Tourist kicks over annoying 10-million-year old stalagmite

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@Cunk

Condolences to the stalactite. It must have been traumatic to watch that happen to someone you planned to start a column with one day.

geology jokes rock!

@Arduenn

Big deal. I just swallowed a twelve billion year-old water molecule. (And I peed it out again unceremoniously in a toilet bowl.)

well aren’t you a star!
astronomy jokes are far out!

@RickMycroft

Wouldn’t that depend on how live the cave was? If it’s dry most of the time, and only drips during a monsoon of the century, it could be much slower to form.

yes, there is no fixed growth rate, not sure what the above poster was smoking…but i’ll take some.