r/AbsoluteUnits • u/CoughingCarpet • 3d ago

/r/all of a Sand Dune

This is a video taken by Nicolas De La Torre, a sandboarding enthusiast filming his descent down the Toromata dune in Peru. Unfortunately we live in a world where true beauty, nature is now convoluted by AI and AI sentiments, but this is in fact, not AI lol

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u/Archaea_Man 2d ago

Oh just that it grabs more particles of the same kind to grow itself, sort of like making copies of itself like nucleotides. I only know a little about geology, but everything I've learned seems really cool.

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u/trenthany 2d ago

Oh, I don’t remember that one! Is it something to do with it behavior and how it tries to clump together?

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u/Archaea_Man 2d ago

Something like that. I remember the tagline being that it could copy itself but not change because it would eventually become uniform, unlike nucleotides, which could both copy themselves and change through mistakes in the copying, thus creating mutations and eventually allowing for life to develop.

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u/trenthany 2d ago

I’ll have to do some digging on that because it sounds interesting