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[–] 30 points 4 months ago (4 children)

And yet if you look at https://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.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Interesting. Have you ever looked at beach sand specifically, under a microscope?

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago*

    Yes, different types. Including glacial erosion, core samples and other sediments. Some are interesting, most are unremarkable to the layman. To academics, they are interesting for the story they tell (shat out of parrotfish for example)

    That said, there are many types of beach sand, and within a single stretch of beach, different types as well, segregated by depth for example. They are very interesting for the story behind them. Sort of like how "everyone is unique".

    The pictures that everyone is amazed at are relatively low magnification. If those grains were indeed so varied in their shape and colour, they would be easily visible to the naked eye.

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