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icelimit@lemmy.ml 3 days agoThat 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 days ago
Interesting. Have you ever looked at beach sand specifically, under a microscope?
icelimit@lemmy.ml 3 days 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)