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MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• FreeBeard@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ah, so that’s the “drill”.

    Huh, that could actually work.

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• bstix@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Maybe its quicksand with just the right density for worming.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The people run quick for quicksand.

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    • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

      uc.edu/…/uc-biologist-sheds-light-on-biology-of-d….

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      • laurelraven@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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