Fun Quiz

[Angel]

Do you know what my avatar picture is? It's pretty awesome!

 

[cyberjosh]

Oh, good one, because each time you change your avatar the question will take on new meaning! ;)

Anyway... Tiny shells? Gem pebbles? A Kalieodoscope? What you see when someone hits you really hard on the head?!

 

[farouk]

Do you know what my avatar picture is? It's pretty awesome!

Angel: It looks like a collection of pebbles including those of amber, with one stone shaped in the form of a heart.

Blessings.

 

[Angel]

LOL @ CyberJosh

Close Farouk!

My avatar is actually magnified sand! Amazing, isn't it!

 

[farouk]

LOL @ CyberJosh

Close Farouk!

My avatar is actually magnified sand! Amazing, isn't it!

Wow, so it's not quite visible to the naked eye, then. Looks like a carved heart to me, anyway.

Blessings.

 

[Claudya]

Pffff. Chemically sand IS tiny pepples and remnants of shells. :p
They were both right. You owe Josh and Farouk a cookie.

 

[Angel]

LOL

 

[Claudya]

Well it's really an amazing image and I wouldn't have thought sand is so awesome.
This thread just made me google and read up on sand. If you google for "magnified sand" images there are many more incredible pictures of sand grains seen through a microscope. It seems the size and colour of the grains depends a lot on what kind of stone they are the remnants of, but usually it's some quartz material, plus organic material (shells. limestone and corals). The fine white sand of tropical beaches is made of organic material almost entirely.
It's a nice show of God's creativity, making even the smallest things so diverse and colourfull.

And contrary to what we have seen in adventure fiction humans cannot die in quicksand. You'd just sink to your hips and be totally stuck there, you'd have to wait for someone to show up with a shovel or with a hose to pump water into the sand.

Here's a website with lots more amazing sand grains under the microscope:
http://www.sandgrains.com/sand-grains-gallery.html

 

[jasoncran]

what type of beach sand? there are different types. most of the beach where I live doesn't have the sand from the ocean but it is shipped from California. of course, given time the ocean removes that sand.

 

[Angel]

Claudya,

Nice job digging up on sand particles... if you can call them that. Very interesting. It is a truly awesome thing- sand is. God is amazing!

 

[farouk]

what type of beach sand? there are different types. most of the beach where I live doesn't have the sand from the ocean but it is shipped from California. of course, given time the ocean removes that sand.

I understand that some group or other exported a load of sand to Saudi Arabia.

They said that Saudi Arabia had the wrong sort of sand for their building work, or whatever...

 

[jasoncran]

I understand that some group or other exported a load of sand to Saudi Arabia.

They said that Saudi Arabia had the wrong sort of sand for their building work, or whatever...

fill and beach sand are often two different things.

 

[farouk]

fill and beach sand are often two different things.

Well, sounds good. This explains it, maybe...

 

[jasoncran]

Well, sounds good. This explains it, maybe...

one doesn't build on beach sand and expect that foundation to be stable. fill can come from simple dirt mounds and or demolished buildings who foundations are gone and the site isn't going to be rebuild or just some quarry that is simply dug up to make fill. we had one of those in my county.