magnifiedsand.com shows you magnified different sand from different beaches across the world. Youre welcome
Doing it now
Submitted 5 days ago by LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone to science_memes@mander.xyz
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phonics@lemmy.world 5 days ago
grausames_G@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
That is really cool, thank you. Also it shows that, as some other comments said, the picture of the post are sorted, but also there are beaches with a high shell content.
psycotica0@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
I miss those tbh. A lot of them had cool Rupe-Goldberg-esque contraptions and I would spend a lot of time trying to piece together how they’d work
0ops@piefed.zip 5 days ago
Those were awesome. Great now I’m all nostalgic
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
That makes me think of a mobile game that is somewhat soothing. It’s called “A little to the left: Cupboards and drawers” It’s an okay game of you like sorting things.
Tiger_Man_@szmer.info 4 days ago
i have the exact same vacuum tube thats on the image
Zerush@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Bottom left looks like a friendly chap
jagged@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Boobies
webp@mander.xyz 5 days ago
I specialize it viewing your boobies. Don’t worry, I’m a scientist
ignotum@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Neurons activated
Endorphins released
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
they all look so derpy.
FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Sifl and Olly was an awesome show.
daannii@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I too have a fondness of tiny worlds.
Diatoms.
My gawd. Do you know about diatoms ?
And there is a guy who makes art with them. youtu.be/qxkbSk--EUY?is=mXHpUGS7ghbE_xAM
Deebster@infosec.pub 4 days ago
I hadn’t heard of him, diatoms, or the fact the Victorians were making microscopic art, so thanks for sharing.
It seems he passed away three years ago, but had a fascinating life: isdr.org/in-memory-of-our-friend-and-colleague-kl…
ragingHungryPanda@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 5 days ago
Hule@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Very pretty! Why are so many translucent?
ragingHungryPanda@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 4 days ago
I think a lot of it came from the dessert and surrounding areas. Namibia has a somewhat strange condition where the wind moves today the ocean then back inland throughout the day, so some of it I think is from the land. This was also near the famous beach area where the tide comes in very quickly and you may have seen vehicles trying to race the tide to get to higher ground. I think also near there was a salt processing facility. So, I’m not exactly sure, but it was pretty!
Nima@leminal.space 5 days ago
oh yayyyy! how delightful! =D
espurr@sopuli.xyz 5 days ago
not sure why but these photos creep me outttt
kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
That’s interesting, it doesn’t creep me out but I can certainly see it, maybe something about the unknown of what the seemingly homogenous sand truly is. A world beyond what we can see, that we are ignorant to but that always has, and always will be there. Almost eldritch in a way.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
And I thought the bug sub creeped me out.
Marternus@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
It’s so much better if u watch it in a (real) binocular microscope so u can see it in 3D and turn it around.
_lilith@lemmy.world 5 days ago
This isn’t any more true than it was 15 years ago when I first saw it on imgur. Those are close ups of small shells found in some tropical sand that have been separated from regular sand. Sand isn’t fucking magic its small rocks.
Also white sand is fish poop.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 days 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.
icelimit@lemmy.ml 3 days 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.
can@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Or Big Magnifier would have you believe.
FishFace@piefed.social 5 days 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.
CatsGoMOW@lemmy.world 5 days ago
animalsaroundtheglobe.com/why-parrotfish-poop-whi…
crimson_iris@piefed.social 5 days ago
And how much of it is at least 50% microplastics now.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days 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?
executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
White sand is fish poop. animalsaroundtheglobe.com/this-fish-eats-coral-an…
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
Shhhhh, let them believe. It is okay