Biggest Lava Lamp in the Universe

Well,ok, maybe not the Universe. But certainly Earth (as we know it Jim). I found this beauty in an auction in North Yorkshire earlier this year. It cost me the princely sum of £8. Including its base it stands about 3 foot tall and has three distinct stages to its up and down swellings. First, it begins as a sort of botanical exhibit, but gradually, after about an hour, it turns into some sci-fi scene in which the main body of wax forms a poddish sort of mothership which smaller pods continually attach and detach to and from. It's weird because the wax in its pod form has a sort of pattern on it, which I have never seen before in lava-land. After a good few hours of this it settles down into an amorphous blob which sits at the bottom of the bottle while tiny bits of plankton like material float up and around in its cobalt blue liquid. Set phasers to stun, Scotty!