Sweet! These are the largest mineral crystals on earth.

Apparently, industrial cave spelunkers in Mexico have recently discovered the Fortress of Solitude. We’re talking 36 feet long and 55 tons a piece. Yup. Biggest ever found.

Superman could not be reached for comment.

Seriously, this is why I got into fantasy and sci fi writing as a kid. The natural awe and wonders on this planet are off the charts (and don’t even get me started on cosmology).

You know those geodes you can buy? They look like any old pedestrian rock on the outside, but split in half, are hollowed out and crystallized on the inside. That’s what this reminds me of, only on a building-sized scale.

I remember as a youngster venturing into our backyard and randomly demolishing rocks and or quartzites in a futile effort to find some pretty geode. Nothing doing.

Those guys pictured in cooling suits are living my greatest childhood dreams.

ps – 120 Fahrenheit with about 90 percent humidity up in there.