me when i load up blender

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?

Freaky that those are natural

Call me a fool, but I like this more than gold.

And the old saying is “there are no straight lines in nature.”

Time for me to add my tiny bit of semi related, but useless, knowledge : Galena can also form in cube shapes.

The only reason I know this is because we were crawling around in some old mines in the Ozarks and back in a little offshoot I found a few small, dark cubes in the dirt so I asked some of the geologists with us. Turns out the small mines were there specifically to pull out galena.

From wikipedia :

Galena, also called lead glance, is the natural mineral form of lead(II) sulfide (PbS). It is the most important ore of lead and an important source of silver.

Also, don't go crawling around in mines from the 1800s, it's likely a bad idea.

I swear nature is just fucking with us when it comes to pyrite

!cool_rocks@lemmy.today

This is a Doctor Who plot before the reveal.

It’s amazing that they’re all exactly the same size.

Someone tossed a pyrite house from monopoly in there as a goof.

Any reason why they form this way?

Resistance is futile

imagine finding one of these as a paleolithic hominid who has never seen a precise 90° angle in their life

There's a quote from a movie where the guy says "Nature doesn't build straight lines" to sound all smart and shit. I thought it sounded like some pseudo smart guy movie crap, but now I know what to point at to prove that movie wrong