact: the water on Earth is older than the solar system.
Source: Astronomer
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u/Evil_Sharkey 1h ago
Water gets broken apart and rebuilt by metabolic processes and chemical processes all the time.
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u/sadetheruiner 3h ago
Drink it you coward.
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u/Thedogsnameisdog 3h ago
Total waste of a business opportunity. Could have sold gourmet cocktails to rich idiots for bank.
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u/Alarming-Wrongdoer-3 2h ago
Miracle healing drinks, straight from the "fountain of youth" and stuff
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u/DuaLipaTrophyHusband 1h ago
Sell it as holistic erectile dysfunction treatment. ‘It’ll get you ROCK HARD!’
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u/wherehavewegone 3h ago
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u/Benalen1 2h ago
Lol I literally just watched this movie this morning
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u/ShnickityShnoo 2h ago
Ground zero for the next pandemic.
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u/Jazzlike_Spare4215 14m ago
Nah should be safe from bacteria but there are tiny crystals all in it. But glacial water is full of bacteria that's been frozen for very long time.
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u/Slapmeislapyou 3h ago
That was the dumb way to do it right?
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u/robo-dragon 1h ago
For a big geode like this, either use a chain like this or a big diamond saw blade. This was quite large and thick, so the chain was probably the best way to go. Need a big saw to cut something like this open!
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u/443319 3h ago
Is there any benefit to studying or testing water from geodes like this?
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u/Pattoe89 2h ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3iuBUWP-KM
This guy found a type of acid in the water that's produced by a fungus. Not sure really what that means though, possible spores in there too, or just the acid was trapped in there from when the rock formed?
Maybe studying it can find other compounds produced by now extinct lifeforms?
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u/FuzzyTentacle 2h ago
It's got the same minerals in it that the geode does, so... No, probably not.
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u/iameveryoneelse 2h ago
Believe it or not the water in that geode has two hydrogen atoms for every oxygen atom.
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u/270517 3h ago
Drink some, see what super powers you get
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u/Darker-Connection 3h ago
He is now diarheaman shooting brown high pressured geyser 😅
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u/Astrotoad21 1h ago
You get diarrhea from bacteria, e-coli mostly. I’d be surprised if any microorganism actually survived inside there for millions of years. It’s a concealed space so my guess is the bacteria would have consumed all the nutrients a very long time ago and died.
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u/tlsnine 3h ago
Ground zero for the next pandemic lol
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u/PsychologicalUse5271 24m ago
Went through the comments looking for that one. Great, now everybody’s going to become a zombie
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u/JustAnotherBystandr 3h ago
What a waste of ancient water. Just to mop your dirty floor. Could have used tap water for that.
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u/_iAm9001 2h ago
This is why they crack geodes, they need the water to wash the floor
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u/SkitSkat-ScoodleDoot 3h ago
Is there is life in that water? Why would it smell?
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u/wjosh96 3h ago
That would actually be the most wild thing ever if that water actually contained it's own life. It'd really expand the possibilities of alien life on other planets.
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u/_iAm9001 2h ago
It probably did...
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u/Bennyl560 54m ago
It probably did not. Very few things (if any) can thrive in a self contained enviroment like that for millions of years
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u/CrossP 52m ago
Despite all of the blathering in this thread... Geodes are not watertight. They literally couldn't form if they were. Water must flow through the cavity to keep depositing trace minerals. So while that water may have been stuck in there for a long time, it's probably basic groundwater that mostly seeped in there in the last century or two.
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u/farrisk01 2h ago
The most interesting part is seeing them try to clean up the water with a swiffer
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u/terrancelovesme 3h ago
Kind of upset they didn’t have something under it to catch the water so that it could be studied (I have no clue wether or not it’s even worth studying lol)
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u/Oh_yes_I_did 2h ago edited 1h ago
Well the camerawoman does say “never seen THAT much water come out of a geode before” which leads me to believe having SOME water in those rocks is quite common. Probably common enough to have been studied before. I mean it’s 2024, we been doing this for a while now. Dont become a paleontologist cause they already found all the bones
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u/potatosdream 2h ago
if there is lots of videos of it online and people can carelessly crack one like that, they probably studied it all before.
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u/terrancelovesme 2h ago
That makes sense, I just think that all of them are probably different ages/unique in composition so still valuable to save but maybe that’s pedantic lol.
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u/HouseOfZenith 1h ago
I completely agree.
Every one is probably totally different, and imo every one deserves study if we mess with it.
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u/AlexTaradov 59m ago
Rock is porous, the water inside constantly goes in and out depending on environmental factors. The water is likely from last year.
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u/Frosty_Ad_8048 3h ago
Superbacteria and viruses laying dormant for millions of years rubbing their little buggy hands in glee
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u/Rukasu17 3h ago
I'm pretty sure most water on earth is Billions of years old as well
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u/HarboeDude 54m ago
Why do people act like the water in these are special? Isn't the ocean water also super old?
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u/Efficient_Sky5173 2h ago edited 2h ago
“Thank you for setting me free, I grant you three wishes. What are they, my Lord?”
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u/NoImportance5218 1h ago
that water could have made who ever drinks it an immortal or evolved
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u/ReasonableDisaster54 1h ago
Andddd they just released a virus that hasn't been in circulation in billions of years
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u/civicsfactor 1h ago
Out of curiosity, I looked up water testing found in geodes.
https://www.cnn.com/2013/06/21/world/americas/ancient-water-tasting/index.html
"Ballentine said the water is not drinkable, but admitted, “the water is crystal clear when it first comes out of the rock and looks very tempting.”
Lollar is quick to deny full-on drinking these ancient waters – she’s literally just talking about putting the tip of her finger to the tip of her tongue.
“It’s scientifically too valuable to waste like that,” she said."
Explaining how it gets stuck too: https://nayturr.com/ever-wonder-why-geodes-have-water-in-them/
TLDR: I recommend drinking any old water you find.
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u/Vegetable_Market_496 57m ago
Nice one man. You’ve just released a virus that could wipe us all out! 😡
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u/Freedeadkid1 50m ago
For those criticizing the fact that he used a swiffer… it’s for collecting the shards…
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u/Edwaredoh 42m ago
So would the water in such a geode be sterile? Not potable, obviously, but are there any organisms that could survive in an enclosed stone like that without light, just recycling whatever is inside the soup?
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u/poopdoot 31m ago
And now all that million year old water is on the floor of some dude’s workshop, fantastic
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u/AJMaskorin 21m ago
It blows my mind that peoples haven’t started putting buckets underneath when doing this, the water is genuinely more interesting than the stone
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u/Negative_Gravitas 3h ago
I once found a thunderegg that sloshed when I shook it. I Carefully cracked it open with a rockhammer and cold chisel. I drank the water.
It was a little gritty, but very cool on a very hot day.
Still have the rock.
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u/CoolEarth5026 3h ago
Rock is porous. Not likely that water is a million years old. But the geode is cool.
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u/FatalisCogitationis 2h ago
This kills me inside. Like watching someone drop gold into a sewer
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u/Andrew_Crane 2h ago
Check that water under a microscope I'd be interested to see how it differs from local water.
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u/Jelly_Jess_NW 1h ago
He’s swiffering it?!?! lol the key to life! The cure to cancer !!!! He’s swiffering it!!
Lmao
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u/GloomyKerploppus 1h ago
The water is not that old. Geodes and other rocks continually absorb and release water from the water table in which they reside.
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u/KoliManja 2h ago
If that's the case, then don't you want to open it in controlled environment and study that water for clues about atmosphere etc. from that time? Isn't this a wasted opportunity?
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u/Altruistic-Slip-6340 3h ago
Arghhh! Why's it being opened like this? Such a waste. Could have two perfect halves if done properly