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A blue mineral that grows on buried bodies and confuses archaeologists (2016)
- hn72774 3y agoThere's a "blue babe" mammoth specimen at the UAF museum. It was preserved in permafrost. Same chemistry. https://www.uaf.edu/museum/press/spotlight/blue-babe/ https://www.uaf.edu/museum/press/spotlight/blue-babe/
- dabluecaboose 3y agohttps://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/morbid-monday-fisk-mummy-case https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/morbid-monday-fisk-mum... AO article on the briefly mentioned cast-iron coffin with face window, in case anyone else was curious as I was
- accrual 3y agoTangentially related - the low-poly retro horror game Cave Crawler (2023) touches on this concept (minerals growing on bodies). It's currently $1.99 USD and I thoroughly enjoyed a playthrough. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2282480/Cave_Crawler https://store.steampowered.com/app/2282480/Cave_Crawler
- beretguy 3y agoProtomolecule?
- mkl 3y agoNeat, but I wouldn't call that "vivid".
- gilleain 3y agoI suspect it's a pun on the mineral name ... (Incorrectly, I assumed that the name related to 'vital' - as in 'living' - but apparently not : "It was named by Abraham Gottlob Werner in 1817, the year of his death, after either John Henry Vivian (1785–1855), a Welsh-Cornish politician, mine owner and mineralogist living in Truro, Cornwall, England, or after Jeffrey G. Vivian, an English mineralogist."
- AlecSchueler 3y agoThat said the name Vivian does derive from the Latin name Vivianus, which comes from the Latin word vivus, meaning "alive"
- est 3y agoIIRC there's a theory that blue paint is incredibly expensive in the past.
- gilleain 3y agoSo ultramarine blue (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarine) is made from lapis lazuli which is a semi-precious stone. That was presumably quite expensive.
- QuercusMax 3y agoTIL that the name "ultramarine" is because it came from "beyond the sea" (Afghanistan) from the perspective of Rome. I always figured it was because it's such a deep blue.
- philk10 3y agoRivaled the price of gold and was used on the most important figures eg the Virgin Mary - until a reward was offered for a synthetic version - https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-a-brief-history-of-blue https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-a-brief-histor...
- giantg2 3y agoIt gets darker with increased oxidation/time. It likely was very vivid at one point.
- gilleain 3y agoSo 'vivianite', or hydrated iron (II) phosphate - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivianite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivianite - which apparently undergoes 'internal oxidation' interestingly.
- msrenee 3y agoIt's a pretty cool mineral. I've got a chunk (not from a grave) that's such a dark green it looks black until you shine a light through it.
- Suppafly 3y agoFinally, I came to the comments so I didn't have to read the article and all the comments are just about tracking cookies.
- somedude895 3y agoFunny, I figured the name would be derived from the Latin word for "life", but it's named after a person with the last name Vivian (which itself has roots in said Latin word).
- 1-more 3y agohttps://notes.rolandcrosby.com/posts/unexpectedly-eponymous/ https://notes.rolandcrosby.com/posts/unexpectedly-eponymous/
- Schattenbaer 3y agoAnd vivianite can sometimes be found together with another phosphate and iron mineral called childrenite... named after a John George Children. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childrenite https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childrenite
- admissionsguy 3y agoSoul crystals?
- aargh_aargh 3y agoWow, I got two different cookie consent overlays on android chrome on top of each other. That's a first. They must REALLY care about my privacy.
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- gumby 3y agoThey are being super-solicitous: you need to allow the cookie consent dialogue to record your preferences, using a cookie.
- larodi 3y agoHappily reader mode works just fine with this page.
- Traubenfuchs 3y agohttps://archive.is/l68pV https://archive.is/l68pV
- muffles 3y agoAs each year goes by, I get more and more annoyed by the cookie consent pop-ups. Does U.S. law really require cookie pop-ups? And don't most websites store the cookies before consent is given anyways? https://olivergrimsley.com/2022/03/04/please-stop-putting-cookie-pop-ups-on-your-website/ https://olivergrimsley.com/2022/03/04/please-stop-putting-co...
- texuf 3y ago100%. This also bugs me: Why can’t websites set a cookie that stores whether I’ve consented to the cookie pop up? On some sites I have to keep consenting over and over (IKEA comes to mind).
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- kingspact 3y agoWhat is it? Cloudflare's "protection" has blocked me from being able to see half the Internet lately.
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- lupusreal 3y ago*unilaterally
- dylan604 3y agoyeah, voluntarily felt odd being used in that manner
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- zamadatix 3y agoCan you link these? This kind of comment can mean anything from "6 years ago I was constantly commenting against something they were doing and it kinda happened twice with some employees that are HN regulars and had it in their bios but didn't feel the need to disclose in the first message" to "It's a regular occurrence even despite the number of threads about Cloudflare here and they are often done with freshly created company accounts" or anything in-between. This makes it hard for one to judge for themselves how much of a real issue this has been vs a personal grudge someone might hold against the company. Disclaimer: I don't have a damn thing to do with Cloudflare :).
- PhasmaFelis 3y agoIs that...bad? You don't make it sound unreasonable.
- Delumine 3y agoI know this isn't in the best taste, but a ring made from this material would definitely give mystical vibes.
- oooyay 3y agoOf course, Etsy has a market for this: https://www.etsy.com/market/vivianite_jewelry https://www.etsy.com/market/vivianite_jewelry
- sour-taste 3y agoDon't believe the inners, it's clearly protomolecule: https://expanse.fandom.com/wiki/Protomolecule https://expanse.fandom.com/wiki/Protomolecule
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- bjt12345 3y agoThe protomolecule is such a haunting idea in hard science fiction, even the way that it disassembles and re-assembles human bodies makes perfect sense under assembly theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_theory
- prox 3y agoHa my first response when I read the title!
- corysama 3y agoI was thinking https://horizon.fandom.com/wiki/Bluegleam https://horizon.fandom.com/wiki/Bluegleam
- devsda 3y agoIt's a magicule ore. Probably magisteel. https://tensura.fandom.com/wiki/Magicule https://tensura.fandom.com/wiki/Magicule
- hinkley 3y agoCan't take the Razorback
- nailer 3y agoFlashbacks to Upsteam Color (if anyone hasn’t seen it, it’s the other film from the creator of Primer).
- tleilaxu 3y agoI adore that film. It is nuts, but has a dreamy metaphysical quality to it that I love.