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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The people run quick for quicksand.

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  • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes, my idea is that the sand is dense enough that anything lighter than a huge gigaton worm would not feel the fluidity. Like insects walking on water.

    Anyway, I just searched it, thinking that someone else might have an idea, and it turns out that the biological explaination is that they’re not worms, but legless lizards.

    uc.edu/…/uc-biologist-sheds-light-on-biology-of-d….

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    • laurelraven@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Maybe the sand is the opposite of a non-newtonian fluid, is solid at rest but becomes basically fluid with vibration

      Though I imagine sand would naturally behave this way if it isn’t packed too densely

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