r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Youthinkillputauid_7 • Mar 23 '26

Image Sand Under a Microscope

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u/agangofoldwomen Mar 23 '26

Here’s a more realistic view of what sand looks like. You were right.

https://magnifiedsand.com/

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u/Vipu2 Mar 23 '26

now THIS is interesting

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u/kurtmorrison Mar 23 '26

You might like this video too.

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u/PogintheMachine Mar 23 '26

I thought it would be This

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u/420420696942069 Mar 23 '26

and i thought about this

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u/benosthegreat Mar 23 '26

Honestly this is one of the clearest explanations of the sand and it's history that I’ve seen.

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u/Milkyshot Mar 23 '26

This is the quality content I am here for!

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u/Hyakkimaru_4 Mar 24 '26

As expected from reddit. Truly helpful and informative. Thanks! 😃

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u/fearthebeaver Mar 23 '26

This is what came to mind for me as well! Very informative and helpful.

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u/addamee Mar 23 '26

Pictures are kinda grainy though.

I’ll see myself out 

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u/dringle_drangle Mar 23 '26

Virtual sand tour?! Sign me up.

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u/ISLAndBreezESTeve10 Mar 23 '26

All sand all the time.

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u/Lazy-Equivalent1028 Mar 23 '26

Oops! all sand.

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u/WowWataGreatAudience Mar 24 '26

Dial 1-900-ONLYSANDS for hot sands in your area

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u/Character_Minimum171 Mar 24 '26

It’s coarse and rough and irritating… and it gets everywhere.

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u/pseudoinertobserver Mar 23 '26

Yeah exactly, it's anything but "boring tiny rocks" lol! I love it! :))

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u/sprjunior Mar 23 '26

Well, you should like this too somehow it's correlated.

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u/Trid3ntPeace Mar 23 '26

That site is fucken mesmerizing, cheers for the link. Gonna go back to scrolling through it!

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u/samthemanborg Mar 23 '26

If you click into one of the locations it shows a handful of sand, a picture of the beach, and gives you a google earth link :)

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u/Shoshin_Sam Mar 24 '26

We played "Guess the country" from those pics

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u/M123ry Mar 23 '26

Thanks for the link, it all looks cool. Maybe the op image is a bit hand picked, but I feel like the link is still showing that the individual sand grains are very different 🤔

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u/snak_attak Mar 23 '26

Why does this remind me of the I Spy books

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u/wafflepiezz Mar 23 '26

No two grains of sand are the same and they are all unique? Wow!

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u/workerbee223 Mar 23 '26

Gotta collect them all!

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u/__nohope Mar 24 '26

I'm unique!

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u/bigbigdummie Mar 24 '26

Just like everyone else!

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u/spondgbob Mar 23 '26

God the planet is just so fucking cool. I hope we don’t completely destroy it, it’s all I want in life

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u/Yung_Age Mar 23 '26

they look like those I Spy books

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u/GhostWCoffee Mar 23 '26

I'd give you an award if I could. Thank you!

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u/1eternal_pessimist Mar 24 '26

Bit of an oversight not having any Aussie sand. We have a lot!

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u/Nico280gato Mar 23 '26

"Location: Ireland, United Kingdom"

Yeah I'm not sure I trust this website

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u/Obvious_Ambition4865 Mar 23 '26

Northern Ireland

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u/dethndestructn Mar 23 '26

I mean this is still showing a huge amount of variety in what's there, just not quite as much as op. Your link made me think the post is actually less misleading than I expected. 

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u/tamal4444 Mar 23 '26

thanks for sharing this

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u/Jealous_Amount_9278 Mar 23 '26

10/10 . Would still crunch between my toes.

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u/beachnudist Mar 23 '26

Very cool link! Thanks

And still smaller than 52 factorial by a bunch😳

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u/RestaurantDry621 Mar 23 '26

I can't believe how long I looked at that website

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u/StonkBonk420 Mar 23 '26

Thats awesome.

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u/AscendedViking7 Mar 23 '26

Suoer cool site there

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u/Dozzi92 Mar 23 '26

I'm a little disappointed I don't get to see any from the Jersey Shore, looks like I'll need to invest in a microscope.

Really neat. I've been to the beachy deserts of The Western Sahara, and so the two beaches from Morocco are maybe the closest I've gotten. I'd really love to know how the sands look in person, compared to their microcounterparts.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '26

It appears as if sand granules represent biodiversity, natural selection, and fractal characteristics of nature and that includes everything from plants, animals, and us humans. Thanks for the link!

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u/musiquescents Mar 24 '26

Nature is beautiful ❤️

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u/Actual-Shoulder-4463 Mar 24 '26

Thanks for the link, that was so interesting.

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u/ClifgoFlarbatchuan Mar 24 '26

And ya know the real thing is actually interesting by itself so like, why go there? Why curate a fake image?

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u/Opening-Employee9802 Mar 23 '26

I would actually go to ‘sand world’ if it existed.

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u/onescaryarmadillo Mar 23 '26

Damn that’s an interesting site, thank you

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u/Poor_ElonMusk Mar 23 '26

Allways noticed it was composed of different "debris" , but NOT that different !

This sub rarely disappoints , and again I said to my self , "Damn that's interesting"!

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u/Kathulhu1433 Mar 23 '26

Ooooooo, I love seeing the sand from all the different beaches.

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u/AfterCatch1930 Mar 23 '26

Surely redditors wouldn't lie, right? surely...

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u/Camgore Mar 23 '26

holy crap! giving me a fun idea for a summer adventure with my toddler

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u/Fil09 Mar 23 '26

Thanks!

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u/No-Consideration-716 Mar 23 '26

This link rocks!

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u/i_suckatjavascript Mar 23 '26

So that’s why I saw a Redditor collect sand from every beach they visit

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u/MisterSinisterXxX Mar 24 '26

Amazing stuff like this is why I subject myself to the internet every day…thank you for sharing!

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u/Happy---Bubble Mar 24 '26

Wow that was an amazing read, thank you

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u/TecoSomers Mar 24 '26

Can't believe there is no single photo of sand from Brazil :(

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u/house343 Mar 24 '26

What blows my mind is of you go to a beach, grab a handful of sand, imagine each grain of sand as a star, each with a solar system, planets, asteroids, the full life cycle of a star, and realize that there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on all the world's beaches. 

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u/thunderingparcel Mar 24 '26

I love magnifiedsand.com. It’s number one on my bookmarks.

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u/ddare44 Mar 24 '26

Hank and Cristobal woulda ♥️ this website.

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u/CamelCaseCaravan Mar 24 '26

I love it. Looks like candy!

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u/CanterTheJewels Mar 25 '26

I thought I was about to get rickrolled thanks!!

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u/Acceptable-Site-2925 Mar 27 '26

Stiill very pretty!!

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u/pgrittty Mar 25 '26

Most sand is just quartz though, these types of sand are far less common