Maybe its quicksand with just the right density for worming.
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MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I don’t see how this thing could burrow into sand?
bstix@feddit.dk 1 month ago
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
The people run quick for quicksand.
bstix@feddit.dk 1 month ago
Yes, my idea is that the sand is dense enough that anything lighter than a huge gigaton worm would not feel the fluidity. Like insects walking on water.
Anyway, I just searched it, thinking that someone else might have an idea, and it turns out that the biological explaination is that they’re not worms, but legless lizards.
laurelraven@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Maybe the sand is the opposite of a non-newtonian fluid, is solid at rest but becomes basically fluid with vibration
Though I imagine sand would naturally behave this way if it isn’t packed too densely
FreeBeard@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
It’s the Sound they make and a phenomenon called Sand liquification . Basically it means that Vibrations and Air turn Sand in a liquid like state.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Ah, so that’s the “drill”.
Huh, that could actually work.