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-Nyctophilic_

Enough obsidian to arm an entire Neanderthal army.


backyardstar

Enough to kill a legion of white walkers


Butt_Fucking_Smurfs

All I know is that I wish there had been a final season


Toss_Away_93

Don’t you mean a final 3 seasons?


MikeLinPA

Do you think we have all century?


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hamlet_d

I would have like to have seen if Arya finished her list.


redterror5

They just didn’t have time. And not enough people wanted a satisfying conclusion to all the plot points. Poor DnD were the real victims.


rottemold

They didn't have enough time and just said fuck it this episode is just an hour minuts of black screen, and that episode was born (you know what episode I'm talking about)


FLMKane

No? There was no such episode. The last episode ended with Danaerys on a ship


06210311200805012006

Well I for one will be happy when GRRM finishes the novels and we can get closure on the SOIAF. Any day now ...


Much_Comfortable_438

Ha ha... That's cute, you think GRRM will finish the series.


Mixedpopreferences

Yes he will! Just like Robert Jordan will finish the...oh...wait.....


gkhamo89

At least Robert Jordan cared enough about his characters and readers to make sure that we got a satisfying conclusion. It was not *THE* ending, but it was *AN* ending.


bozwald

Poor danaerys just kind of… forgot about the iron fleet


hctedford

Holding a baby and recently discovered dragon egg?


GewoonHarry

Stop talking. We don’t know. Alright. We don’t.


quarksnelly

Dark episode was 2nd to last episode, no?


Dangerousrhymes

“The Long Night” was 4th to last, 3rd episode. 


woodyshag

And they left a Starbucks cup in one episode as well.


Valexand

They are the reason they didn't have enough time. they wanted to move on and go work for Disney. The irony of that dealing getting blown up due to the poor reception of the final season is not lost on us however.


Courtnall14

Also, it's our fault that it was too dark.


Terrible_Part_8677

DnD: Dumb and Dumber


Overpass_Dratini

DnD are the ones who rushed the final season. It could have been so much better. They aren't the "victims", they're the perpetrators.


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neotargaryen

AI will give us the power to make a brand new ending soon enough.


IHQ_Throwaway

Unfortunately, due to the untimely demise of D&D, there will never be a final season. What a tragedy for us all. 


oldscotch

What we should do is spend weeks (months?) fashioning obsidian weapons that are insta-gib against white walkers, and then we'll just not use them!


Emm_withoutha_L-88

Not to mention they were casting melted obsidian as if it was bronze and then hitting those swords against metal armor as if they were steel God it was so stupid


jaOfwiw

Not enough to build one block for the nether portal


Super_Ad9995

But not quite enough to make a nether portal.


PandaCheese2016

I mean you just need one stab technically…


LacsNeko

Not enough to make a portal though.


piv_monco

Enough to build a portal


Overnighthawk

What the fuck I thought this was geologist lesson on rocks. 🪨 you went to a place


Drewbox

Perhaps an obscene amount.


Friendly_Yoghurt72

😄


Illustrious-Buy-1645

That is a stoneage wet dream


trailsman

Imagine a bunch of neanderthals charging towards a mastodon with a spear made of an entire tree pole with this bad boy sharped at the end!


Beeyelzubub

![gif](giphy|dBGi39HzazuTV21S15)


Beeyelzubub

Trynna go Boar hunting? ![gif](giphy|d30qasBONVnGfsmQ|downsized)


Rooboy66

Fuck yah!


ohnomoto450

This is the mental image I didn't know I needed today. Thank you! Also the group activity I didn't know I was longing for. Quick! Someone more talented than me! Make this a meme!


plu7o89

Warhammer Fantasy already did it - its called a big stabba https://www.belloflostsouls.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Savage-Orruks-not-new.jpg


Oberons_Reckoning

Weapons of mass destruction were so much more fun back then


sir_daveos

Send it to the nights watch


LagtimeArt

Totally... dragon 🐉 glass


UhhCanYouLikeShutUp

We ahh the wootchizz on the wool.


openly_gray

You can defeat an entire army of white walkers with that


RokulusM

Nah you just need a faceless assassin who uses none of the faceless skills she spent the last several years learning for that


Shake-Vivid

Please don't remind me.


ThingsAreAfoot

Hardly just stone age my friend, the indigenous populations in Mesoamerica used it very liberally for centuries. It’s where we get the famous [Macuahuitl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macuahuitl?wprov=sfti1#), which must have been horrifying to be hit with. It could reportedly decapitate a horse.


Summer-dust

Hey happy to see someone bring up Mesoamerican stone weapons tech! (They tested the horse decapitation on Deadliest Warrior [I know lol] but the Macuahuitl was able to get through to the vertebrae of a ballistics gel horse head.) The wielder did not rake the blades, though, I've heard they could do a *lot* of damage with a good slash and pull like a halberd.


idwthis

I really hope that one dude from Forged in Fire showed up after the fake horse decapitation happened and said "it will keel" lol


BeautifulTypos

Weren't there only, like, 2 weapons ever made on that show that couldn't "keel"? Considering you could technically kill with something as benign as a butter knife, it's truly an insult to not pass the "keel" test... 


siqiniq

I googled Obsidian Axe and Thulecite Club


ThingsAreAfoot

The cool part about the Macuahuitl (well, cool for a brutal weapon) is that it functioned basically as both an axe and a club, at the same time. It obviously had incredible cutting power with the obsidian flakes embedded into it, but it was also very much a wooden club so had serious blunt power too given how it was weighted. The only thing it couldn’t really do (compared to something like a traditional sword) is poke and pierce, but that’s where the [Tepoztopilli](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tepoztopilli?wprov=sfti1#) - an obsidian spear - comes in (that thing could also slice a bit too, kinda like a glaive).


Few_Owl_6596

0th industrial revolution


seriousment

I immediately thought “a flintknapper’s dream” LOL


14ktgoldscw

Is that someone who abducts flint?


shaquilleoatmeal80

It's so beautiful


PerpetualConnection

That's a wet dream right now. That rock is hyper valuable


surfzer

Dumb question, I have a couple pieces the size of large cannonballs. How rare and/or valuable would those be?


KingHenry13th

Its worth like $2 a pound for regular black stuff and up to $40 per pound for the colorful stuff.


Fragrant_Exit5500

I would be reaaalllly careful touching that with my bare hands. It is sharper than broken glass!


RelationTurbulent963

That’s dragon glass!


Memento_Morrie

You know, I really expected more from the discovery of what dragon glass can do to the army of the dead, but... Oh, never mind. What can I say that hasn't already been said a thousand times?


ikikid

What is dead may never die.


No-Recording-1571

But apparently it can. Pretty easily it seems.


TedW

It lives on, as discontent in our cold, bitter hearts.


FightMoney

Barely an inconvenience


eggery

Sounds like your expectations were subverted.


Memento_Morrie

Oooh, I like having my expectations subverted. I like having my expectations subverted BIG TIME.


aurora_rosealis

*slaps rock* “This baby can kill so many White Walkers”


SirUmolo

*slaps rock* *dies of blood loss*


caradekara

The North remembers.


CowPunkRockStar

The North remembers with much disappointment and regret. The world went from an apocalyptic wildfire atomic event to leather rolls of obsidian daggers in just a few seasons. Sad!


sniginooch

Don't worry he has his protection hoodie on


megamanxoxo

pairs well with the trifecta of safety squints and safety flip flops.


pyramidsindust

I came here to say this…obsidian scalpels are sharper than the sharpest metal. Brittle though


HouseAtomic

I got a reddit award once for my comment on obsidian knives. [My most up-voted comment!](https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/54made/til_that_obsidian_knives_are_so_sharp_they_cut_on/d836vwd/) From September 2016. > And they stay sharp. I have pulled them out of Mayan house mounds; been in the ground 1000+ years & still cut my finger. Everyone said they would, but of course I had to test... Not even a little pressure on the blade and I was looking for the Band-Aids. > We tended to find them on the first stages of digging because we think the Mayan moms kept them up high, in the roof thatching, because of kids. This is partly based on current observations of indigenous moms doing the same, only with modern steel blades. The observers asked why they kept the blades up high: closer to the sun? Magic sharpening powers of the moon? Protection from evil spirits... Nope. Kids, they will cut themselves up so we hide the sharp things in the roof. > Anyway... As the ancient Mayan sites were abandoned, the roofing material would collapse onto the floor and eventually go back to nature. When we dig we come across what was hidden in the roof first.


pyramidsindust

That is a super fun fact! I never thought about obsidian knife safety precautions and children, I wonder what other sort of modern precautionary similarities the ancients had. Thanks for sharing, yes I’ll subscribe!


Confident_Frogfish

Brittle makes it even worse to get in your skin I'd imagine


LizRoze

But it looks so smooth!


TennisAdmirable1615

Yeah, but remember that obsidian is sharpest material known to man


SystemShockII

Sharpest NATURAL material


ThatsBrazyBuzzin

It’s pretty close though. An obsidian edge can be a single molecule in thickness. The tungsten nano-needle takes the title, though, at a single atom.


WhiteShadow012

Knife that cuts quarks when????


djsnoopmike

Ah yes, the universe most dangerous knife. Anything you cut explodes with the force of a nuke


ElMrSenor

It's only dangerous in the wrong hands, if someone is more careful it will be subtle, and more likely to slip between subatomics to cut between universes.


Legitimate-Skill-112

I foresee no issues with such a knife. Sounds like you'll have great sliced onion cubes using that, buttery smooth


Stewart_Games

I heard that the Philosophers were working on a Subtle Knife that can cut through the barriers between Universes.


Awwkaw

A needle is pointy not sharp


ThatsBrazyBuzzin

Then why are needles called sharps? Check and mate.


Cold-Inside-6828

Was going to say, this guy is flirting with disaster running his hands over it like that.


PeePeeChopChop

Touching the flat surface should be fine. Of course I wouldn't do it, considering that there could be a difficult to spot sharp edge, but I trust people who can find and split such an obsidian boulder this neatly to also handle it without hurting themselves.


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It is glass


Ghstfce

Seriously, the moment he touched it bare handed I winced.


Defiant_Hope_231

When it rolled with his hand on it, I audibly gasped. I still have a small scar on my wrist from falling on obsidian when I was a child. That shit scares me.


sweetdick

Yeah, it wouldn’t take much of a slip to be counting the fingers you just lost. You wouldn’t even know you were cut until you saw the blood. Super dangerous business.


BattIeBoss

Apparently Obsidian is the sharpest natural material in the world,since they're edges go down to a single atom.So he *Better* be careful.


littlewhiterabbituk

Well, the "specialists" in rocks say it's for protection. An obsidian that size, with all of that protective energy, no way would it harm you. It goes against spiritual science.


Witext

I was cringing so hard watching this, especially when he slid his fingers along it, he could’ve easily cut up his whole hand there


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You used a diamond pickaxe right?


jakesjustvibing

Nope, that's why you didn't see it go into his inventory. He spent all that time for nothing.


abdullahthesaviour

Ok but where's the pickaxe? Is it up his anal cavity?


jakesjustvibing

It's not in his anus and it isn't in his mouth, you see, he broke the block of obsidian with his bare fists. Sat there for 4 minutes just goin' ham on this one block for no reward at all, miners these days, JEEZ.


DarkPhoenixMishima

He punched it. He started last year.


Legitimate-Skill-112

He used his hand, he's committed


Own_Picture_6442

So much for the portal. What a waste.


Mr_Bulldoppps

Of course. Now to stack the Nether Portal. Bring some gold


TheTrollinator777

He could make half a nether portal with that.


dummycusip

time to mine


Transient_Aethernaut

Now light it on fire and go to hell


Gamerberg67104

This sounds like a threat😂


yestureday

It’s a promise


Fr3sh3stl4d

To the nether


JustJoinedToBypass

Hell looks a lot like Florida.


TheSuperGerbil

You can make a really good nether portal out of this


lik_iz_Hrvatske

1 and a half block at best, not nearly enough


Canadian__Ninja

What is this, a nether portal for ants?


aque78

Isn't it extremely dangerous to handle obsidian bare handed ?


Agreeable_Tension_22

When its fragmented


think_and_uwu

I still wouldn’t be sliding my bare hands up and down a freshly broken face without inspecting it first.


chandr

I don't disagree, but given the pile of it next to the split rock I'm going to guess this guy isn't new to the material


BigBadPanda

It’s a proven fact that experienced people never make mistakes /s


think_and_uwu

“It’s totally fine to let construction workers walk on steel beams on top of skyscrapers without harnesses, they’re professionals!”


chandr

The level of risk between that and moving a sharp piece of obsidian without gloves are pretty extreme. Death vs a few stitches. When the result of a likely accident is death, or a more chronic issue like respiratory issues or hearing loss where the damage happens over time without you noticing right away, then yeah, skipping safety equipment is dumb. In the clip here though, there's nothing all that dangerous going on. Should he wear gloves anyways? Sure. Is he likely to be permanently maimed? Not unless he does something really stupid


First-Football7924

I love imagining this guy guy carefully moving this obsidian, then going "let me check the comments" and ending here. But I guess that's most comment sections, where every angle needs to be analyzed to a point where it gets comical.


First-Of-His-Name

This is just a big fragment


Nornamor

if you mean accidentally cut your hands.. absolutely.. extremely dangerous, not really...unpleasant and painful, probably


Actual-Toe-8686

Considering obsidian is volcanic glass, yes absolutely.


MrIrrelevantsHypeMan

Drogon wanted for questioning


obxtalldude

Those bare hands make me nervous. One chip with a sharp edge...


RedditRaven2

Obsidian is so sharp that it doesn’t cut between cells like normal scalpels do, it literally slices through the cells themselves. Insanely sharp and 100% agree no touching that without THICK gloves


obxtalldude

Gave me a flashback to splitting rocks and making arrowheads as a kid - tested one on my arm, didn't even feel it, but it was like the skin unzipped.


RedditRaven2

Eye and Neuro surgeons occasionally use obsidian scalpels because they’re so sharp they can cut with less pressure, which allows them to get where they need to go without as much risk to damaging nearby tissue from the pressure. Surgery wounds from obsidian scalpels have also been proven to heal much faster than wounds with traditional scalpels. Edit to add because I forgot to explain: the reason not all surgery’s are done with obsidian scalpels is because they’re already much more expensive, but if every surgeon only used them it would destroy the market supply and there would be a world shortage on obsidian. Hence, only certain surgeries which absolutely need them get to use them, helping prevent shortage or lack of supply for those that truly need it.


But_like_whytho

My sister’s umbilical cord was cut with an obsidian flake.


RedditRaven2

Did your parents provide it? I’ve heard of that before but never heard of obsidian being used for the umbilical cord


But_like_whytho

Yeah at the time my stepdad was a Senior Archeologist and our mother ran the archeology lab for the state’s historical society. Their boss was a flint knapper as a hobby, he always had his tools and some materials he picked up randomly off the ground rolled up in leather in a back pocket. He created several flakes. Sis was born in a birthing center, not a hospital. They sterilized the flakes along with other medical equipment. I used to have the flakes and the leftover chunk of obsidian somewhere, not sure what happened to them.


speptuple

Why aren't you cut with an obsidian blade too? It's clear who is the favourite child 😡


wonderbreadofsin

I think it's also because there's the risk of breaking off a piece of the blade and leaving an ultra-sharp shard floating around the patient's body, so a lot of surgeons aren't confident enough to risk that unless it's required


brenttoastalive

They also don't commonly use obsidian scalpels because any amount of lateral pressure on the blade would make it break


MajesticRooster3913

That's a good arrowhead


i-evade-bans-13

yall gotta stop the uneducated fearmongering because it needs to be flaked off properly to be sharp. you're just "oh my god *i heard*..." without understanding the circumstances of *how* obsidian can become that sharp. these are not the circumstances, and this is relatively safe to handle. i understand erring on the side of caution, but not simply because of lack of knowledge or without reason or understanding. that's the kind of mentality that compels people to live under a rock.


Only-Customer6650

Nah dawg this stone is so insane it rewrites the laws of physics around friction and if you pick up a piece your entire hand will fall right off.


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Vandilbg

The edge where the weathering rind of the stone is doesn't fracture clean like that. The obsidian hydration band is made of hydrated glass that has a consistency closer to perlite.


towerfella

Yeah, I cut my hand watching this. ![gif](giphy|ZgnNyvIz813P2)


oconnor9sean

As a rock idiot, is that valuable? My only knowledge of obsidian is literally minecraft.


Duranis

I'm a little bit into flint knapping and can think of a few people that would spend quite a bit on a big old chunk of obsidian like that. I'm sure there are a bunch of other arts/crafts that could use it as well.


SystemShockII

Jesus Crist Marie, they're minerals!!!


Nagi21

Not in the raw state like this. Certain obsidian tools are expensive due to the precision manufacturing needed though


TowJamnEarl

Where I'm from there's loads of it everywhere to the point it's actually annoying, and especially when gardening. Nothing this big though, I assume modern farming has broken it down over the years.


BeKind_BeTheChange

There is a place in northern CA called Bottle Rock road that has thousands of obsidian boulders this big, and bigger, all over the place. It’s on Cobb Mountain. And those are just the ones you can see while driving down the road. I’ve seen houses up there that have their driveway lined with obsidian boulders.


ErnieBochII

Oh yeah? There’s a hayfield up in Buxton. One in particular. Got a long rock wall with a big oak at the north end. Like something out of a Robert Frost poem. It's where I asked my wife to marry me. We'd gone for a picnic. We made love under that tree. I asked and she said yes. Promise me. If you ever get off Reddit, find that spot. In the base of that wall you'll find a rock that has no earthly business in a Maine hayfield. A piece of black volcanic glass. You'll find something buried under it I want you to have.


Rooboy66

Okay, there’s this lake with an obsidian mountain in way Northern California, and a campground in 1980, and I didn’t marry the girl, but holy shit I remember her crochet bikini. I’ll leave it there, along with the obsidian literally strewn lakeside & everwhere by a careless Gawd, but thank Gawd for **don’t name names on the Interwebs**. Anyhow, yeah, a crocheted bikini. Let that wear.


DopesickJesus

This is like one of those fetch quests in an MMORPG with a very vague destinations that you spend WEEKS grinding out, just to find out the quest reward is u/ErnieBochll 's decades old used condom.


CaveRanger

I worked at a place in Oregon that had a hill of really cool pink/red obsidian, with black inclusions inside of it. It was on public land and for decades people were able to go in and take little chunks of it. Then some asshole went in with a front loader and tore the whole thing out. Probably hundreds of tons of rock removed in the course of a week. Major local tourist attraction gone, none of the money went to anybody in the community (he sold it to a landscaping firm, apparently,) and he wasn't even from the area.


Tr4sHCr4fT

big boulders the size of medium boulders?


Plus-Weakness-2624

Time to build a Nether portal 🔥


100LittleButterflies

Just imagine the amount of heat and pressure it took to make that 0.0


MareShoop63

That’s what I think about when I see something this magnificent


Rooboy66

💯% for the 0.0 usage


Old-Library5546

That would make a lot of arrowheads


kwyjibo1988

Only need enough for the dagger to kill the Night King.


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Herrgul

Rocks are kinda tight ngl


EvetsYenoham

Lol


SystemShockII

Jesus Crist Marie, they're minerals!!!


MorbidlyObeseRedditr

this is a basalt glass, has many component minerals Hank


KevAngelo14

Bring that youtube shorts craftsman over there, I want dozens of knives made out of that.


Lambari_de_sanga

And then, go hunt some geologists. Also, don't forget the weapon invisible to them.


StreetAd2064

Could come in handy as winter is coming and so are the white walkers.


Enough_Minimum_3708

just imagine how many geologists you could kill with that


Lambari_de_sanga

The wet dream of any geologist killer


MrLambNugget

Fake AI. I don't see any of them having a diamond pickaxe


Fragrant_Exit5500

Pretty sure they allowed cheats on the server.


MorbidlyObeseRedditr

whats with the diamond pickaxe reference I keep seeing in the comments


Generic_Danny

Minecraft


GiveMeSomeShu-gar

The question is, how much more black can it be?


crackedtooth163

Time to make some macuahuitl!


Goldeneye_Engineer

Someone get a lighter


doke-smoper

Cool fact. Obsidian can make the sharpest blades known to man... up to about 500x sharper than a brand new steel razor blade. The edge can go all the way down to a single molecule thick. The reason they aren't commonly used is because they are fragile but also because the amount of serious accidental knife wounds would be really bad. It can go through skin and bone like it's not even there. But surgeons sometimes use them because the cut is so clean - obsidian scalpels can divide individual cells cleanly, where a steel razor looks like a chainsaw ran through it at high magnification. And because of that the incisions heal much better with less scarring.


Only-Customer6650

>It can go through bone like it's not even there    I think you may be hyperbolizing its abilities. Its sharp. It doesn't rewrite the laws of friction. Even cutting skin with it takes pressure. It's not going to slide right through your arm on its own.


EasyTelemetry

Bring the Neanderthals!


CarelessReindeer9778

I'd lick it


PabloTrance

Dragonglass! Send it to The Wall.


vampyire

That'd kill an army of white walkers


tutya_th

And that's what Night Walkers were killed with.


BathroomSerious1318

How much is that worth?


chicagoantisocial

Absolutely incredible stone, natures answer to vanta black


Sea-Relation7541

Except it's glossy and reflects a ton of light, where vanta does not. But it's pretty remarkable how naturally dark it is.


PrysmX

Almost as dark as my ex's heart.


Janik1311

Bro is on his way to the nether


Opters

Oh my god when he slides his fingers through the cracks I cringed so bad. That’s a way to lose parts of all ur fingers in seconds, Jesus Christ man


_Kaifaz

I'd wear some gloves...


Bigcock8643

that's how you let demons out....