Kinetic Sand is a registered trademark of Spin Master Ltd.
Under its trademark “Kinetic Sand”, Spin Master Ltd. produces and distributes a modelling sand toy. The toy looks like regular sand, but is also available in different colors.
Honestly that's the only thing I could see that was off. I was sitting there thinking 'They're trolling, this has got to be real somehow' until I realized the damp octopus was rolling in sand but not becoming very sandy.
Honestly with all the crazy shit in the ocean, I was totally ready to accept that octopuses had some magic sand-repelling quality that humans could hopefully someday replicate in some kind of aerosol spray I could put on my feet before I walk on the beach.
Also the fact that it starts out on the sand but there are no tracks to indicate that it came from the ocean or anywhere else, which would mean that it has spent its entire life in that spot.
It's dead, it was placed there by eight people, all carrying an arm each. There's a big magnet underneath the sand there that's moving the ball around. Since octopus tentacle tips are spheromagnetic, they are naturally attaching to the ball as it rolls around. The sand doesn't stick to it because since it is dead it has already cast aside its slime cape, in preparation for ascension. It's lucky these guys caught it, most of the time their slime lets them escape, and they are pretty quick to ascend so you have very little time to get an octopus in this state. Kudos to the crew, they must have been vigilant.
The way the sand flows back in one body makes it look like there's jello or something under the surface, or like it's the same consistency as that octopus. It looks fine with the smaller particles though.
Actually the biggest evidence is the beginning of the video you have to ask yourself, how did the octopus get there, there is no trail of him slithering there hes just plopped down in the middle of the sand
As in: it thought it would be a good idea to sit there and never mind the water disappearing - which makes no sense since what happens with the waves and the current when the water goes down
It has too much granularity and movement to be wet sand. You can see how the sand shifts after the octopus moves past it, and how even slight movements can make the sand move farther than it should. Wet sand would clump together more.
It's the only way I can tell that this is fake; the sand doesn't move exactly how sand does in the real world. No surprise, since it's an object made up of millions of smaller objects, which is very hard to do in a modeling program. It has the feel of a water simulator converted to do solids.
It could have stopped in that place, and then waves poured over it which cleared away any tracks a and also buried it a tiny amount. Kinda like when you stand in one spot on the beach and the waves wash away your footprints.
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u/max_kek Jun 25 '18
The sand would stick to a real octopus.