Superman's Fortress of Solitude Discovered

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Superman's fabled Fortress of Solitude has been depicted in films as a vast complex comprised of enormous crystal beams. Fans know that it built itself from a single crystal in the far north.

Imagine the surprise of miners when they actually found it! Not in the frozen north, but buried a thousand feet below Mexico's Naica mountain in the Chihuahuan desert.

This has been quite a year for Superman fans; the deadly remnants of planet Krypton were discovered in a mine in Serbia this past April (see Kryptonite Discovered By Scientist).

Actually, of course, the Cueva de los Cristales is a purely natural formation consisting of enormous beams of gypsum. Some of the crystals are as long as 36 feet (see photo).

Geologist Juan Manuel Garcia-Ruiz has described the probable origin of the crystals in the journal Geology. The cave was drained by mining operations; for millennia, however, the crystals grew in mineral rich, 136 degree Fahrenheit water.
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Comparison pictures. Shows the one newly discovered and an image of the Fortress from...some Superman movie. Also has a video of the discovery.

So we've found Kryptonite. We've found the Fortress of Solitude. That leaves but one question: Where is Superman?
 
Wow, that's awesome. xD

It'd be hilarious if somebody dressed up as Superman and actually visited the area in which this was found. :p
 
Those are some sweet pictures. It's like that seventh grade science experiment with sugar water on a grand scale.
 
Now if only Dilithium Crystals existed.
 
That's from Tripping the Rift right?
I could have sworn that's where I heard about Dilithium Crystals ... might have been Futurama.
 
Never watched Star Trek.
My guess is Tripping the Rift ripped the idea off of them. Are they used for generatin power in Star Trek?
 
Sort of. They channel the power created by matter/anti-matter reactions.
 
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