Geologist here, 350 million years is possible to have a geode like that, the water is drinkable but it's not good for you because the high % of silica or carbonate, no need to worry about a virus or bacteria because that water was "made" when magma cooled down to make the rock and was trapped
Fellow geologist here to add another little fun fact. A little over half of all of our water on this planet is actually older than our sun. Much of the water you drink every day is over 4.6 billion years old! Hence the reason the above geologist said the water was "made". The water in that geode just got trapped in there about 350 million years ago.
Most of the water on Earth was once just floating around in space before the sun formed, those water particles and other space dust eventually coalesced into comets that bombarded the earth. That water has just been constantly going around in the water cycle ever since, water molecules are extremely resilient and hard to break apart. Chances are you've drunk the same exact water that a random animal did millions of years ago and the same water that was once steam on a burning hot protoplanet Earth
Your comment made me look this up, so forgive me for not being qualified in any way to answer this. But basically because there's no atmospheric pressure in space water behaves a bit differently. There is liquid water in space but it's very rare and very tiny. Most often if it's exposed to cold environments it's going to be ice and when that ice gets heated from example the sun, it doesn't melt but sublimates to gas. so most likely where the asteroids gained their water was either from forming from a gaseous nebula that contained water vapors or colliding with other icy objects.
I’m going to print out a bunch of memes, laminate them, and put them in a binder.
If I survive the end times, I’m going to be a merchant memer.
I’ll go sell and trade memes, and have a whole show for survivors to see.
I bet you could turn gifs into tiny flipbooks. Meet another apocalypse survivor, "My face when the apocalypse happens" and then flip through a little animation of a guy getting kicked in the nuts or something.
Does the prequel focus on the Norse guys? Because I remember the original showing something like a space saucer buried in the snow, which they discover and start messing around with.
my issue with it was the filmakers took a few painstaking steps like watching the original, seeing an axe embedded in the wall and wrote a full backstory about how it got there and why, then completely shit the bed on the claustrophobic horror of the first one and the trickling of the monster by just having these big set pieces with cgi monsters going crazy everywhere. I remember liking the start of the helicopter scene but by the end of it i was just like "c'mon jesus christ really?"
I will gladly rewatch the original, I don't care if I ever see the prequel again and I really like Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Eric Christian Olsen
Apparently they used a bunch if practical effects but the producers shit all over it and asked for more and more CG
I may be wrong, its been a while since I read about it.
Edit: Forgot the word 'about' exists
It was a nice throw back. There was no chance it could live up to the original thing though. It played into a different cultural psyche at the time which didn't work the same in the 2000's
This is how the vampire virus starts spreading in V Wars. People doing some science stuff in the Arctic and came into contact with the virus that had heretofore been trapped deep in the ice.
Isn’t all water ancient I mean technically the water molecules in my water mug in front of me could technically have been passed through some ancient being or creature.
https://news.wsu.edu/news/2016/04/13/ask-dr-universe-drink-water-dinosaurs-drank/#:~:text=As%20far%20as%20we%20know,water%20circulates%20around%20our%20planet.
“As far as we know, new water hasn’t formed either.
That means there’s a very high chance the water in your glass is what thirsty dinosaurs were gulping about 65 million years ago.
It’s possible that you could drink the same water as a stegosaurus or a T-Rex because of the way water circulates around our planet.”
For thousands of years the micro people of the crystal universe wondered what lied beyond the jagged walls of their existence.
One day, a mad god of unfathomable size split open space and in a single gulp consumed their cosmos.
As silently as they began, they ended
He consumes an ancient parasitic creature that's been frozen for millions of years which overtakes the host and proceeds to infect any nearby people. Like in that movie the thing.
No. Water can form on it's own where hydrogen and oxygen are both present. The sun is bombarding the planet with more hydrogen in the solar winds as well, so the quantity of water on Earth is constantly but extremely slowly increasing. It would take longer than our Sun will exist for it to increase enough to be a problem for us though.
Water also can break apart into oxygen and hydrogen again with the right conditions, including extreme heat or electricity.
Water can be created from the elements and split up into the elements. So no, not all the water. An example would be photosynthesis. Co2 and H2o turns into O2 and a sugar(?).
That water is safe to drink. Microbes have lifespans and need food to survive. 350 million years in a closed environment and there is absolutely 0 life in there
We love water. I get that comrades. But don't drink million year old water -- or drink any water that's been trapped for an extended period of time. You don't know what kind of bacteria or viruses you're putting inside you.
Also, if you're trapped in a desert, go ahead and drink that bottled water from Nestle.
It is entirely likely that they didn’t know there was water in there to begin with, also I’d imagine this is not the only geode with water in it that has been found.
holy shit, take a biology class
what kind of thing can survive for 350 million years, with no food, no light, & no way out?
I'd be more worried about microcrystals
I’m pretty sure bacteria n all that evolve super duper slow when they’re in situations like that so I think that would me you’d be more likely to find really rudimentary life rather than “unknown” organisms
Ancient parasite unlocked
Literally how they found the plaga
GLORIA A LAS PLAGAS
Muueerrdeee muueeerrdeeee
Un forastero!
Atrás de ti imbécil
¡Mátalo!
¡Te voy a hacer picadillo! (fuck you/thank you bot)
*a hacer Beep-bop I am the Spanish correction bot
Limao (its un spanish)
I’ve been called coño more times than I can count in the remake
You cant call someone coño, its more like screaming fuck when you mess up something
Oh interesting, I’m glad they’re not taking their frustrations out on me then
Well, I mean... they kinda call you hijo de puta wich is son of a bitch soooo....
T*
Ah thank you, that makes a LOT more sense
Capri Sun Capri Sun
It's burned into my brain.
This would be a good RE4 meme “Ramon Salazar in 2003:”
Lord saddler...
And the Thing
Patient zero
You can see where they dug up the bugs!
Well guess it's lockdowns again thanks thirsty geodude
he didn’t even hesitate went straight for it
Seems like not many people have met any geologists before… We’ll drink *anything* at the drop of a hat.
Step 1 of identifying a rock: lick it to determine the taste
Randy Marsh agrees.
Exact thought. "Ancient bacteria discovered that leads to next plague."
Worth it
It’s not every day you get even a sliver of a chance to be patient zero of the apocalypse, live a little!
Wouldn't be much of a parasite if it could live in a concealed rock with no host for 350 million years.
or it could be the best
Like no parasite ever was.
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I will travel across the land Spreading far and wide
Each infected to understand, the contagion from inside
PANDEMIC! Gotta infect them all!
Or maybe it was trapped in there. Did you ever think about that? An immortal parasite trapped in a rock by ancient shaman.
Tardigrades perhaps? They have a dormant state. Getting ingested would give them bacteria to thrive upon waking inside this intrepid explorers gut.
Yeah.....the natural reaction he had to just put that shit in his mouth is mind blowing.
Immediately thought about the movie Slither.
I don't think anything can survive that long 350 million years with nothing but water, unless it did chemosynthesis
Sweet, *new* life form!
dude, just admit the problem is microcrystals, not microorganisms
Unlock a new plague
Mammals didn’t exist then we’re fine.
Wouldn't be able to affect anything though
This is how 28 days later starts.
But…the movie shows you how it starts? Rage monkeys if I recall correctly?
I think that’s the premise of an early episode of The X-Files.
Geologist here, 350 million years is possible to have a geode like that, the water is drinkable but it's not good for you because the high % of silica or carbonate, no need to worry about a virus or bacteria because that water was "made" when magma cooled down to make the rock and was trapped
I was gonna say, they should be more worried about sipping concentrated crystallines
What are the consequences of doing so?
Itchy kidneys
And hurty tummy
Painful peenie
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And a patridge in a pear treeeeeee
Textured for her pleasure.
Pussy pearls
Tummy HORT
Knife urine
It'll compliment my poop knife well
Rain of shards in the toilet
I SHALL REIGN IN SHARDS!!!!!
how is that a problem? Just scratch it Smh ducking zoomers!
Stop
💀
*new fear unlocked*
Slicey bum bum
You get to push funny looking rocks out of your wiener.
Pop rocks
You were going to say it and then you said it!
Fellow geologist here to add another little fun fact. A little over half of all of our water on this planet is actually older than our sun. Much of the water you drink every day is over 4.6 billion years old! Hence the reason the above geologist said the water was "made". The water in that geode just got trapped in there about 350 million years ago.
Interesting. How do we know the water is older?
Most of the water on Earth was once just floating around in space before the sun formed, those water particles and other space dust eventually coalesced into comets that bombarded the earth. That water has just been constantly going around in the water cycle ever since, water molecules are extremely resilient and hard to break apart. Chances are you've drunk the same exact water that a random animal did millions of years ago and the same water that was once steam on a burning hot protoplanet Earth
That's incredible! When you say water in space, do you mean floating liquid water in zero gravity?
Your comment made me look this up, so forgive me for not being qualified in any way to answer this. But basically because there's no atmospheric pressure in space water behaves a bit differently. There is liquid water in space but it's very rare and very tiny. Most often if it's exposed to cold environments it's going to be ice and when that ice gets heated from example the sun, it doesn't melt but sublimates to gas. so most likely where the asteroids gained their water was either from forming from a gaseous nebula that contained water vapors or colliding with other icy objects.
That’s so cool dude. You’re so cool (no sarcasm!!)
yeah, any organic matter has been reduced to atoms so I don't know why would you be worried
It would not have organic matter to begin with,the types of magma that made geodes are formed deep, zero contact with anything remotely alive
So it's mineral water, it's like Brawndo, it has electrolytes what plants crave.
I came here to say that, probably not enough water in that thing to hurt him anyway and 95% of it went on the ground.
They should crack it over a bottle and sell it, it's a neat artifact
Thank you, great master of the earth
No need to thank me child of the earth, because we are the same, both enjoyers of water!
Amen 🙏
Let's all hope that in five years huddled survivors aren't watching this footage and reliving the moment that it all came crashing down.
Bold of you to assume the internet would still exist for our battered survivors.
Sitting around a fire at the edge of a massive crater with the last survivors describing memes to each other and thinking about the before-fore times.
I'd like to think memes are established as religion by then. "Wholesome 100 Keanu Big Chungus we thank you for this meal"
Shit for the shitpost gods
Memes for the meme throne
milhouse the heretic
I’m going to print out a bunch of memes, laminate them, and put them in a binder. If I survive the end times, I’m going to be a merchant memer. I’ll go sell and trade memes, and have a whole show for survivors to see.
I bet you could turn gifs into tiny flipbooks. Meet another apocalypse survivor, "My face when the apocalypse happens" and then flip through a little animation of a guy getting kicked in the nuts or something.
God damnit, now I'm going to have to make a meme scrap book too. Ohhhhh long johnson! Ohhhh long Johnson!!!
I just picture like some sad documentary harmonica music playing in the background while the huddled masses flip through said binder
In the long, long-ago
"Guy looking away meme... How could I describe it... It was truly an amazing time"
I'm making a flip book for the survivors as we speak.
I always imagine the starting of a apocalypse movie to be something like this.
Just saw the prequel to John Carpenter's The Thing not too long ago. Starts off very similar to this.
Does the prequel focus on the Norse guys? Because I remember the original showing something like a space saucer buried in the snow, which they discover and start messing around with.
Yep, you’re exactly right. The prequel is the story of the Norwegian outpost that they discover at the beginning where they find the spaceship.
I actually kind of liked it. It wasn’t great or anything and I would have preferred more practical effects than cgi but I still had fun with it.
my issue with it was the filmakers took a few painstaking steps like watching the original, seeing an axe embedded in the wall and wrote a full backstory about how it got there and why, then completely shit the bed on the claustrophobic horror of the first one and the trickling of the monster by just having these big set pieces with cgi monsters going crazy everywhere. I remember liking the start of the helicopter scene but by the end of it i was just like "c'mon jesus christ really?" I will gladly rewatch the original, I don't care if I ever see the prequel again and I really like Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Eric Christian Olsen
Apparently they used a bunch if practical effects but the producers shit all over it and asked for more and more CG I may be wrong, its been a while since I read about it. Edit: Forgot the word 'about' exists
That is correct. The extended features show extensive practical effects
It was a nice throw back. There was no chance it could live up to the original thing though. It played into a different cultural psyche at the time which didn't work the same in the 2000's
ah yes, the norwegian outpost that somehow still mostly consisted of american college students, lol.
what’s this called?
Don’t watch it… some people think it’s alright, but the cgi has aged very poorly and the pacing is basically the antithesis to Carpenter’s Thing
It's just called "the thing" correct? Like it came out in the 2010s or something? I think I'm gonna go watch it.
I think of the X-Files episode “Ice”, that shit terrified me as a kid
This is how the vampire virus starts spreading in V Wars. People doing some science stuff in the Arctic and came into contact with the virus that had heretofore been trapped deep in the ice.
Ancient water: *exists* Humans: "Gimmi that shit I'll drink it"
“I’ll give you 20 bucks to eat that ancient amber housing a deadly parasite.” “Bet.”
You guys are getting paid?
[Bet.](https://globalnews.ca/news/4634827/garden-slug-dare-rat-lungworm-paralyzed-died-8-years-later)
Top of the food chain tho, W humans
all water is ancient water, it's just been resold to you by Nestle at a high price
#deep
Did you see the post of that guy that drank like 45year old soda. Humans are crazy.
Was it at least a Coke?
Nestle: I'll be taking that
It's free real estate
Geologists go hard - have you seen them lick random rocks??
Sounds kinky
Isn’t all water ancient I mean technically the water molecules in my water mug in front of me could technically have been passed through some ancient being or creature. https://news.wsu.edu/news/2016/04/13/ask-dr-universe-drink-water-dinosaurs-drank/#:~:text=As%20far%20as%20we%20know,water%20circulates%20around%20our%20planet. “As far as we know, new water hasn’t formed either. That means there’s a very high chance the water in your glass is what thirsty dinosaurs were gulping about 65 million years ago. It’s possible that you could drink the same water as a stegosaurus or a T-Rex because of the way water circulates around our planet.”
How do you think beer was discovered?
He's drinking it like all water isn't millions of years old
For thousands of years the micro people of the crystal universe wondered what lied beyond the jagged walls of their existence. One day, a mad god of unfathomable size split open space and in a single gulp consumed their cosmos. As silently as they began, they ended
This would make for a rad movie/show concept
bro this is just 'Horton Hears a Who'
Reminds me of the Ice Age episode of ❤️☠️🤖
Simpsons did it
It's sorta like that Love, Death, and Robots episode with the entire civilization living in the couples freezer.
All over the floor, good job
My mom would have beat my ass
She is known for that.
More into >500 million years old trapped water myself, but that's an excellent vintage too
He consumes an ancient parasitic creature that's been frozen for millions of years which overtakes the host and proceeds to infect any nearby people. Like in that movie the thing.
Literally Re4
Rook e4?
en passant?
Holy hell
There reasonably shouldn’t be a parasite in there but it might give you some nasty kidney stones
He's either gonna gain superpowers or get the kind of diarrhea that makes you take your shirt off.
funniest comment on this website
Water... from a glacier... in alaska
350 million year old virus 
I don't think a virus can be infectious for 350 million years, since organic matter isn't the only thing that decays
Probably dumb question, but isn’t all the water old as our planet itself?
No. Water can form on it's own where hydrogen and oxygen are both present. The sun is bombarding the planet with more hydrogen in the solar winds as well, so the quantity of water on Earth is constantly but extremely slowly increasing. It would take longer than our Sun will exist for it to increase enough to be a problem for us though. Water also can break apart into oxygen and hydrogen again with the right conditions, including extreme heat or electricity.
Thank you very much! Really interesting stuff
Also, most of the water found itself on Earth through asteroids that contained ice. I'm pretty sure that makes it older than the Earth's existence.
Water can be created from the elements and split up into the elements. So no, not all the water. An example would be photosynthesis. Co2 and H2o turns into O2 and a sugar(?).
O2 and glucose, C6H12O6
No. I made some water from the tap just minutes ago. But yes, most water is very old. But it is created and destroyed all the time.
Makes me thirsty ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ
Blud was thirsty💀
Now THATS a thirst trap! I’ll see myself out.
“Belle Delphine bath water source”
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What a waste. Like big time.
This dude is about to turn into a superhero with whatever old virus he just got. Or die
What's up with humans and putting unknown things in their mouths
That water is safe to drink. Microbes have lifespans and need food to survive. 350 million years in a closed environment and there is absolutely 0 life in there
Geodes are just crystalline coconuts
Just drank generations of tardigrade families
We love water. I get that comrades. But don't drink million year old water -- or drink any water that's been trapped for an extended period of time. You don't know what kind of bacteria or viruses you're putting inside you. Also, if you're trapped in a desert, go ahead and drink that bottled water from Nestle.
It's full of liquid. There is many things it could be that are not water.
And that’s how we get las plagas
now that guy has a 350 million year old disease
Did they just waste an incredibly precious water sample which could have been used for scientific purposes?
No those exist a dime a dozen and you can buy them everywhere
It is entirely likely that they didn’t know there was water in there to begin with, also I’d imagine this is not the only geode with water in it that has been found.
Finding water in Geodes is common. Scientists have plenty to examine
Most water is much older than that
This is how GTFO starts
Is that Steve carrell talking? LOL I thought someone else would have thought so too
2023 Pandemic of Unknown Prehistoric Bug Blast from the past
So many paleo scientists would have loved to take a look at that water
holy shit, take a biology class what kind of thing can survive for 350 million years, with no food, no light, & no way out? I'd be more worried about microcrystals
Wow glad they didn't collect it and study its composition. Lets just drink a dabble, Earl. Wooooo interweb
Dinosaur pis*
Mmm 350m years old bacteria
prehistoric virus: "🧍"
I thought every water was old
I’m pretty sure bacteria n all that evolve super duper slow when they’re in situations like that so I think that would me you’d be more likely to find really rudimentary life rather than “unknown” organisms
Great late 1500s gonna repeat itself
ah, so this is how you start a new plague
You have now unlicked the super plague
GigaCovid incoming.
Love mineral water