magnifiedsand.com shows you magnified different sand from different beaches across the world. Youre welcome
Doing it now
Submitted 3 weeks ago by LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone to science_memes@mander.xyz
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phonics@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
grausames_G@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Those were awesome. Great now I’m all nostalgic
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
i have the exact same vacuum tube thats on the image
Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Bottom left looks like a friendly chap
jagged@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Boobies
webp@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
I specialize it viewing your boobies. Don’t worry, I’m a scientist
ignotum@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Neurons activated
Endorphins released
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
they all look so derpy.
FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Sifl and Olly was an awesome show.
daannii@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Hule@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Very pretty! Why are so many translucent?
ragingHungryPanda@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
oh yayyyy! how delightful! =D
espurr@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
not sure why but these photos creep me outttt
kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
And I thought the bug sub creeped me out.
Marternus@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Or Big Magnifier would have you believe.
FishFace@piefed.social 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
animalsaroundtheglobe.com/why-parrotfish-poop-whi…
crimson_iris@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
And how much of it is at least 50% microplastics now.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
White sand is fish poop. animalsaroundtheglobe.com/this-fish-eats-coral-an…
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Shhhhh, let them believe. It is okay