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_lilith@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And yet if you look at 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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  • icelimit@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Interesting. Have you ever looked at beach sand specifically, under a microscope?

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      • icelimit@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yes, different types. Including glacial erosion 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)

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  • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Or Big Magnifier would have you believe.

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• FishFace@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • CatsGoMOW@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    animalsaroundtheglobe.com/why-parrotfish-poop-whi…

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    • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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      • Abyssian@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What a stupid thing to bicker about. Good work, people on the internet. o_O

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      • CatsGoMOW@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Could very well have been other animals over time.

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      • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        How much of all the planet’s sand is on beaches frequenteeed by humans? Perhaps the interesting samples are over-represented but they’re still neat.

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      • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        How does that compare to the quantity of sand already in existence?

        Seeing as there’s now a shortage of water-eroded sand, probably a good portion of it

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• crimson_iris@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And how much of it is at least 50% microplastics now.

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• SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hajabawhat now? How is white sand fish poop? Isn’t it just sand? Or do you mean like the white particles in mixed sand are fish poop?

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  • executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    White sand is fish poop. animalsaroundtheglobe.com/this-fish-eats-coral-an…

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    • lividweasel@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “This fish produces white sand” is pretty far away from “all white sand is produced by fish”.

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• sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Shhhhh, let them believe. It is okay

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