July 19, 2011 Magnified Beach Sand
 

http://cellar.org/2011/sand-grains.jpg

Beach sand magnified to 250 times its real size

Here is some amazing microphotography by Dr Gary Greenberg who shows how beach sand grains look magnified to 250 times the real size.

This crystal of sand on the image below (in the middle) is surrounded by bits of coral, shell, and volcanic material.

http://todayilearned.co.uk/2011/07/1...ize/#more-2283

beautiful!

I grew up enjoying the beaches of southern Lake Michigan. Its really funny that this IOTD showed up today because I was just at the beach this Saturday watching the Gary Air Show with my Dad and I was wondering what the sand was composed of...figuring it wasn't shells and such.

So I just checked and found out that it is mostly minerals like quartz, feldspars, garnets, magnetite, and biotite. Heres a close up photo.

On the beaches of Maine, where I grew up , the grains of sand are a little bigger.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/21/33...6ccc2c28_o.jpg

Oooh, that reminds me of Schoodic Point...I need to find the pic of me on the rock with the water crashing around me.

On the beaches of Texas, the sand is covered with jellyfish and tar balls.

Jellyrabbits and tar babies. ;)

and yet, and yet... the "no-see-ums"

What is that thing? An alien spaceship?

Shipwreck. Tugboat, actually. It's been sitting there my entire life. I think it wrecked in the 50's.
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Calimama, thanks for stepping up to the image of the day plate recently. I have been enjoying them. :)

What exactly is hotlinking?

I saved the picture to my desktop and then used the manage attachment section here to post it.

If that is hotlinking, then what should I have done instead?

I think monster's post has the hotlink. Yours is an attachment.

yes, i hotlinked. but I can still see the img. Are you guys getting a "do not hotlink" thingie?

I changed it anyway, sorry if that was the case. lazy monster was in the middle of some tax returns.

Did it get fixed???? Looks like an attached image to me.

Pico, we're supposed to do it the way you did it, I think. I have a vague recollection of UT saying perhaps a few times not to hotlink. But a lot of people still hotlink.

UT? Guidance?

D'oh!

Funny, how I misread that.

I still have no idea how you hotlink, though...even after googling.

yes, i'm a bad, bad girl. if you link to people's images, you use their bandwidth. But it's quicker and easier. So tell me, is the problem fixed? I stole the pic and made it an attachment instead.

to hotlink, you put the url of the pic between [img] [/img] tags. And then you go to hell forever

When you find an image online, copy the image location (the url for the image).

In the cellar, click on mountains icon (has the popup text "insert image"). Paste the url in there. The image is now hotlinked in your message.

Web sites owners don't like this because you end up using their bandwidth. Every time someone looks at the page with your message on it, their browser goes to the original site to get the image.

:lol2:

REPANT, YOUR END IS IN SIGHT.

Um, er...I mean REPENT...


Oh never mind. :D

So why would we do it?

I still think UT should weigh in...what does he want people from other sites to do if taking images from here?

Does Pete Z have me on ignore?

HELLLLLOOOOOOOOOOO. Everyone has me on ignore, infi. I only exist in your imagination.....

I'm sorry, I can't hear you. You're on ignore.

Who is on ignore?

shhhhhhhh

[stage whisper/]monster is on universal unilateral international inclusive nonspecific ignore[/stage whisper]

No. It's just that it takes longer to be pedantic, so I missed your post whilst writing mine.

Besides are we not bffs? How could you ever doubt me?

:D

incognorito

never hotlink always attach

I like that. It sounds like a crispy corn tortilla snack that doesn't actually LOOK like a crispy corn tortilla snack. ;)

That would explain this handbasket, then.

Not yet. :D

Hot linking attracts angry picture owners. Always attach.

And yes, thanks for the pictures lately CAMama!

Thanx. I've just been lucky to come across some neat things lately.

hot links

but but but.... you then have to steal it in order to attach.......

:p:

didn't you get the memo?
Everything on the internet is free