"The sand in Okinawa, Japan contains thousands of tiny "stars". These "grains of sand" are actually exoskeletons of marine protozoa, which lived on the ocean floor 550 million years ago.
A 1mm star!
On the beaches of Okinawa in Japan, the sand is mostly made up of foraminifera, a one-celled organism that feeds on the minerals found in sea salt.
You just have to take a handful of sand and look at it with a magnifying glass to realise that the grains are pretty little stars.
The same goes for Bermuda, where they also take on a pinkish colour due to algae.
These little stars are neither animals nor plants, and have been present on earth for 500 million years. These are not true starfish in the literal sense of the word, but protozoa, a mineral shell that can take many forms depending on the species, including a star. Their size generally varies from 38 mm to 1 mm."
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A 1mm star!
On the beaches of Okinawa in Japan, the sand is mostly made up of foraminifera, a one-celled organism that feeds on the minerals found in sea salt.
You just have to take a handful of sand and look at it with a magnifying glass to realise that the grains are pretty little stars.
The same goes for Bermuda, where they also take on a pinkish colour due to algae.
These little stars are neither animals nor plants, and have been present on earth for 500 million years. These are not true starfish in the literal sense of the word, but protozoa, a mineral shell that can take many forms depending on the species, including a star. Their size generally varies from 38 mm to 1 mm."
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"Ok, so a fun story.
A friend of mine was helpin me fell a tree that died on this property in a real tight spot. Big enough to possibly hit 3 different houses where it was standing, and it was a double trunk so basically 2 twin trees joined at one really wide trunk, then split about 5 feet up and 2 twins shooting up from there. So, it's not soemthing you want to mess up, and it's a bit complicated.
Well, it's a nerve wracking thing to climb a tall thin tree to thin it up and top it. Those guys that do it for a living are highly self confident. Today though, I saw something I couldn't beleive if it weren't happening in the backyard.
My friend's father came to help him.
65.
135 lean
Wearing basically crocs...
65. Remember that.
He climbed that tree like a damn spider monkey. No harness. No spikes. In crocs, from the ground. These trees were dead so some of the smaller branches just snapped off as he reached for them. This man is climbing this tree like he's still 14 years old.
He topped both those trees, and fell them safely without any damage. And I didn't think to record any of it. At all.
This is why I have no friends. 🤣
But damn man.
Age is just a number. Do what you most imagine yourself doing and be fearless about it."
GP
A friend of mine was helpin me fell a tree that died on this property in a real tight spot. Big enough to possibly hit 3 different houses where it was standing, and it was a double trunk so basically 2 twin trees joined at one really wide trunk, then split about 5 feet up and 2 twins shooting up from there. So, it's not soemthing you want to mess up, and it's a bit complicated.
Well, it's a nerve wracking thing to climb a tall thin tree to thin it up and top it. Those guys that do it for a living are highly self confident. Today though, I saw something I couldn't beleive if it weren't happening in the backyard.
My friend's father came to help him.
65.
135 lean
Wearing basically crocs...
65. Remember that.
He climbed that tree like a damn spider monkey. No harness. No spikes. In crocs, from the ground. These trees were dead so some of the smaller branches just snapped off as he reached for them. This man is climbing this tree like he's still 14 years old.
He topped both those trees, and fell them safely without any damage. And I didn't think to record any of it. At all.
This is why I have no friends. 🤣
But damn man.
Age is just a number. Do what you most imagine yourself doing and be fearless about it."
GP
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