Or Big Magnifier would have you believe.
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TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoAnd 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.
can@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Interesting. Have you ever looked at beach sand specifically, under a microscope?
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)