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Lundse
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Nope, not something poetic about desert travels...

Science! Like the kind that inspired a reporter to write a science fiction opus about changing the desert!

This time, it is not the dunes which are analyzed with fluid-wave-mechanics, but more commonly-known fluid-behaviours which are being replicated with sand:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/06/sandgrains/

If nothing else, it's quite purty...
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Digging up old subjects!

Those videos are really cool :)


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD4PbSbx ... r_embedded[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsptPKzA ... r_embedded[/youtube]
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the bottom video sorta reminds me of how I picture the spice blow. :D
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Whoa ... that second one is WAY cool! :D
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Thats fantastic! Loved the second video it is how I imagined a spice blow.
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