Call me a fool, but I like this more than gold.
And the old saying is “there are no straight lines in nature.”
Wonder what the largest naturally-occurring pyrite cube is, hypothetically speaking. Like is there an upper limit on size or are borg cubes grown and then hollowed out?
Given ridiculously perfect conditions, I don’t think there’s any (reasonable) upper limit on how big a pyrite cube could grow.
There are certainly limits on how big one could grow in real life conditions, but those are always fluctuating, and who knows when conditions might randomly become just right for an even bigger cube…
At any rate, you’d eventually be limited by your supply of iron and sulfur, I suppose, if nothing else.
There’s probably an upper bound imposed by self gravity at some point, but I don’t feel like doing math today
Yuge cubes
me when i load up blender
These are the cubes you murdered just to make a cube.
Freaky that those are natural
I swear nature is just fucking with us when it comes to pyrite
And bismuth
Bismuth rocks.
Resistance is futile
Someone tossed a pyrite house from monopoly in there as a goof.
Resistance is futile
It’s amazing that they’re all exactly the same size.
They’re selected for this because they’re all near-perfect cubes.
There’s a bag of ‘uglies’ under the table that look more like the one on the right embedded in the quartz(?).
Still amazing though.
Are we look at the same picture?
It’s a matter of perspective.
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