• TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    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.

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      2 months ago

      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.

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          2 months ago

          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)