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This isn’t any more true than it was 15 years ago when I first saw it on imgur. Those are close ups of small shells found in some tropical sand that have been separated from regular sand. Sand isn’t fucking magic its small rocks.
Also white sand is fish poop.
And yet if you look at https://magnifiedsand.com/ it is insanely cool and not too different from the images in this post. I don’t think that entire website is fraudulent. Glad I didn’t see your comment first because it would’ve turned me off of even looking into this further. When I did look into it further, I was thrilled.
That is very heavily curated to make every picture interesting. Take a scoop from your nearest beach and it doesn’t look anywhere near as dramatic. Sauce: I run a lab with fancy microscopes.
Your skin is infinitely more populated. Especially under your fingernails.
Interesting. Have you ever looked at beach sand specifically, under a microscope?
Yes, different types. Including glacial erosion, core samples and other sediments. Some are interesting, most are unremarkable to the layman. To academics, they are interesting for the story they tell (shat out of parrotfish for example)
White sand is calcium carbonate that has been eroded down to sand size particles. One way that happens is by parrot fish grinding it up, but weathering surely created the vast majority of it.
https://www.animalsaroundtheglobe.com/why-parrotfish-poop-white-sand-5-358789/
“On the Great Barrier Reef, for example, researchers estimate that parrotfish are responsible for producing over 85% of the new sand generated annually.”
How does that compare to the quantity of sand already in existence? There was a long period of time (millions and millions of years) when there were no parrotfish, but billions of tons of calcium carbonate being eroded by the weather.
What a stupid thing to bicker about. Good work, people on the internet. o_O
I didn’t read it as bickering at all, just two people with an interest in sand, trying to get to the truth.
I might be extra cranky. I hate sand.
Fuck off, Anakin.
Then why keep reading about it and then lash out when you don’t even understand what you are reading…? There was no bickering.
Here’s one I took in Namibia!
and another, how it looks
More interesting your skin under the microscope, better for your endorphines.
You are never alone
Bottom left looks like a friendly chap
they all look so derpy.
Boobies
I specialize it viewing your boobies. Don’t worry, I’m a scientist
https://magnifiedsand.com/ shows you magnified different sand from different beaches across the world. Youre welcome
Something about this reminds me if the I Spy books of my youth:
i have the exact same vacuum tube thats on the image
That makes me think of a mobile game that is somewhat soothing. It’s called “A little to the left: Cupboards and drawers” It’s an okay game of you like sorting things.
