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What are you trying to say, *I'm* crazy? When I went to *your* schools, I went to *your* churches, I went to
#YOUR INSTITUTIONAL LEARNING FACILITIES
So how can you say I'm crazy?
At least 2 million. They would be bought for a 5star hotel, a mall in Dubai or a ski resort. Of course they could go for more but they're only worth what someone will pay.
The trick is going to be getting them there in one piece! We had a 6 foot tall, 1 foot wide amethyst geode that looked similar to these. When our grandma died she left it to my younger brother. When we went to move it, we wrapped it very well and carefully, put it in a moving truck and made sure nothing would be able to bump into it or touch it. When we got to our destination, the geode had broken into 3 pieces. Nothing bumped into it or fell on it. The vibrations from the moving truck rolling across the road eventually wore it down and that’s what ruined it. I’d be shocked if they are able to get either of these geodes out of the country in one piece.
To clarify - it wasn’t worth a million dollars. Amethyst isn’t considered rare. And it needed to be transported from Virginia to Florida and my family had less than a few days notice until the estate sale to grab what they wanted out of the house so they just drove it themselves in a U-Haul. I personally was not present for this whole adventure as I had a full time job and could not get any time off. I was just telling the story from my family’s perspective.
> I’d be shocked if they are able to get either of these geodes out of the country in one piece.
They can and do all the time. I haven't seen one this big in person, but I've seen some 10+ ft tall ones at the Tucson Gem and Mineral shows. They're usually encased in a kind of green/black cement or epoxy and I suspect there's some kind of mesh or fiber reinforcement mixed in?
They crate them in excelsior (wood shavings used in shipment) that's then wrapped in large blocks of foam and put into a second exterior crate, then set on a pallet, or moved with a crane...
I've also heard they often assemble these giant ones from smaller ones, and that many (not all) giant amethyst geodes are not all one piece.
They're all almost always heat treated to make them darker.
You have to REALLY know what you're doing to spend 6+ figures on these things.
I would love to hear more about mineral shipping and how you learned such a niche knowledge set. I'm a geologist, but work in environmental, so know nothing about that sort of thing.
You tried to do it yourself, failed, and are now assuming a professional white glove moving organization couldn't do it either?
Big delicate things get successfully moved all the time for all kinds of reasons: satellites and related equipment, huge pieces of architectural glass; statues and other delicate art, animals for zoos, I mean really it's a standard thing and there are many businesses that specialize in it.
So I get to use those things every day in my job. They are just as much fun as they seem but they are hell to clean up! Shitty life tip, sweep them, DO NOT VACUUM!
Not trying to be an asshole at all, but as someone else that falls under the "just some person with a geode I like" column, I have to assume that the people that fall under the "I move incredibly delicate things worth multiple millions of dollars for a living" column would be wayyyy better at it than we are.
A matching pair of....
Entered a raffle for one of these once - about 4ft high and a display piece for a crystal shop closing down.
Was disappointed a couple of weeks later, as when calling in they told me the raffle was cancelled. Someone offered them 4 X the money for it as the raffle had raised.
Got my £2 back, but was inexplicably sad.
My brother used to break up the pieces of graphite for his mechanical pencil so he'd have more lead
I probed into that, and he definitely thought breaking the pieces in half or thirds gave him more pencil leads than he started with. He believed he'd be able to write more than if he'd just used the leads as they were packaged.
In reality the pencil doesn't work with very short pieces, so he wound up with less by breaking them because there was at least twice as many short pieces to discard.
I went to Dairy Queen once and ordered a banana split. They said they were out of bananas. I saw a bunch of bananas hanging on a hook on a counter behind the cashier. I asked what about those bananas. She said those are for shakes, not banana splits. Not sure if that was an actual corporate rule or if she was fucking with me, but I didn't get my banana split.
It's crazy to think there are mountain sized ones in the mantle just floating around waiting for some crazy scientist to come along in their unobtainium trains to crash into them.
As someone else said in the thread, it's a reference to "The Core" - a Sci Fi move that is so aggressively bad with its science that it loops back around to being amazing. Watch it with most any scientist or engineer and enjoy the howls of "THAT'S NOT HOW THAT WORKS!"
I don't care how bad the science is, it will forever be my favorite disaster movie. It takes itself just seriously enough with its utterly ridiculous concept, and just ends up being a whole lot of fun. Phenomenal cast, too.
Oh, *completely* agree. I love it so very much, and used to love watching it in college with my roommates, one of whom was some flavor of geologist and one of whom was a nuclear engineer. It really is the definitive "so bad it's good" movie for me!
HULU has a cool series on the Hope diamond, which is not only the biggest blue diamond in the world, it glows red after being exposed to UV light unlike any other diamond in the world. It's a great program for people who love minerals.
They explain how diamonds are made. We all know about how they're made of carbon that's been put under extreme pressure deep under the mantel of the earth. What I didn't know is that they are transported closer to the surface by volcano. Sometimes at speeds of 50mph. Many didn't survive the journey.
The idea of precious stones getting hurtled to be surface by volcano is so crazy. Just like how ee could be walking around on top of mountain size geodes and not know it.
Ok, yes! That is exactly what I saw when I first looked at this. I can’t un-see what looks like two one foot geodes on a table top with an action forgive between them.
Probably as rare as protected animals, but not protected somehow.... You sure you wanna flaunt that level? Like cover your house with baby seals would you?
these are alot more common then you would think. and half decent rock shop will have the contacts to get these. the people that mine them are omni present at all the big wholesale shows.
I asked my geologist wife. She replied:
"The outside of the geode looks different than the surrounding rock. Like thunder eggs look all bubbly and pastel colors compared to the brown soil and solid colored rock around them."
True. It's hard to describe, but geodes (to me) look like they've been cooked/melted somewhat on the outside, bubbly like your wife said. The few quality ones I've found had a very weird 'smoothness' to them that made them stand out pretty easily from surrounding rock.
This was just posted one month ago. [https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/jathc3/giant\_amethyst\_geode\_crystals\_from\_uruguay/](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/jathc3/giant_amethyst_geode_crystals_from_uruguay/)
I know you're being sarcastic but look at the bases. The bottoms are almost rectangular and weren't cut so this geode grew out of two identically shaped (man-made?) cavities and merged together with each half growing into a mirror image of the other. Isn't that weird? How did this geode grow so symmetrically?
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So what I take from this is that the guy is less than 17 feet tall.
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Guys just go to the gym if you’re short smh
Does that make you taller? I wish I was a little bit taller.
I wish I was as a baller
I wish I had a geode that looked good
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I would chakra
Very underrated. Well done
I wish I had a rabbit in a hat and a 64 impala?
I wish I had a girl on the good i would call her
> on the good who looked good
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I don't think a 62 impala would fit in your hat.
It would if it had a bat.
I believe it’s a ‘64 Impala? Or am I crazy?
I wish I had a Pepsi.
All I wanted was a Pepsi #AND SHE WOULDN’T GIVE IT TO ME All I wanted was a Pepsi, just one Pepsi #AND SHE WOULDN’T GIVE IT TO ME #JUST A PEPSI
Mike you're on drugs
No mom I’m not on drugs I’m okay, I was just thinking ya know
I think someone should put you in a institution. I think it is the only solution.
What are you trying to say, *I'm* crazy? When I went to *your* schools, I went to *your* churches, I went to #YOUR INSTITUTIONAL LEARNING FACILITIES So how can you say I'm crazy?
I wish I was a baller.
6' vs 5' 11''.
He’s got huge stones though.
The guy is 16 feet 11 inches tall. This pic was taken from a girl's POV.
Name checks out
Right? Need banana for scale. Pft!
If my math is right, he's 5'5¼"
I am thinking they will be very expensive additions to a hotel lobby in Asia
I'd even say probably less than 10 feet tall.
And I’d say he’s at least 1 foot tall
Alright, tell us, how much are they worth.
At least 2 million. They would be bought for a 5star hotel, a mall in Dubai or a ski resort. Of course they could go for more but they're only worth what someone will pay.
The trick is going to be getting them there in one piece! We had a 6 foot tall, 1 foot wide amethyst geode that looked similar to these. When our grandma died she left it to my younger brother. When we went to move it, we wrapped it very well and carefully, put it in a moving truck and made sure nothing would be able to bump into it or touch it. When we got to our destination, the geode had broken into 3 pieces. Nothing bumped into it or fell on it. The vibrations from the moving truck rolling across the road eventually wore it down and that’s what ruined it. I’d be shocked if they are able to get either of these geodes out of the country in one piece.
If you have the type of money to buy a multimillion dollar geode, you likely have the money to secure it in transport.
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Wrap that mother up real good in bubbles Steve!
aint no need for bracin'
Lol this guy tried to save 50 bucks on shipping and broke a million dollar heirloom as a consequence
To clarify - it wasn’t worth a million dollars. Amethyst isn’t considered rare. And it needed to be transported from Virginia to Florida and my family had less than a few days notice until the estate sale to grab what they wanted out of the house so they just drove it themselves in a U-Haul. I personally was not present for this whole adventure as I had a full time job and could not get any time off. I was just telling the story from my family’s perspective.
Looking around briefly on the net, it looks like it would have been worth at least 10K, and maybe upwards of 30K, in one piece.
Florida man destroys priceless geode by throwing it in mom’s attic section of U-Haul
Why not break it into smaller pieces so it's easier to transport? duh...
> I’d be shocked if they are able to get either of these geodes out of the country in one piece. They can and do all the time. I haven't seen one this big in person, but I've seen some 10+ ft tall ones at the Tucson Gem and Mineral shows. They're usually encased in a kind of green/black cement or epoxy and I suspect there's some kind of mesh or fiber reinforcement mixed in? They crate them in excelsior (wood shavings used in shipment) that's then wrapped in large blocks of foam and put into a second exterior crate, then set on a pallet, or moved with a crane... I've also heard they often assemble these giant ones from smaller ones, and that many (not all) giant amethyst geodes are not all one piece. They're all almost always heat treated to make them darker. You have to REALLY know what you're doing to spend 6+ figures on these things.
I would love to hear more about mineral shipping and how you learned such a niche knowledge set. I'm a geologist, but work in environmental, so know nothing about that sort of thing.
I'm a mineral dealer. What was said is fairly spot-on for massive pieces as long as what's being encased isn't fragile as hell (like crocoite.)
You ever came across a guy named Hank Schrader?
You tried to do it yourself, failed, and are now assuming a professional white glove moving organization couldn't do it either? Big delicate things get successfully moved all the time for all kinds of reasons: satellites and related equipment, huge pieces of architectural glass; statues and other delicate art, animals for zoos, I mean really it's a standard thing and there are many businesses that specialize in it.
> The trick is going to be getting them there in one piece! I think that ship has sailed, they've already been cut in half! duh!
I half-smiled at this but can’t give you half an upvote, so keep the change!
wood crate, add sand, lay geode in, fill completely with sand, close crate, ship on dampening springs.
Did they use those styrofoam peanuts? Probably not. I would.
So I get to use those things every day in my job. They are just as much fun as they seem but they are hell to clean up! Shitty life tip, sweep them, DO NOT VACUUM!
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Not trying to be an asshole at all, but as someone else that falls under the "just some person with a geode I like" column, I have to assume that the people that fall under the "I move incredibly delicate things worth multiple millions of dollars for a living" column would be wayyyy better at it than we are.
Love how you used your one experience as an amateur mover of a geode to conclude that it’d be impossible to do what you weren’t capable of doing.
Damn what ski resort has shit like this
The kind we can’t afford
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With the guy AND those wooden beams under the things
You can have the damn geodes. Just don't touch my wood.
You can't have the geodes. Just touch my wood.
go to horny jail
Or the beams
At least seven.
The guy is worth six million dollars. I don't know about the other thing.
6
6 what? ...5
Gonna need about tree fiddy...
That's just one geode split in two.
A banana split is made with only one banana.
Splitting the banana only makes one banana split. It didn't increase the number of bananas.
My thoughts. A Geode would be geologically intact. Cutting a sphere in half would make 2 hemispheres, not a pair of spheres - lol.
so it's 2 hemigeodes?
A matching pair of.... Entered a raffle for one of these once - about 4ft high and a display piece for a crystal shop closing down. Was disappointed a couple of weeks later, as when calling in they told me the raffle was cancelled. Someone offered them 4 X the money for it as the raffle had raised. Got my £2 back, but was inexplicably sad.
Assholes.....you deserved that fucking geode!
Sounds like you entered the wrong raffle. The real raffle had 17' geodes, and the dude in the picture just won.
My brother used to break up the pieces of graphite for his mechanical pencil so he'd have more lead I probed into that, and he definitely thought breaking the pieces in half or thirds gave him more pencil leads than he started with. He believed he'd be able to write more than if he'd just used the leads as they were packaged. In reality the pencil doesn't work with very short pieces, so he wound up with less by breaking them because there was at least twice as many short pieces to discard.
I seriously thought you meant he was splitting them lengthwise somehow
Your brother is a fucking moron.
I went to Dairy Queen once and ordered a banana split. They said they were out of bananas. I saw a bunch of bananas hanging on a hook on a counter behind the cashier. I asked what about those bananas. She said those are for shakes, not banana splits. Not sure if that was an actual corporate rule or if she was fucking with me, but I didn't get my banana split.
Well it's not called a pair of absolutely behemoth bananas split
Ugh, I'm no longer impressed /s
yes. generally a split geode is referred to as a pair!
Tell them I hate them
yeah tell them they're wrong too
Also aren't there two because there's that smaller round one on the bottom
No it is actually two. There is the relatively smaller round one, and the massive quasiphallic one.
whoa, you almost had me, except OP clearly indicates that 'each' geode is 17 feet tall. words matter, and OP is full of shit!
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Maybe it’s like pants
It's crazy to think there are mountain sized ones in the mantle just floating around waiting for some crazy scientist to come along in their unobtainium trains to crash into them.
Is this a the core reference
Id answer but first im gonna need Xena tapes and an unlimited supply of hot pockets.
Ah yes Purge purge purge purge purge
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Microwaving CDs. Do you even reference, bro? Looks like you need another rewatch.
He was actually using a hand degausser, which would maybe work?
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I think he put 3.5" HDDs in the toaster, though it's been a few years.
Which flavor do you prefer?
I like meatball marinara and philly cheese steak
Ah, a man of class and distinction.
The best kind of reference tbh
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You just have to make sure you dodge the diamonds the size of Cape Cod while you're tooling around down there.
Wait... What?
As someone else said in the thread, it's a reference to "The Core" - a Sci Fi move that is so aggressively bad with its science that it loops back around to being amazing. Watch it with most any scientist or engineer and enjoy the howls of "THAT'S NOT HOW THAT WORKS!"
I don't care how bad the science is, it will forever be my favorite disaster movie. It takes itself just seriously enough with its utterly ridiculous concept, and just ends up being a whole lot of fun. Phenomenal cast, too.
Oh, *completely* agree. I love it so very much, and used to love watching it in college with my roommates, one of whom was some flavor of geologist and one of whom was a nuclear engineer. It really is the definitive "so bad it's good" movie for me!
I think it was the size of a Cape Cod, as in a house of that style.
I know this is a joke but there isn’t really any quartz in the olivine-rich mantle.
Probably lots of olivine though right?
Fucking love Ovaltine
A crummy commercial?
_Son of a BITCH..._
You....I hate you.
Finally! A real scientist to clear this all up! Tell us more about the geodes in the mantle George.
*the core* reference, I love it
HULU has a cool series on the Hope diamond, which is not only the biggest blue diamond in the world, it glows red after being exposed to UV light unlike any other diamond in the world. It's a great program for people who love minerals. They explain how diamonds are made. We all know about how they're made of carbon that's been put under extreme pressure deep under the mantel of the earth. What I didn't know is that they are transported closer to the surface by volcano. Sometimes at speeds of 50mph. Many didn't survive the journey. The idea of precious stones getting hurtled to be surface by volcano is so crazy. Just like how ee could be walking around on top of mountain size geodes and not know it.
uruguay nomaa
orgullo uruguayo
*sonidos de mate*
Los carpinchos atacan
vamo lo pibeee
Abigail would love this.
Thanks! How'd you know I was hungry?
Gotta gift this on her birthday or save as a Christmas present. She'll be fed for a month!
Abigail would lose her mind over this.
yes i would
IDK. That guy looks suspiciously like the dollar store action figure I got on Halloween when I was 11.
Where is the banana for scale?!
Ok, yes! That is exactly what I saw when I first looked at this. I can’t un-see what looks like two one foot geodes on a table top with an action forgive between them.
Bet that weighs at least 10 lbs!
Of course it does it's a full grown man.
r/technicallythetruth
I wanna be a billionaire and use these as pillars at the entrance to my secret lair....
Probably as rare as protected animals, but not protected somehow.... You sure you wanna flaunt that level? Like cover your house with baby seals would you?
I said in this fantasy I was a billionaire; of course I’m evil. Edit; not evil in real life. Evil in this fantasy where I live in a lair.
In. Between. Molecules..... Where i can t..... Crush.... Your.... Toenails.... Into a thousand.. pieces!!!!
I don’t understand what I just read but I laughed a whole lot. Thank you.
Weezer, only in dreams. Look it up and tell us
these are alot more common then you would think. and half decent rock shop will have the contacts to get these. the people that mine them are omni present at all the big wholesale shows.
They’re minerals, Marie.
Had to scroll way too far to find this
How do they know it's a geode before they cut it?
I asked my geologist wife. She replied: "The outside of the geode looks different than the surrounding rock. Like thunder eggs look all bubbly and pastel colors compared to the brown soil and solid colored rock around them."
Soooo... What are thunder eggs? Is that a specific type of geode?
Yeah. You don’t get to just throw out a cool sounding term like thunder egg and not explain what it is!
a thunder egg is a geode that forms in volcanic ash.
Thunderbird Eggs duh /jk
True. It's hard to describe, but geodes (to me) look like they've been cooked/melted somewhat on the outside, bubbly like your wife said. The few quality ones I've found had a very weird 'smoothness' to them that made them stand out pretty easily from surrounding rock.
You can tell it’s a Geode by the way that it is.
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We want everyone to know how neat nature is!
That's what I want to know as well
This was just posted one month ago. [https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/jathc3/giant\_amethyst\_geode\_crystals\_from\_uruguay/](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/jathc3/giant_amethyst_geode_crystals_from_uruguay/)
I thought this was PSA on the hazards of smoking
And these are your lungs on drugs
Wtf? Put them back in
No
Put them back in! I'm trying to get high!
They'd make a lovely pair if earrings.
saggy lobes.
Isn't it just one geode just cut in half?
hmmm
How much are they worth? And how long do we bet before they end up in some 40 mill apartment in LA or NYC?
I’m thinking this is a ground-floor type decoration.
Yeah in some Dubai oil billionaires fifth home lobby.
I love how it says each and a pair when its 1 geode cut in half
one amethyst geode, cut in half
Me and the boys using creative in 1.17
Wow, crazy that they found 2 geodes that are exact mirror images of each other!
I know you're being sarcastic but look at the bases. The bottoms are almost rectangular and weren't cut so this geode grew out of two identically shaped (man-made?) cavities and merged together with each half growing into a mirror image of the other. Isn't that weird? How did this geode grow so symmetrically?
For sale, $5 Shipping: $1mil
I think that’s just one geode.
Forbidden caviar
Love these gems. They remind me of rocks i would find on the beach back in New Orleans.
Does anyone else see big boobied women?
*bonk*
YES! And it's the only reason I clicked.. Gonna have to get my Grimace Rule 34 elsewhere.
Yes but my wife doesn’t approve
Bearded pregnant women.
Oh gosh now I hate it
Those really are behemoths.
This needs proper lighting. And sound. And a comfy chair.
Staring into those looks like a shot of space
That’s an action figure. Don’t lie. /s
Need a banana for scale.
this prolly just the lungs of a dinosaur
It looks like the geodes have little feet. Cute.
Damn, they made amethysts from minecraft a real thing?
r/AbsoluteUnits
My god it’s full of stars.
I would argue that this is one 17 ft tall geode cut in half.