Jᴀᴄᴜʀᴜᴛᴜ - Tʜᴇ Cᴀsᴛ Oᴜᴛ

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...

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]

the bottom video sorta reminds me of how I picture the spice blow.

Whoa ... that second one is WAY cool!

Thats fantastic! Loved the second video it is how I imagined a spice blow.