magnifiedsand.com shows you magnified different sand from different beaches across the world. Youre welcome
Doing it now
Submitted 2 months ago by LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone to science_memes@mander.xyz
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phonics@lemmy.world 2 months ago
grausames_G@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months 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 2 months ago
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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 2 months ago
Those were awesome. Great now I’m all nostalgic
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 2 months 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 2 months ago
i have the exact same vacuum tube thats on the image
Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Bottom left looks like a friendly chap
jagged@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Boobies
webp@mander.xyz 2 months ago
I specialize it viewing your boobies. Don’t worry, I’m a scientist
ignotum@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Neurons activated
Endorphins released
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
they all look so derpy.
FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Sifl and Olly was an awesome show.
daannii@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Hule@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Very pretty! Why are so many translucent?
ragingHungryPanda@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 2 months 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 2 months ago
oh yayyyy! how delightful! =D
espurr@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
not sure why but these photos creep me outttt
kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months 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 2 months ago
And I thought the bug sub creeped me out.
Marternus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Or Big Magnifier would have you believe.
FishFace@piefed.social 2 months 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 2 months ago
animalsaroundtheglobe.com/why-parrotfish-poop-whi…
crimson_iris@piefed.social 2 months ago
And how much of it is at least 50% microplastics now.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months 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 2 months ago
White sand is fish poop. animalsaroundtheglobe.com/this-fish-eats-coral-an…
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Shhhhh, let them believe. It is okay