Pyrite (in reality)
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A couple thousand more pounds of it and you could buy a mansion garden hose for a mansion!
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That looks like pyrite to me, I thought painite was red?
Yeah, looking it up you see pictures like this:
Yeh, "Painite" was a brain spaz! Meant PyriteYeah, looking it up you see pictures like this:
A coprolith?Yeah, looking it up you see pictures like this:
You know what else forms cubic crystals?
Glorious salt.
Glorious salt.
You know what else forms cubic crystals?
Glorious salt.
Forum salt is cuboctahedral
I studied geology as a teen and pyrite was always a favourite - from what I remember the cuboid formations are fairly common. I have a beautiful ammonite fossil somewhere formed from pyrite, with quartz crystals in the chambers - looks something like this:
I don't care what anyone one says... Geology is as cool AF. Nothing beats cracking open a rock and finding something like that.
I don't care what anyone one says... Geology is as cool AF. Nothing beats cracking open a rock and finding something like that.
I studied geology as a teen and pyrite was always a favourite - from what I remember the cuboid formations are fairly common. I have a beautiful ammonite fossil somewhere formed from pyrite, with quartz crystals in the chambers - looks something like this:
I don't care what anyone one says... Geology is as cool AF. Nothing beats cracking open a rock and finding something like that.
Indeed, though most of the time when you crack open a rock you find... more rock.
That sea snail shell does look cool
Not sure where this thread was meant to go but the cubic crystals were worth a click in and of themselves.
Not sure where this thread was meant to go but the cubic crystals were worth a click in and of themselves.
Forum salt is only viable in a liquid solution though.
ADS vs FSS threads produces the best quality and purity of Forum salt.
But the best ship to go mining Forum Salt with is the Cobra MkIV
LOL - "Let me tell you how I think Frontier needs to make this desperately important ship available to me!!!"
WHY CAN I NO HAS COBRA Mk IV!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ohh... that’s a close call!But the best ship to go mining Forum Salt with is the Cobra MkIV
Next year though it’ll be “Why can’t I go into combat with my Carrier”.
True enough... not unlike looking for earth-like worlds.