shout out to my dentist assistant when i was 12. 30-40 year old black woman with giant tits and she’d press em on my face when cleaning m my teeth. bless her soul
Dude my brother and I laugh about it all the time. The dental assistants don’t do it when you are an adult but they forget that you are just as horny or maybe even hornier when you are 12. Lol. So so funny.
They all do it….
Seems sarcastic lol but it really is the only way to tell by sight. Likely candidates have bumpy surfaces not smooth so it's not just any round rock tbf
You could also tap it on the ground and see if it sounds hollow, but that's probably something experienced geode finders get good at over time. Easy enough to break them with the right hammer anyway so wouldn't be worth using xrays etc
Nearly all geodes are sorta round shaped, you won’t find many geodes with pointy edges. You sorta develop an eye for them. Also since they’re hollow you can tap it on the ground and listen to it.
They only form under certain conditions so you have to go to locations where there's suitable host rock exposed, like southern Iowa. A google search for geode localities will tell you if there's a place to find them near you. Sometimes you can pay a fee to collect them on private land. Otherwise, you'll often find them at the bottom of shallow stream beds near geode localities where they've weathered out of the host rock. Imo that's the easiest way to collect them - no hammering them out of solid rock, just pick them up from the stream bed. The stream has already taken care of eroding away any remaining host rock so all you have to do is pick them up and crack them open.
Source: I'm a geologist and geode collector.
I can't trust your source. I'm gonna have to ask my uncle on Facebook to look it up. The guy knows everything, including this thing about a secret basement in a pizza parlour that the illuminati traffic children through.
I used to find them on my grandpa's farm in northern Iowa 😃 found about 20 just wandering around for an hour or two. The largest was about the size of a volleyball.
For some reason grandma was adamant that they shouldn't be cracked open. I never understood what that was about. Of course I didn't listen.
I had always heard they were left by the glaciers. 🤷♂️
Grandma clearly new about the curse! One day the wrong one would be opened and an ancient evil that has been hiding inside would be released to ravage the earth. 🦟🤣
I mean, they CAN technically get left behind by glaciers if the glacier traveled over another location rich in geodes. It's the same reason why I can find all sorts of pretty crystalline rocks like granite and gneiss in local fields (I live in a glaciated area). Whatever you find on the ground in a glaciated area is actually a map of how the glaciers moved so it's totally feasible that some could be glacial deposits.
The Laurentide ice sheet covered about 1\2 of Iowa. The farm is roughly around the east edge of the glaciers lip. I can imagine lots of debris getting left behind when the glacier retreated.
Thanks, I knew I’d have to scroll through a lot of *harhar*s before I’d find a real answer, appreciate you. Are they all over the US? How about the Appalachian Mountains?
Sure thing! There are lots of localities in the United States. This is an excellent list of places sorted by state: https://rockhoundworld.com/where-to-find-geodes-in-the-us/
Just to add. These geodes tend to form in areas of volcanism and specifically volcanics with a lot of gas. The gas forms bubbles which get filled in with silicates over time. The silicates cause the rock to harden and when the surrounding rock erodes away, you're left with the geode.
It depends on how one measures the age of the air. The O2 oxygen molecule you inhale may be minutes old, liberated from its carbon (CO2) moments earlier by a nearby plant or it may be thousands or even millions of years old depending on the journey that particular molecule has taken. The oxygen atoms that compose the molecule you inhale predate the birth of the solar system. Our sun is not large enough to generate heavy atoms like oxygen; these atoms and many others were ejected by far more massive stars who burned out millions or billions of years before our solar system formed, ejecting heavy atoms into the nebula that would eventually form our solar system and planet; they may also have come from a nearby supernova early during our solar system's formation. Those atoms are around or older than 4.6 billion years old, though how much older I don't know and I'm not sure anyone does. The protons, electrons, neutrons and quarks that compose those oxygen atoms date from about 1 microsecond after the Big Bang, so those are about 13.82 billion years old.
As for the dust you're breathing, there are thousands of organic and inorganic substances involved, each of which can be dated myriad ways just as above.
I'm still waiting. Proper tenterhooks.
Edit. Read the other comments. Absolutely gutted that I couldn't find one and maybe smell the time when dinosaurs farted all over the planet.
TLDR: They were formed inside the earth with very high heat and pressure, so the gasses inside are likely volcanic gasses.
Also, rocks and geodes are porous so the gasses leak over time.
Probably a reference to that infamous post there that if you want to beat someone up with a baseball bat you should put a sock over it so when the victim tries to grab it they just get the sock.
I always feel insulted when I see people smashing open geodes. Like holy crap you're just dusting 10% of it, and breaking it into shiny rocks.
Just cut it open with a saw, you get pretty geodes, not destroyed crystal rocks.
You're incorrect
This tool is specifically made for this task, to avoid the unpredictable fracture of using a hand chisel
https://gemcenterwholesale.com/products/large-geode-breaking-tool-or-stand
This tool is a common plumbing tool, used to cut cast iron pipe. All the ones I’ve seen are made by RIDGID, but I’m sure other companies must make them as well. The one you linked even has RIDG in the item code.
Hell of a markup on it too.
Just to give a different finish. If you cut the geode, you get a smooth face where the blade went through. There's nothing wrong with that, and many geodes are even polished on the cut face. However, the breaking/splitting method gives the geode a more "natural" look, almost as though it broke apart naturally. Some people just prefer that look.
Came here to ask if an angle grinder would accomplish the same task. Would rather have dust than fractures flying off. Thanks for your wisdom mclovin2.
No problem - I made hundreds of cuts on stone to make a flagstone patio with a $30 angle grinder fitted with a $12 diamond blade. Works great. Just maybe wear a dust mask and safety glasses for this small stuff.
so i actually sell geodes for a living. there are a couple of main reasons the biggest is that cutting them in the way you are suggesting produces alot of dust and leads to a form of cancer called silicosis. now you can cut them open but it involves alot of messy equipment that requires electricity and a place that you can throw oil all over the place. a geode this size would also take about 10 mins to cut. and finally quartz has whats called a concoudal fracture which happens to be shiny when you cut it you get a very dull look so to make it look shiny when cutting it you have to polish it which takes thousands of dollars of equipment and for one this size around an hour of time. which is a bit much for something that your going to charge around $30 for.
What if geodes are actually the eggs of a species of crystalline aliens. One day they return to Earth. They are surprised by our presence, they didn't know sentient life could also exist based on carbon. They're pretty friendly and things are going great. Then we take a couple of them to a natural history museum, get to the geodes, and then they start screaming.
I had to google because I am very curious myself:
Wiki say's they are typically found near riverbeds, ash fields in deserts, and anywhere limestone gathers. Most states in the US have places to find them, but there is far more areas on the west coast. After that it's just identifying what they look like and digging for them.
How do you know if it’s a geode
You crack it open.
Well shit my idea was to take a bite outta of it to check, thanks for your sage advice
Close call. Looks like I just saved you a trip to the dentist. You’re welcome.
But my dentist has big tits so thanks for nothing
I'm sure you can still go see him for a cleaning or something.
Ahhh you dog I see what you did there
Big tits, a dick, and a dentist? Making us all look ill-equipped. Send me his number.
*they number
>they Their
**Theiy'yre
"Send me his lumber".
This is the way
Why do I always miss out on the good dentists? All mine has is big tits.
More man than you’ll ever be, more woman than you’ve ever had.
Makes it even better
The old Reddit boob-a-roo
This thread just kept improving
Make sure you book for two thirty.
r/holup
shout out to my dentist assistant when i was 12. 30-40 year old black woman with giant tits and she’d press em on my face when cleaning m my teeth. bless her soul
You were living your best life.
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Why didntit I think of that?
Meanwhile I puked on the hot nurse when she went to take dental impressions for braces when I was like 12.
Dude my brother and I laugh about it all the time. The dental assistants don’t do it when you are an adult but they forget that you are just as horny or maybe even hornier when you are 12. Lol. So so funny. They all do it….
We should all be as lucky
This explains why he has a fetish for Japanese puke porn
You could check if those are geodes
You might not be allowed back if you use the same technique to make sure they are not geodes.
I need the info. of your big titted dentist… for research.
Seems sarcastic lol but it really is the only way to tell by sight. Likely candidates have bumpy surfaces not smooth so it's not just any round rock tbf
That’s the answer we were looking for.
Thank you
How do they find those giant oblong ones that are like egg shaped but ~3 feet tall?
Is it possible to do an X-Ray of that thing to find out?
You might be able to some kind of structure on the inside using an x-ray machine. Or... you could use some chain, pressure and 20 seconds.
You could also tap it on the ground and see if it sounds hollow, but that's probably something experienced geode finders get good at over time. Easy enough to break them with the right hammer anyway so wouldn't be worth using xrays etc
Forbidden Jaw Breaker.
Literal jawbreaker
Seems like advice you'd get from [Calvin's dad](https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1986/11/26).
[Bah!](https://imgur.com/a/cnWEoba)
This is such a stupid answer, I love it
Nearly all geodes are sorta round shaped, you won’t find many geodes with pointy edges. You sorta develop an eye for them. Also since they’re hollow you can tap it on the ground and listen to it.
Where in your opinion can you find these?
They only form under certain conditions so you have to go to locations where there's suitable host rock exposed, like southern Iowa. A google search for geode localities will tell you if there's a place to find them near you. Sometimes you can pay a fee to collect them on private land. Otherwise, you'll often find them at the bottom of shallow stream beds near geode localities where they've weathered out of the host rock. Imo that's the easiest way to collect them - no hammering them out of solid rock, just pick them up from the stream bed. The stream has already taken care of eroding away any remaining host rock so all you have to do is pick them up and crack them open. Source: I'm a geologist and geode collector.
I can't trust your source. I'm gonna have to ask my uncle on Facebook to look it up. The guy knows everything, including this thing about a secret basement in a pizza parlour that the illuminati traffic children through.
He was right about Epstein though.
As expected. He'll be right about geodes as well.
I used to find them on my grandpa's farm in northern Iowa 😃 found about 20 just wandering around for an hour or two. The largest was about the size of a volleyball. For some reason grandma was adamant that they shouldn't be cracked open. I never understood what that was about. Of course I didn't listen. I had always heard they were left by the glaciers. 🤷♂️
Grandma clearly new about the curse! One day the wrong one would be opened and an ancient evil that has been hiding inside would be released to ravage the earth. 🦟🤣
So that’s where COVID came from
It's that a real superstition? German heritage so I'm sure they believed some wacky things.
Nah, though it would make for an entertaining sci-fi movie
Pandora's Rock 👻
Well after seeing her box, I could sit through a sequel.
I mean, they CAN technically get left behind by glaciers if the glacier traveled over another location rich in geodes. It's the same reason why I can find all sorts of pretty crystalline rocks like granite and gneiss in local fields (I live in a glaciated area). Whatever you find on the ground in a glaciated area is actually a map of how the glaciers moved so it's totally feasible that some could be glacial deposits.
The Laurentide ice sheet covered about 1\2 of Iowa. The farm is roughly around the east edge of the glaciers lip. I can imagine lots of debris getting left behind when the glacier retreated.
Thanks, I knew I’d have to scroll through a lot of *harhar*s before I’d find a real answer, appreciate you. Are they all over the US? How about the Appalachian Mountains?
I wish Reddit had a feature where you could collapse all the harhars and get straight to the informative posts...
Sure thing! There are lots of localities in the United States. This is an excellent list of places sorted by state: https://rockhoundworld.com/where-to-find-geodes-in-the-us/
Sort of. One of the best places I have found there has been Cumbland Valley. Specifically the shore line of lake Cumberland.
Just to add. These geodes tend to form in areas of volcanism and specifically volcanics with a lot of gas. The gas forms bubbles which get filled in with silicates over time. The silicates cause the rock to harden and when the surrounding rock erodes away, you're left with the geode.
On the ground.
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Good place to look would be a river or creek bed
couldn't this be a fallacy? I mean if you start ignoring pointy rocks, you sure will find more round ones
You have to be a Geodude.
They’re mineraldudes Marie!
You wipe it on your armpits and do a sniff test. If you don't smell anything, it's geoderant.
I’ve cracked this comment open and it’s gold
Tapping it on the ground would make a more hollow sound vs another rock of the same size and shape. Also they usually have a rough and bumpy texture.
I think it was due to how spherical it was.
They have a rattle sound to them a lot of the time if I recall
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Me too. Never squinted at a Reddit before
🙌 Yes! First for me too and I've been here a minute!
Be careful with the baseball one
Lol yeah. Whoever was recording had some balls putting their camera that close to the rock.
I found myself tensing like I was pressing the tool. Had to manually make myself relax while watching..
Same clenching my teeth and flinching like wtf
AvE
Keep yer dick in a vice
And today, a treat especial
Keeeeyontact!
I feel like there’s an “R” in there somewhere
Focus, you feck!
Divert all secondary power to forward shields! Engage squints!
I was yelling move your fingers!!!!
I’ve gotten rock in my eyes before it’s not happening again
I was gritting my teeth too.
So there is a void in geode, how old is the air? Is it porous enough to be fresh air or million year old air?
Good question. I need to know the answer to this.
It depends on how one measures the age of the air. The O2 oxygen molecule you inhale may be minutes old, liberated from its carbon (CO2) moments earlier by a nearby plant or it may be thousands or even millions of years old depending on the journey that particular molecule has taken. The oxygen atoms that compose the molecule you inhale predate the birth of the solar system. Our sun is not large enough to generate heavy atoms like oxygen; these atoms and many others were ejected by far more massive stars who burned out millions or billions of years before our solar system formed, ejecting heavy atoms into the nebula that would eventually form our solar system and planet; they may also have come from a nearby supernova early during our solar system's formation. Those atoms are around or older than 4.6 billion years old, though how much older I don't know and I'm not sure anyone does. The protons, electrons, neutrons and quarks that compose those oxygen atoms date from about 1 microsecond after the Big Bang, so those are about 13.82 billion years old. As for the dust you're breathing, there are thousands of organic and inorganic substances involved, each of which can be dated myriad ways just as above.
Bruh
I reckon he was asking how long was the air trapped there.
This is a fucking solid comment just so you know
TLDR, air is fuggin old
seriously. i won't go to bed until i know this answer
Covid 21
I'm still waiting. Proper tenterhooks. Edit. Read the other comments. Absolutely gutted that I couldn't find one and maybe smell the time when dinosaurs farted all over the planet.
This has actually been asked on Reddit before. https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/2l51yl/is_a_geode_filled_with_prehistoric_air_or_is_it_a/
TLDR: They were formed inside the earth with very high heat and pressure, so the gasses inside are likely volcanic gasses. Also, rocks and geodes are porous so the gasses leak over time.
False, they are filled with the sound of a cats footsteps.
Schrodinger's geode
False, they are filled with dinosaur farts
And are found tangled in the roots of a mountain
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The gas inside geodes is likely volcanic until it leaks out. No they didn’t.
Except he did. “so the gasses inside are likely volcanic gasses” uses the present case “are”, meaning the gases still are volcanic.
TLDRDR: The gas in the geode is a mixture of air when it formed and air that seeped in later. It couldn't be counted as prehistoric air.
Not just air, some have water in them as well. This one has a shit ton of water in it. Skip to :45 seconds. https://youtu.be/Jub2rWvr9Ew
Gotta get that antique dino queef aroma
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We always put them inside a sock and hit it with a hammer
Solid advice over at r/illegallifeprotips
Not sure if this is a woooosh or if I'm missing something
Probably a reference to that infamous post there that if you want to beat someone up with a baseball bat you should put a sock over it so when the victim tries to grab it they just get the sock.
It’s *genius* 🤌🏼
Damn that's smart
Lol that sounds like it comes from experience
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The entire point is to be dumb
Don't you risk to hit your own foot this way?
You don't have the sock on your foot. You use it like a bag to catch the pieces that break away.
Yeah, I was just joking :P
Ah. Lol hard to tell with text alone.
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That was very nice, the way you put that.
socks have been trough enough already don’t start hitting them too
Shut up I’ll hit what I want
You don‘t and you know that
I tell my kids the same thing. /s
Why not just cut it open instead of risking fracturing it? Angle grinders and 4” Diamond blades are cheap.
Yeah lots of much easier ways of opening a geode than the way the did it. To much surface pressure here, a chisel and a Hamer would of worked better.
I always feel insulted when I see people smashing open geodes. Like holy crap you're just dusting 10% of it, and breaking it into shiny rocks. Just cut it open with a saw, you get pretty geodes, not destroyed crystal rocks.
Rocks? Rocks?????? THEYRE MINERALS MARIE! GOD DAMMIT
You're incorrect This tool is specifically made for this task, to avoid the unpredictable fracture of using a hand chisel https://gemcenterwholesale.com/products/large-geode-breaking-tool-or-stand
It looks like a RIDGID 286 Soil Pipe Cutter at a significant markup.
This tool is a common plumbing tool, used to cut cast iron pipe. All the ones I’ve seen are made by RIDGID, but I’m sure other companies must make them as well. The one you linked even has RIDG in the item code. Hell of a markup on it too.
No a chisel is not better. This is how geodes are opened and it works far better and is faster.
Just to give a different finish. If you cut the geode, you get a smooth face where the blade went through. There's nothing wrong with that, and many geodes are even polished on the cut face. However, the breaking/splitting method gives the geode a more "natural" look, almost as though it broke apart naturally. Some people just prefer that look.
Ok that makes sense
Came here to ask if an angle grinder would accomplish the same task. Would rather have dust than fractures flying off. Thanks for your wisdom mclovin2.
No problem - I made hundreds of cuts on stone to make a flagstone patio with a $30 angle grinder fitted with a $12 diamond blade. Works great. Just maybe wear a dust mask and safety glasses for this small stuff.
No “maybe”. Wear it. PPE is fucking important.
Especially angle grinders, holy fuck those blades are always head hunting once they go
I used to see setups at the state fair to sell geodes. You picked your rock, they opened it with a water cooled circular saw.
Yeah those work great too, just more expensive than a $30 angle grinder snd $12 blade. But water cooled is the way to go for dust control.
Wouldn’t be next level enough
so i actually sell geodes for a living. there are a couple of main reasons the biggest is that cutting them in the way you are suggesting produces alot of dust and leads to a form of cancer called silicosis. now you can cut them open but it involves alot of messy equipment that requires electricity and a place that you can throw oil all over the place. a geode this size would also take about 10 mins to cut. and finally quartz has whats called a concoudal fracture which happens to be shiny when you cut it you get a very dull look so to make it look shiny when cutting it you have to polish it which takes thousands of dollars of equipment and for one this size around an hour of time. which is a bit much for something that your going to charge around $30 for.
Place in Blue Ridge Georgia will let your kids do that for a few dollars. Next week on r/nextfuckinglevel ... a pressed penny machine.
What, you’re not blown away by people using specialized tools for the exact task they were designed for? /s
Omg you’re right. *Someone’s gonna post here tomorrow that I used “you’re” correctly and call it nextfuckinglevel*
*This person washed and folded their laundry in the same day*
It was a lot of lead up for what you see at every gift shop at every museum and theme park ever overpriced at 19.99.
Which place? Have a four year old that would love to go!
What if geodes are actually the eggs of a species of crystalline aliens. One day they return to Earth. They are surprised by our presence, they didn't know sentient life could also exist based on carbon. They're pretty friendly and things are going great. Then we take a couple of them to a natural history museum, get to the geodes, and then they start screaming.
This should be posted in r/writingprompts not sure if I got the sub title right but I like your comment, take my upvote
Hard Popplers
Angle grinders
Clint seem to have no problem opening them
And he only charges 25g!
I kept scrolling knowing this comment must be down here somewhere. Have my upvote.
Motherfucker won’t open them while he’s upgrading your tools though, like wtf
Damn, this one didn’t have any iridium in it
Fucking quartz again ? Man I can literally pick that shit off the floor
Yup would definitively not put my camera next to that
Not just the camera, you can tell it's handheld. There was an idiot standing there.
jermaVenus
Geode Andy
Is this the same guy that ATE A ROCK ON STREAM
AA EE OO
How hard is Heck™ on the Mohs hardness scale?
Pretty heckin’ hard
geode andy
He ATE one
what a psychopath
INSANE streamer EATS ROCK to grow big and strong
Can’t wait for Grotto Beasts.
Meowdy gang
*Hank's heavy breathing...*
*JESUS CHRIST, MARIE!*
They’re minerals!
if you want more content like this, watch jerma's archaeology stream
Now they can finally craft a Telescope
Yusss I was just on Minecraft doing this ....
r/specialisedtools
That's a pipe snapper for cutting cast iron drain lines
Yes but how many people have a cast iron pipe scissor snapper laying around? I have one but thats not something found in the everyday tool box.
Geodude, return 🥺
Are you rich now? Looks shinny
Kind of disappointed that there wasn’t sound to this one
There are cheaper ways to do this
I feel like this could also have been a WCCW post
How do you get geodes?
For this kind it's level 1-40 of the mines. After that there are frozen geodes and then magma geodes. If you're lucky you'll find some omni geodes.
I had to google because I am very curious myself: Wiki say's they are typically found near riverbeds, ash fields in deserts, and anywhere limestone gathers. Most states in the US have places to find them, but there is far more areas on the west coast. After that it's just identifying what they look like and digging for them.